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blindbat84
Explorer | Level 3
3 years ago

I've been banned from sharing links. What can I do?

So, I have been banned from sharing links from Dropbox for years, I never did get any understanding of why, I never got an email about it and just dug back through to see if I had gotten anything, bu...
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stoeszt
New member | Level 2
2 years ago

I also have this problem. I realized that I shared a link with a large amount of files. I already removed the link from sharing. Is it possible to have sharing link access restored? Please let me know if there is anything else that I need to do in order to have sharing access restored.

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Mark
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2 years ago
stoeszt wrote:

Is it possible to have sharing link access restored? Please let me know if there is anything else that I need to do in order to have sharing access restored.

Bans will automatically remove, usually, after 24 hours for a first ban, however, each one gets longer. There is no way around this unless you pay to upgrade (and if you have upgraded already its just a wait it out I'm afraid)

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