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Gloss
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3 years ago
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Personal Details and Dropbox Access

I opened a link I was sent by someone. At the time, I didn't know it was a link connected to their dropbox folder.

 

Can the person who sent it see the name of my dropbox account because I took a look at the link? I haven't opened any files nor downloaded anything.

 

It looks like their dropbox is public because I logged out and was still able to see the various files in their folder.

 

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    Rich
    3 years ago
    Gloss wrote:

    Can the person who sent it see the name of my dropbox account because I took a look at the link?

    It sounds like they sent you a shared link, which doesn't give them any information about the people using the link.

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    3 years ago
    Gloss wrote:

    Can the person who sent it see the name of my dropbox account because I took a look at the link?

    It sounds like they sent you a shared link, which doesn't give them any information about the people using the link.

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