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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!
Mark
Super User II
Super User IIThis isnt exactly new news I'm afraid.
And it was replaced a LONG LONG time ago by shared links which are pretty much Public Links BUT allowed in any location within your Dropbox: www.dropbox.com/help/167 (as per the link in the email)
Edit: apologies I have received my email now. I believed initially this was a change to the way HTML files were rendered not that they were going completely.
Mark wrote:
This isnt exactly new news I'm afraid.
And it was replaced a LONG LONG time ago by shared links which are pretty much Public Links BUT allowed in any location within your Dropbox: www.dropbox.com/help/167 (as per the link in the email)
This is NOT true.. PUBLIC links are STILL TO THIS DAY generated in WIN10 File explorer with a simple right click if you have the Dropbox app installed. IF they wanted to change the format of the LINKS, THAT would be the place to do it. THEY NEVER REPLACED Anything, they added a feature for files outside the public folder. The Public folder still installs with the Win10 app, and is prominent in the file explorer when you open Dropbox. Maybe they could change and say anything in the old public folder that is read only, and not a EXE file or such. That is purely a PDF, JPG, PNG, etc.. the links will still work on. But for them to kill the one feature most use in WIN10 is ridiculous.
