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hypnocoach
Helpful | Level 5
9 years ago
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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...
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  • Jane's avatar
    Jane
    9 years ago

    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's avatar
Rich
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9 years ago
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.

 

 

 

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Jonathan H.1
Collaborator | Level 9
9 years ago

@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...

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