view only link for everyone says Join Folder, Copy to Dropbox, Download. I DON'T want Join Folder.

 I have a newsletter and when they sign up, they are being led to a dropbox folder. I want them to be able to download, but I don't like that the join folder option is there, even if they cannot join. I can't figure out a way to remove that option though. How do I remove it? I did it with another pen name I have, but I don't remember what I did exactly.

Hi Fairsarae, thanks for bringing this to our attention.

Could you check what the permissions are for the shared link?

Is it possible that you created a shared link with edit permissions, meaning it would become a shared folder?

This will help me to assist further!

Hi JuliusIncestus, thanks for bringing this to our attention.

When you created the shared link, what this an edit link or a read-only link?

This will help me to assist further!

I believe it was an edit link. Is there any way to confirm this?

You can view the link from the file itself, or via this page on the site. and 'View link settings'. From there you can change it to view only.

I looked everywhere and cannot find links settings.

I would rather not manually create a new link and have to change them all since I've already updated my boobs. 

As you can see above, when I set a link for viewing a folder for my Patreon members, I am presented with these boxes above;  how do I go about removing the 'Join Folder' box?  I've verified in the folder settings that the link is view-only, with no link for editing.  I don't recall this happening until this month.

Hi personanongrata and JuliusIncestus ,

I am a Dropbox Product Manager for our sharing capabilities and am overseeing the introduction of our new shared link architecture.  You can read a bit more on the changes to Folder Links with View Only access in this post here.   The ability to Join Folder from a shared link is meant to allow for easier collaboration.  We did make sure to adjust link settings so you would be able to prevent Join Folder by disabling downloads and folder joins with one simple setting toggle. 

Note, only the view link is able to disable download/join.  Edit links, by their nature, are meant to allow recipients to collaborate so don't include this setting.

Now two things I see here.  First, it looks like you may be intending to create view links instead of edit links?  If that's true, then you might want to update your default sharing settings.  See this help center article for more details.  Second, JuliusIncestus in your case, you want to disable joining, but not downloads.  That is not possible right now.  I am curious though to hear a bit more about why?  Maybe you have a unique (or not-so-unique) situation, or maybe there is a better way to use Dropbox to meet your needs.

The folder is a free book. When someone signs up for my newsletter, I just want them to be able to download the files and not alter or add anything. That's it. Although, I somehow managed to make so that they have to ask my permission to join, so I guess that's something. But I would rather have it removed altogether, since it looks kind of unprofessional.