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Problems sharing photos
I’ve shared photos in the past, but not successfully recently. Using Windows 10, I set up a folder to be viewed by anyone with a link to it, moved in some photo files, downloaded the link and emaile...
Hi again, Chris!
It sounds like you're doing a search for the link, instead of opening it.
You'll need to paste it in the URL box and hit "Enter" to open the link itself; hopefully that'll do the trick.
As for the permissions and who can access the folder, it will only show that it's shared, if you invite people to become members of the folder.
Creating and sharing a "view-only" link gives the recipients access to view the folder, but it doesn't allow them to become members of the folder, that's why you see "Only you" in "who can access".
Thank you for explaining “an incognito window”.
I tried creating a fresh link. When I hover over an icon that looks like two links of a chain, ‘Copy link to the folder name’ appears.
That’s the same link as I get when I <Click> on the permanent [Share folder] button, yet looks very different to the link I got previously from doing that!
I normally use Firefox, with Google searches, but the laptop happens to have a link to Opera, which is never normally used (perhaps my son used it years ago). That is also set up for Google searches. I put in the link, it added a couple of spaces after “%20” and it came up with:
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It didn’t find my folder.
When I tried the offered alternative of searching without the spaces it came up with:
“No results containing all your search terms were found.”
Also, you haven’t addressed the issue of the folder being shown as set to share, but the files within it being shown as “Only you” can access them.
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Dropbox Community ModeratorHi again, Chris!
It sounds like you're doing a search for the link, instead of opening it.
You'll need to paste it in the URL box and hit "Enter" to open the link itself; hopefully that'll do the trick.
As for the permissions and who can access the folder, it will only show that it's shared, if you invite people to become members of the folder.
Creating and sharing a "view-only" link gives the recipients access to view the folder, but it doesn't allow them to become members of the folder, that's why you see "Only you" in "who can access".
