Dropbox document sharing link too long

[Trimom62]

I’ve having issues with the Dropbox links to documents as they are too long.

I’ve copied the link which is view only but the website I’m adding the link too (pimcore as an admin) won’t accept it as it’s way too at over 100 characters!

Please can anyone suggest how the link can be  shortened? 

Thank you 

[Rich]

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@Trimom62 wrote:

I’ve copied the link which is view only but the website I’m adding the link too (pimcore as an admin) won’t accept it as it’s way too at over 100 characters!

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You'll need to run it through a third-party link shortening service. There's no way to shorten the link with Dropbox.

[Trimom62]

Thank you for the reply. What a pain! 

[cvt1]

This is really unfortunate.  The lengths of your hyperlinks have recently increased dramatically.  This is very unfortunate as I build QR codes to them.  With the change in link length, the QR codes are not easily recognized by phone cameras.  I link to hundreds of documents and cannot reasonably run them all through 3rd party link shorteners.  I've used/paid for dropbox for 12 years.  This could be a dealbreaker.  Please consider a solution.  Maybe your own tinyurl tool or something.

[Rich]

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@cvt1 wrote:

Maybe your own tinyurl tool or something.

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Dropbox had their own link shortening service at one time, using the db.tt domain, but they discontinued it long ago.