Ending support of public folder

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jelabarre wrote:
I have NO desire to have to make a "shared link" for EACH AND EVERY email I send out to a recruiter

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Why would you need to? Create one link and use the same one each time.

You don't send the same resume to multiple companies, dude. Generally speaking, you customize them for each, the cover page at the absolute least, but generally the contents as well, to emphasize for whatever position you're applying for. One blanket resume isn't considered acceptable these days. 

Hell, I'm a *trucker* and I still have to do unique resumes. 

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SolitareLee wrote:

You don't send the same resume to multiple companies, dude. Generally speaking, you customize them for each, the cover page at the absolute least, but generally the contents as well, to emphasize for whatever position you're applying for. One blanket resume isn't considered acceptable these days. 

 

Hell, I'm a *trucker* and I still have to do unique resumes. 

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That would require companies to actually put identifyable information on their listings.  In the IT field I find pretty much EVERY listing is obfuscated behind layers of contracting companies, recruiters, and outright vague and/or unrealistic job descriptions.  Customization would require knowing what/where the job is, and NO ONE wants to provide that level of information anymore.

(Why is it, with all the resources we have on the web, information has gotten worse, not better?  Too much noise, not much signal at all)

I am now having another problem with shared links.

I use shared links to create sports competititon tables (in the form of png or jpg files) which are hotlinked in the headers of a number of sports forums. When I used the Public Folder, it was a simple matter of overwriting the linked file e.g. sports_table.jpg with the updated file, and the hotilinks would automaticaly update to the new table.

However, what has sometimes been happening recently is that, when I update the file, the shared link URL for that file changes! This means the embedded link in the forum headers are no longer valid links, and the tables no longer display.

This state of affairs is intolerable. A solution that worked 100% reliably before has been buggered up by Dropbox "improvements". I'm not happy, I am going to have to find a solution other than Dropbox if this situation is not resolved really soon.

There needs to be a way to manually edit the URL of a Dropbox link so that I can make it exactly the same as all the existing links "in the wild". 

ETA: I have figured out what is causing this problem. Note, this is VERY IMPORTANT if you are doing sometihng like I am doing, which is regularly updating a linked image. Read the following carefully

If you share a linked image in Dropbox, so long as the image always exists in the same location you can Right Click > Copy Dropbox Link as many times as you like, and it will ALWAYS result in the same shared URL, BUT if you delete the file,  the link is immediately deleted, and even if you then put a file with exaclty the same filename in the same location, and Right Click > Copy Dropbox Link, it will create a different shared URL, and all your hotlinks will be broken

Dropbox needs to address and repair this bug. This behaviour is completely diffeent from how things worked with the Public Folder, which always created the same URL for the same filename.

So, until this issue is addressed (if it ever is) it is very important that you....

NEVER DELETE A SHARED FILE IF YOU EXPECT TO RESTORE THE SAME FILE WITH THE SAME LINK URL

I offer Dropbox  some possible solutions to this problem

1. Allow users to edit the "random charater string" of the URL of their linked files to restore accidentally deleted links.

2. Set up their algorithm so that a file with the exact same name, in the exact same location ALWAYS has the exact same URL

3. Allow links to exist for 24 hours after a file is deleted so that a replacement file will "pick up" the shared link

SPAM post by iollivier2?

not really a spam .. but a valid and cheap solution to all of us .. I spent hours researching and testing services, as direct links feature works different on each service.

OK. The reason I asked is because I'm a SPAM Moderator on a forum and the syntax of your post is what I see frequently: First an innocuous phrase used to get by filters followed by the text of the advertisement.

I would have probably posted something like: "We've all been impacted by the closure of Public Folders by Dropbox. Due the the impact on my usage I went and researched possible viable alternatives, and concluded that this is best for me: ..."

I see. Thanks for your explonation. Will try next time to be more descriptive :)