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Old 03-16-2017, 11:02 AM   #1
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Default All Public links from free Dropbox accounts are now dead

Yeah... like the title says. All free Dropbox users, like myself, should have gotten an email about it in December and a reminder a couple of weeks ago.

Literally every public link to a file on your Dropbox you've ever posted is now dead. Seriously. Like, ten years' worth for some people.

They've got a new way to make public links (right-click a file in one of your Dropbox folders and choose Copy Dropbox Link, or find the Share button on the Dropbox site), but by default it doesn't work for embedding images via BBCode.

i.e.

Code:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/yodurcvc9it85wi/midi%20editor%20loop%20point.gif?dl=0
The good news is, you can edit the URL to fix that, by changing the 0 at the end to a 1:

Code:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/yodurcvc9it85wi/midi%20editor%20loop%20point.gif?dl=1
So there you go. Have fun editing hundreds of posts.
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Old 03-16-2017, 11:23 AM   #2
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What a shit move.
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Old 03-16-2017, 04:02 PM   #3
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Bit crappy.

Sounds like a fun cockos coffee break code challenge:

Find all suitable Dropbox links in forum and fix the last digit!
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Old 03-16-2017, 08:04 PM   #4
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Find all suitable Dropbox links in forum and fix the last digit!
It's a completely different link now.

The original problem they had was that if you had a link to someone's public file:

users/BenK/sample.mp3

You could access anything else in their public folder by guessing the filename:

users/BenK/important business stuff.doc

This fixes that issue, since the URLs are completely different now, but there are a number of ways they could have left the old links active.
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Old 03-16-2017, 08:21 PM   #5
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well that's a great move then, but a bit of an inconvenience.
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Old 03-16-2017, 08:44 PM   #6
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Ok...

My important document was trumps tax returns anyway

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