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Christian D.
Explorer | Level 4
3 years ago

Link breaks on file update. How to avoid?

Sharing links to files that may be updated is an important functionality. There are several discussions on the subject (at least this one and this one). Unfortunately, the problem persists (and these...
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Christian D.'s avatar
Christian D.
Explorer | Level 4
3 years ago

Any update on this? When, on a website, I create a link <a href="./some_file.pdf">The PDF</a>, the link points to "some_file.pdf", regardless how I update it on the server. Now, I'd like href to point to "some_file.pdf" somewhere on my dropbox, regardless of how I update the said file. Seems reasonable, no?

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Jay
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3 years ago

As of yet, there are no updates on the changes to the shared links. Updating files directly on the site results in no loss of shared link. 

 

Opening a file on the machine, which has a shared link already, then editing and saving should retain the link. However, certain apps might save files a different way, again, deleting the original file and recreate it, thus deleting the shared link.

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