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My public links are no longer working
All my public links are suddenly not working. I noticed that the previously copied link URL that I've given to people to access the file had "https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com" as the first part of t...
Hey hypnocoach,
Thanks for getting in touch here!
Please note that public links will no longer function as of March 15, 2017 for Basic users and on September 1, 2017 for Plus and Dropbox for Business users. You can find more information here: https://www.dropbox.com/help/16.
Hope this helps you clarify! If there's anything else you need to ask, please let me know.
Kind regards,
JaneA
Rich
Super User II
Super User II
Jonathan H.1 wrote:
Furthermore, I'm still at a loss as to how to make images post in forums. I've tried dl=1, dl=0, raw=1? How?
By using a share link with ?raw=1 at the end.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/0skuwdlhg6q4fol/History%20of%20GIF.gif?raw=1
Not ALL forums will support a link that doesn't end with an actual file extension, but most do. Personally, I've only ever run into one site that wouldn't work.
**bleep**, seems raw1 doesn't work on this particular forum.
What's more, there's no way to generate links from within Explorer/Finder any more, you have to edit them manually and you have to do them one by one whereas before I could do a few dozen at a time :(
Really sad to cripple the software in this way and break millions of existing links :(
- Rich
Jonathan H.1 wrote:
... there's no way to generate links from within Explorer/Finder any more
Yes, there is. When you right-click on a file, Copy Dropbox link will create a share link to the file and place it in your clipboard. Paste it where you need it and change ?dl=0 if needed.
- Yo Rich, thanks once again for mentioning the new sharing feature. How long do you think those links will work for? Reckon Dropbox will pull another shared link system out of their behinds and delete all these links?
@Rich: So whereas before it would generate usable links, now it generates a link that you have to paste somewhere, hit several keystrokes to edit and then doesn't even always work? When it does work, it takes more than twice as long every time. And you have to do it individually for every single file.
Hardly the same functionality...
