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Ending support of public folder
Just heard from dropbox that support for the public folder is ending.
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As a result, we’ll soon be ending support for the Public folder. Dropbox Pro users will be able to use the Publ...
- LGM - the issue is that people are abusing it and causing issues for everybody by getting the Dropbox domains blacklisted which cause emails to fail and downloads to be blocked by firewalls etc.
In terms of changing the extension, sorry, no idea how you would do that!
This I fear is disasterous news for anyone (like me) who has used the public folder links to post images on web forums.
Web forum software, it seems when using the [img]....[/img] codes , accepts the "https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com......." format of current public folder links , but rejects the "https://www.dropbox.com......" format of current links from any other folder.
This means the horrible prospect of not only the loss of many years of input across multi forums (with the upcoming negation of 'old' links to the Public Folder) but the need to seek out alternate on-line storage for the future!
Dima
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Super User alumniYou can still create those links - just need to change the hostname to get a direct link instead of the HTML page.
Create a regular shared link to an image; you'll get a URL that looks like this:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ynzjfwe0lfdlr2e/cat.jpg?dl=0
Then, replace "www.dropbox.com" with "dl.dropboxusercontent.com", and you have:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/ynzjfwe0lfdlr2e/cat.jpg?dl=0
You can then use it in [img] codes and so on.
Are you 1000% sure about that?
That the files with https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com and http://dl.dropbox.com will continue to work past Sept9th?
My account automatically renews tomorrow, I could cancel it right now.
If they fail to honor the contract I have with them to provide public links of my stuff, surely this is FRAUD?
- Forgot to add I have 22,000 items stored in Dropbox, all images or KMZ files used on web pages.
I just copied them back to my hard drive, just in case.
muzzy wrote:Are you 1000% sure about that?
That the files with https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com and http://dl.dropbox.com will continue to work past Sept9th?
My account automatically renews tomorrow, I could cancel it right now.
If they fail to honor the contract I have with them to provide public links of my stuff, surely this is FRAUD?
I would cancel and then email them asking if they want me to come back.Please don't do this. You will kill your company and many internet communities will suffer as well.
IF this is ever read by corporate:
Your letter about "looking to improve the Dropbox sharing experience" was the same cheap BS that has become prevalent lately. But you know that.
You also are aware of the harm you are causing with this business decision, but you surely had your reasons. That has to be profit - somehow. Ads? less traffic? We don't know.
You may call this naive but if you left the public folder for Pro & Business users you'd have a lot of those free users ponying up. You have a huge amount of free subscribers by the short hairs.
Hasn't even started working for me.. I've just tried with a shared image to a forum, once moved it disappears from the forum.
Thank you Dima, you're a lifesaver. Your solution worked beautifully.
Can't find this beautiful solution. Please, save my life too
- Paul, Dima provided a way to link directly to graphics files, which is exactly what I needed to do (I use some graphic files in my Public folder to link my email signatures to):
Dima wrote:
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You can still create those links - just need to change the hostname to get a direct link instead of the HTML page.
Create a regular shared link to an image; you'll get a URL that looks like this:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ynzjfwe0lfdlr2e/cat.jpg?dl=0
Then, replace "www.dropbox.com" with "dl.dropboxusercontent.com", and you have:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/ynzjfwe0lfdlr2e/cat.jpg?dl=0
You can then use it in [img] codes and so on.
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There was a rumor that Dropbox would also "turn off" the dl.dropboxusercontent.com URL, but this solution worked for me today when I updated my signature files. Hopefully, Dropbox won't mess with the user content URL now!
-brian
