Will a shared link be deleted, if the sender deletes the file from their account?

[LisaBB]

When sent a link from an external party and I "save to [my] dropbox", does that link stay there permanently or will it disappear if the external party deletes the file from their dropbox? Is there an optimum way to save material sent via links? We have dropbox for business.

[Hannah]

Hey @LisaBB, thanks for posting your query to our Community.

Indeed, if the person that sent you the link, deletes the file from their account, the link will break and you won't be able to access the file anymore.

As for downloading the files, you can either directly download them to your computer through the browser, or you can save them to your Dropbox. 

The latter will upload the files to your account, so you can manually download them from our website, or sync them to your computer, if you're using the Dropbox application.

So, it really depends on the amount/size of files. For very large files, we'd recommend syncing them.

Let me know if you have any questions!

[LisaBB]

Yes I’d like to know how to sync them to our account . I usually click on the link which opens the files and I choose save to my Dropbox, but some links recently disappeared

[Здравко]

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@LisaBB wrote:
... I choose save to my Dropbox, but some links recently disappeared

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Hi @LisaBB,

Person that shared link to you can remove link shared before or can remove file/folder shared before (after some time span the link will be invalidated too). Despite of, since you have saved the content in your Dropbox account, you still should be able access the content you saved before. 😉 Just take a look there, not on the link.

Hope this helps.