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JoeZip
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2 years ago

Can we allow users to only view and download files or folders shared to them?

We have a website that has about a dozen links to our Dropbox account. These links are to multiple folders containing hundreds of printable music files and set lists in PDF format. We’d like to allow...
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Jay
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2 years ago

Hi JoeZip, thanks for bringing this to our attention.

 

If you're sharing links to folders on your account, then you can mark those folders as read-only, meaning that no other users can edit files within those folders.

 

Users shouldn't be able to request to join read-only shared links as of March 2024. 

 

Keep me posted!

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