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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 Public folder until
September 1, 2017. After that date the files in your Public folder will become private, and links to these files will be deactivated. Your files will remain safe in Dropbox.
If you’d like to keep sharing files in your Public folder, you can create new shared links. Just make sure to send the new URLs to your collaborators.
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It is one of the most useful features of the service for me as I use it to get links to single files that I can send to people without setting up shared folders and requiring them to have dropbox accounts.
(Save file to my public folder locally, syncs, right click, get publick link, paste. Doesn't get any easier than that.)
It's also useful for bb style forum posts where you can link to images with an easy tag.
With the public folder support being removed, is there going to be an alternative solution to allow easy public sharing of single files?
- 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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ColinC wrote:
It's a lot better than delivering the news at the same time as they remove it.Here is the big issues.. They are warning some BUT they still have the Public folder and how that folder creates ( Soon to be dead links ) as past of their app.. !! Which means many will still right click and get the link and use it up until the day the links no longer work. Its like one part of Dropbox isnt talking to the other and we as the end users are screwed.
- They are not warning "some", they are warning everyone who uses Dropbox. If they choose to not read their emails then that's their own fault. I still use this feature and gain from it, even if it'll be dead in a select amount of months. You're getting distracted from the real issue at hand.
JetWave wrote:
They are not warning "some", they are warning everyone who uses Dropbox. If they choose to not read their emails then that's their own fault. I still use this feature and gain from it, even if it'll be dead in a select amount of months. You're getting distracted from the real issue at hand.Actually if you are a new user to dropbox you wont be notified, and the "unsupported" public folder will show up under your dropbox folder in the file explorer.. The point I am making is not only are the screwing with millions of websites and millions of hosted images. The key function they are killing is still a functioning part of their **bleep** program.
Dropbox won't back down; they never do. The best thing to do is simply cancel your subscription.
Same thing for me! And worst! The new URL created the new way don't even work with my signage display! So I cannot use Dropbox anymore! :-(((
- Has anyone settled on an alternative service provider? If I have to go back and change ALL of those links, I want to do it only once, and to a provider I can depend on...
- "Actually if you are a new user to dropbox you wont be notified, and the "unsupported" public folder will show up under your dropbox folder in the file explorer.."
False. New users do not get a public folder. Why in the world would letting us use this feature a while longer be a bad thing? - Mark
Super User II
cdgoin wrote:
JetWave wrote:
They are not warning "some", they are warning everyone who uses Dropbox. If they choose to not read their emails then that's their own fault. I still use this feature and gain from it, even if it'll be dead in a select amount of months. You're getting distracted from the real issue at hand.Actually if you are a new user to dropbox you wont be notified, and the "unsupported" public folder will show up under your dropbox folder in the file explorer.. The point I am making is not only are the screwing with millions of websites and millions of hosted images. The key function they are killing is still a functioning part of their **bleep** program.
Actually new users do not, nor have they got, a Public folder now for many many years. You could request one was added if you were a paying user, but, I'm not sure if that still works. Therefore new users wont even know what this folder is nor will they therefore miss it.
edm81363 wrote:
Has anyone settled on an alternative service provider? If I have to go back and change ALL of those links, I want to do it only once, and to a provider I can depend on...
Microsoft isnt going anywhere anytime soon, Neither is Google so depending on if you use MS Office, or like Google I would pick between those two. I am a MS user ( I am even one of the 1%, the 1% with Windows Phone ) so I am going to move to OneDrive.Also I am pretty sure new members see the public folder in Win10. I could be wrong.. but a friend got a new laptop and setup an account and asked me what it was for. At least I thought it was a new account.
Fe wrote:
We're trying (perhaps in vain) to get Dropbox to take notice.... Like our page and help us get them message to dropbox that as paying customers, we do not want to lose the Public Folder! :triumph:
https://www.facebook.com/Dropbox-dont-kill-public-folders-1757807227875969/Plan of campaign:
1. "Like" the Facebook page above
2. Raise a ticket with Dropbox Customer "Support" about the Public folder
3. If you have a blog, write about this ridiculous 'breaking' of bits of the whole internet (broken links)
4. Be satirical and mocking - refer everywhere to "Dripbox" (or if you have better name, share it with us :) )
5. If you're a paid user and use the Public folder a lot, cancel your subscription - there are alternatives out there!
6. Don't stop campaigning until we either win, or cause Dripbox no end of hassle, embarrassment and notoriety
Can we do it? Yes we can!
