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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!
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.
