My "can view" link to a file is still allowing others to edit

Save button on bottom

Save button on bottom takes me to "sign in". This is not what was happening yesterday

Yesterday. An edit was saved to the folder and overrode the original. Below you can see what was saved. It is a flipped copy (note address is backwards) because I experimented to see if an edit could be saved.

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What did I miss? What is supposed to happen?

nanlouwoo wrote:

Yesterday. An edit was saved to the folder and overrode the original.

The only way that would happen is if the person editing the file was logged in. If this was you testing the link, then you were likely still logged in with your own account.

You can even see in your own screenshot that in order to save the file, Dropbox wants you to login or sign up. The Save button also appears to be greyed out because you're not signed in.

I've just tested this again with a JPG image to more closely match your example. I load the view-only link into a private browsing session while not logged in. The image looks like this:

I make some adjustments to the image and I get a Save button at the bottom, similar to your example. Again, it tells me that I need to log in or sign up to save.

Clicking the Save button at the bottom closes the editing tools and shows me the final image.

At this point the image is still not saved, because if I look at the original while logged in on my other browser, the image is still the original with no edits saved.

Additionally, if I refresh the private session where I'm not signed in and made the edits, I'm asked to confirm that I want to leave the page because the file may not be saved.

If I click Leave page so the page is refreshed, I'm back to the original image again.