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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!
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
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
Any suggestion that says the solution to the problem that Dropbox created, is to simply change public folder links to shared links, has completely missed the point. Over the past several years, I've posted maybe 2000 links on hundreds of web sites to the files I have on my Dropbox account. The i.d.i.o.t.s. at Dropbox changed their system a.s.s. backwards from what they should have done, by breaking all exisitng links, instead of redirecting them. They should have allowed us to create virtual links from existing ones to prevent breaking the millions of links posted by the entire Dropbox user base.
I've found a way to get a direct Microsoft OneDrive download link
If you use the get link feature of onedrive, Microsoft returns a link that IS NOT a direct download link. It's a sort of pseudo link that opens up the OneDrive web page where the file is located, and then starts downloading the file from that page. To get a link that only downloads the file without opening the OneDribe page, do the following.
1. Open up the OneDrive web site.
2. Open up the folder where the desired file is located.
3. Select the file from the displayed files.
4. Right Click on the file and select "EMBED" from the menu choices.
5. The status window opens that asks to Generate an Embedded link for a Blog or Webpage (this may not show if a link has previously been generated).6. Click the Generate Button to get an embedded link.
7. The embedded link will look something like this:
<iframe src="https://onedrive.live.com/embed?cid=31E8FBE8628B7659&resid=31E8FBE8628B7659%21322&authkey=ABadePfzf2SGhsg" width="98" height="120" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe>
8. Delete the leading and trailing text to only leave the basic link info.
https://onedrive.live.com/embed?cid=31E8FBE8628B7659&resid=31E8FBE8628B7659%21322&authkey=ABadePfzf2SGhsg
9 Change the "EMBED" command to "DOWNLOAD"
https://onedrive.live.com/download?cid=31E8FBE8628B7659&resid=31E8FBE8628B7659%21322&authkey=ABadePfzf2SGhsg
10 then paste the fixed link into your document.When my Premium account expires this winter, I'm dropping Dropbox.
NFAToys wrote:Any suggestion that says the solution to the problem that Dropbox created, is to simply change public folder links to shared links, has completely missed the point. Over the past several years, I've posted maybe 2000 links on hundreds of web sites to the files I have on my Dropbox account. The i.d.i.o.t.s. at Dropbox changed their system a.s.s. backwards from what they should have done, by breaking all exisitng links, instead of redirecting them. They should have allowed us to create virtual links from existing ones to prevent breaking the millions of links posted by the entire Dropbox user base.
I've found a way to get a direct Microsoft OneDrive download link
If you use the get link feature of onedrive, Microsoft returns a link that IS NOT a direct download link. It's a sort of pseudo link that opens up the OneDrive web page where the file is located, and then starts downloading the file from that page. To get a link that only downloads the file without opening the OneDribe page, do the following.
1. Open up the OneDrive web site.
2. Open up the folder where the desired file is located.
3. Select the file from the displayed files.
4. Right Click on the file and select "EMBED" from the menu choices.
5. The status window opens that asks to Generate an Embedded link for a Blog or Webpage (this may not show if a link has previously been generated).6. Click the Generate Button to get an embedded link.
7. The embedded link will look something like this:
<iframe src="https://onedrive.live.com/embed?cid=31E8FBE8628B7659&resid=31E8FBE8628B7659%21322&authkey=ABadePfzf2SGhsg" width="98" height="120" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe>
8. Delete the leading and trailing text to only leave the basic link info.
https://onedrive.live.com/embed?cid=31E8FBE8628B7659&resid=31E8FBE8628B7659%21322&authkey=ABadePfzf2SGhsg
9 Change the "EMBED" command to "DOWNLOAD"
https://onedrive.live.com/download?cid=31E8FBE8628B7659&resid=31E8FBE8628B7659%21322&authkey=ABadePfzf2SGhsg
10 then paste the fixed link into your document.When my Premium account expires this winter, I'm dropping Dropbox.
If you don't want the online DropBox/MS Office Online stuff, then at the end of each shared link there is a ?dl=0 link. Just change those to ?dl=1 (from zero to one). If it's not at the very end then just add it in yourself - it will just prompt for download.
Generating shared links should take considerably less time than changing storage providers.- Rich
Super User II
NFAToys wrote:
If you don't want the online DropBox/MS Office Online stuff, then at the end of each shared link there is a ?dl=0 link. Just change those to ?dl=1 (from zero to one).
Or change it from ?dl=0 to ?raw=1 if you want to embed an image (or other file type) on a web page, forum, social post, etc.
Yes, Yes, Yes. This is one of the biggest disservises a company has ever implemented on it customers and millions of other people seeking knowledge.
The links of millions of photos, musical compositions, illustrations and other educational materials on websites and forums, placed through millions of manhours of work of Dropbox customers have now been broken, wasting the effort of every DropBox customer (millions) over a decade or two. Just as outrageous are the millions of people trying to entertain or educate themselves at these websites, blogs, and forums and not being able to use the links to millions of pieces of information.
This is truly one of the worst moves a company has ever made in the history of the internet. They could have left these links intact and started the new policy going forward.
Between this move and DropBox's excessive use of system resources that has been ongoing for years without a technical fix, I am finally going to move to another cloud service. I also use Box, iCloud, and One Drive and all function much better than DropBox. Before the year is out, I am migrating my files and cancelling my premium service. I am so angry at DropBox for breaking all my links at forums.
Simply cannot believe how Dropbox could have made such a devastating decision that wasted millions of hours of their customers' time and prevents the dissemination of millions of pieces of important and creative work intended for the education and betterment of the world wide population.
Tom
There never has been and there never will be a guarantee that ANY company will forever give you access to their services in the cloud. ALL of them, without exception will change the rules when ever they think it is to their advantage. Companies like Adobe and others have determined that they can make more money with software subscription licensing rather than selling a permanent license. As advancing technology makes it possible, human greed will always take advantage thereof. If the needs of the customer happen to be congruent with maximum profit, then all is well. If not, then customers must suck it up and try to find an alternate solution if possible. Just like you, everybody should learn to utilize multiple solutions, so that if one company screws you, hopefully the others won't do so right away.
