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Robert B.59
8 months agoExplorer | Level 4
With a Dropbox shared link, is there a way to change the content without changing the URL link?
Suppose I create a 'read only' shared link for a file.
Anyone who has the URL link can access the contents of the file
but cannot modify the contents of the file. Now suppose I give
the URL li...
Mark
Super User II
8 months agoAs long as you replace the file identically (i.e. open and save the file in Word, for example, on your computer and just hit SAVE) it will just update. If you delete it first, however, then the link would break.
A better work around, more stable, is to share a link to a folder and update / edit files inside that :)
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