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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!
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.
