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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
The link still shows 404 for me.
I've checked my spam box and emails and that my email address is correct but did not receive any notification about this.
I only discovered when I asked someone to go to a link I had published if they needed help and they told me it didn't work.
Personally it is a great inconvenience and yet another reason not to stay with or recommend Dropbox. Any links I've supplied to small programs to help people out now longer work. Thank you Dropbox. Luckily I've just bought a QNAP NAS box which allows me to do this.
But WHY Dropbox - OK it stops people using your service which I appreciate someone has to pay for the bandwidth. So may be make it chargable but don't just withdraw it without notification. I assume also if you change a file now to a newer version the link will change which it didn't previously. Sorry but it seems a wrong move to me unless you are trying to get rid of customers.
Has anyone here had any success with service that move files between cloud services? I'm planning my move away from Dropbox when they kill the public folder for paid users.
I've got a few hundred gigs to move. I suppose I could sync them all to my computer and reupload but it's just a pain.
- Rich
Super User II
Matthew T.27 wrote:
My error for thinking a file hosting service could be used for, ya know, hosting filesYour error for thinking Dropbox is a file hosting service. It's a file synchronization service with sharing capabilities. It has never advertised itself as a hosting service.
Take a shot...
Has anyone here had any success with service that move files between cloud services?
I've heard decent things about both Mover.io and MultCloud, but have never used them personally.
Rich - ridiculous. They advertised a feature promoting it as a way of hotlinking files without any warning that it may be taken away at a moment's notice and without providing any means of converting potentially thousands of broken links strewn across the internet. It would be trivial to find a way to avoid this link rot tragedy yet they don't care.
dropbox links are dead. and all usefull info for lots of internet users is lost.
as example
the forum threads have thousands of views. and i cant fix.
http://forum.toribash.com/showpost.php?s=aabdc6432a20bb2cb3bf982dd199ddcb&p=3820772&postcount=1
http://forum.toribash.com/showthread.php?t=382961
and i even cant remember all such threads.
Thanx a lot. and bye.
