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ae2rigc
New member | Level 2
10 years ago
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Ending support of public folder

Just heard from dropbox that support for the public folder is ending.   --------- As a result, we’ll soon be ending support for the Public folder. Dropbox Pro users will be able to use the Publ...
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  • Mark's avatar
    Mark
    10 years ago
    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!
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anonymous
9 years ago
Dropbox gives these instructions for sharing a link:

"Share a link

Sign in to dropbox.com.
Hover your cursor over the file or folder you'd like to share and click Share when it appears.
If a link hasn't been created, click Create a link.

If a link was already created, click Copy link.
The link will be copied to your clipboard. You can then paste it to an email, message, or wherever people can access it."

Well, this last sentence is not true. If the link is used to post a link to a bulletin board, the picture does not appear. If it is used as is it doesn't bring up just the picture, but a web page with options to comment etc.

I just don't get it!
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anonymous
9 years ago
Did some testing with One Drive and G-Drive. The links will not open in vBulletin forum software when embedded ( [IMG] link [/IMG] So no Joy there either.

If Dropbox don't accommodate us, we appear to be screwed unless we get our own web hosting site or are there other options?

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