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Ending support of public folder
Just heard from dropbox that support for the public folder is ending.
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As a result, we’ll soon be ending support for the Public folder. Dropbox Pro users will be able to use the Publ...
- LGM - the issue is that people are abusing it and causing issues for everybody by getting the Dropbox domains blacklisted which cause emails to fail and downloads to be blocked by firewalls etc.
In terms of changing the extension, sorry, no idea how you would do that!
Well thank you Dropbox for changing the rules after the game started. It looks like come September 2017 I'll be dropping Dropbox since you no longer will let me have the Public Folder I signed up for when I subscribed many years ago. I have years of public links in thousands of posts to dozens of web forums that link to pictures and short videos in my public folder. With one broad arbitrary decission, and without asking your paying custoers how it will effect them, you've negated my only reason for being a Dropbox customer. And you have not provided any workable option for myself and the others on this forum who you have placed in the same boat. I can't begin to describe how angry I am right now for this brain dead decision you have forced down our throats.
Same here - we have 100s of links thoughout a few websites to content on Dropbox in the Public folder. Can you PLEASE not remove the public folder? Or at least let the existing links still function?
This could takes hours and hours of work, and we'd still leave some holes. Please Dropbox, reconsider or find another solution!
This is an awful stain on Droobox, I agree with the other posts, I have hundreds maybe thousands of links to the public folder. And customers, suppliers andcollaborators pass them on.
This is a good reason not to use cloud storage for professional people. Its ok as a toy for amateurs.
I need to control my business. It is not right that a cloud supplier should control my business by making arbitrary changes.
Do droobox realise the financial consequencies of this move on customers?? Our data is valuable to us. It is a terrible indictment on dropbox business values (or lack of)
rileyph wrote:
This is an awful stain on Droobox, I agree with the other posts, I have hundreds maybe thousands of links to the public folder. And customers, suppliers andcollaborators pass them on.....
Do droobox realise the financial consequencies of this move on customers?? Our data is valuable to us. It is a terrible indictment on dropbox business values (or lack of).
I agree complely, and I can't even begin to imagine how catastrohic this decision will be for individuals, professionals and businesses that have been actively using the public folder since there is NO feasible way to replace ALL the links created and shared by heavy users of the Public Folder.
This could have profound (and costly) business implications for many of Dropbox's Pro (professional) users, and I sincerely hope Dropbox will consider the terrible impact of this decision.
In the meantime, on a practical level, for those of us who do want to go ahead and begin proactively "fixing" all the links that Dropxbox will eventually break, I have a couple of questions:
> Based on a review of my "share link" options in my Dropbox folder, it looks like I can't even begin using the new standard "Copy Dropbox Link" option in my Public Folder, so there's no way for me to begin fixing the links without MOVING all my public files into another non-public folder.
Is this correct?
> If so, it looks like there are only 2 less-than-satisfactory options for users right now:
(1) MOVE all public files to a new, non-public folder (sacrificing your existing folder structure), generate new links for every previously public document, and then replace the old public links with the new shared link. (Obviously NOT feasible for heavy users of the Public Folder.)
(2) KEEP all public files in their current public location (in order to preserve the existing folder structure), and wait to generate new links until after the Public folder is made private (on 09.01.17). (This of course means there will be a potentially LONG period of downtime while we have to change all the broken links manually -- and this, again, is obviously NOT feasible for heavy users of the Public Folder.)
Is this correct, or am I missing something?
They will only change if mass cancellation causes to lose $, already started to migrate to google cloud storage!!
