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I want to share PDFs from my Dropbox for others to preview
I want to use the URLs of some PDFs held in a Dropbox folder to load them in a Google sheet. My hope is that when a member of the Dropbox business team clicks it, it will open in preview mode in the browser.
If I copy the link address, this is not the address of the individual file I right-clicked - it only loads the whole folder address, not the individual files within it.
How do I derive a url for the individual PDF so it can be previewed?
thanks for any help!
James
2 Replies
- Hannah
Dropbox Staff
Hey JamesWB, thanks for posting to the Dropbox Community today!
The URL links of the files that are saved in your Dropbox account, won't open for others if they're not logged in to your account.
What you can do, is create shared links for each individual file.
This will allow the recipients to click the links and open/preview the files.
However, keep in mind that you'd be sharing a copy of the files, not the original ones, so if the recipients save the files and edit them, the edits won't reflect on the original files in your account.
Let me know if you have any questions.
OK thanks. Seems fairly clunky, but yeah, OK.
