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Off-Topic Boards => General Discussion => Topic started by: ccexplore on August 01, 2014, 10:21:09 AM
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I see on IRC that people can make direct links to files they put in DropBox:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/43603680/themon0lith.txt
But when I try it out just now with a new free account, the only option I have is to create "share" links for files I upload to DropBox, which look like this:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/3pfxw1g4dmlmbbx/DirectLinkPleaseYouStupidPieceOfCrap.txt
This opens up a preview/download page which is not the same as a direct link (which matters if the file in question is HTML, though to be fair, I suspect DropBox probably won't support direct links to HTML files anyhow even with the first kind of link). What do I need to do to get the first kind of link? Is that feature still supported by DropBox with new accounts?
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What I do is, I go to my shared folder (the one called 'Public') in a file browser, right-click on the file I want to link and in the context menu that pops up I can pick "copy public link".
If that doesn't work, maybe you can figure out your user ID somehow and then create the link manually.
I have Dropbox version 2.10.3. I don't remember when I signed up for it though.
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Ah I see, I didn't realize it has to be done through the file system and not purely from the web browser interface. I'll give that a try later, although currently I wound up hosting the HTML file using 000webhost.com which seems to be okay.
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on another note; sometimes you may right click and the proper options don't pop up especially if you just put the file in there. Click away and wait a moment then try again. At least this happens to me.