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Does anyone else think this can be easily fixed with a Powershell (or batch) script? Preconfigure it with your public folder url "id" and make it so it copies the generic url to the clipboard (complete with filename) and just appends a "?dl=1" at the end. Make a shortcut to the script and send it to the context menu.

Don't say Dropbox creates a unique token for every link made, which means in that case, we'd have to create a link through Dropbox first. Anyone see any huge flaws in this? (first post)




The browser will treat the link as a download instead of content. You click on an image link, it downloads the image instead of displaying the image.

Seriously breaks using the folder as a simple content server.


sigh, i just realised HTML files would just download and not open this way. Why Dropbox, why?


It seems that although the id of a certain folder always stays constant, every file in that folder would have a random string before its filename which makes this method useless. I should learn to think more thoroughly.




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