Dropbox share files publicly

See below for more information. Dropbox Basic free users. As of March 15, the Public folder in your Dropbox account has been converted into a standard folder. By default this folder is private to your account.

This transition will occur automatically. If you're a Basic user, and you created a website that directly displays HTML content from your Dropbox account, it will no longer render in the browser. The HTML content itself remains safe in Dropbox, and you can share it using any of our other sharing methods.

Dropbox accounts created after October 4, would not have had a Public folder. If you'd like to quickly share files you can use a shared link. Shared links work even if the person you're sharing with doesn't have a Dropbox account. Not using Dropbox yet? It was easy to use, and increased my production quality ten fold. Amazing work by Szilard. Jeff Roldan FocusFootage. Their templates are laid out in a way that makes it very easy to customize.

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Patrick Toland RecruitingTape. I believe this is a tribute to the amount of effort you folks put into designing your templates. Need help? DB also said that the person you invite to share the folder could invite others to come see the documents in that folder as well. At this point I backed out. I backed out of the shared folder with myself as quickly as I could.

Somewhere in the DB help questions and answers I read that there is a way that a person you share with does not have to download Dropbox but can go on the DB website somehow and see the shared files. Leo posted my concerns about DropBox. A computer guru friend of mine began reading about it for me and discovered a comment someone sent in saying they had such a hard time downloading DB that they signed up for Syncplicity. I decided to try that syncing website myself.

The functions of their sites are so completely similar that I decided that maybe some tech employees of DB must have left DB to start an improved site. I have been using Dropbox for about a year and have been very happy with it.

I use it to work on files from my work PC to my personal laptop. I worked on 3 documents all located in one particular folder inside of Dropbox on my laptop, all on the same day.

For those three docs only, I cannot get them to come over to the file on my PC. It almost acts like all the text is hidden. There is a fourth document in that folder, which is an Excel doc the others are Word and part of what I worked on that day also does not show up, but the rest of it is fine.

Do you have any ideas? Thank you! Rather, copy not move to another folder. Work from that copy. When you have completed work, copy not move back the new, edited, finished document to the DB folder, with the same name, thus overwriting the previous version. Or, if you want both versions, make sure you used a new file name or appended a version number to the name.

I believe that this might solve the problem of files that get messed up because of multiple versions in the folder. I had not appreciated the ability to synchronise between remote computers using Dropbox which really is a most worthwhile feature. I have been using Windows Live Mesh for this purpose and wonder if anyone has made a comparison between the two and would like to share their experience?

OR, use truecrypt vault. NEW FEATURE — auto-upload of camera pictures; plug camera into computer, and auto-play comes up, and an option exists there to automatically load files into dropbox; it loads the files locally and to the dropbox cloud. BUT, the software and the company seem very reliable. Dropbox share file link is very long and difficult to type when one cc to a paper doc. Is there a way to make the share link shorter? Randy There are several URL shortening services that work really well for that.

Ellie DropBox automatically syncs files between computers. These can be photos, songs, movies, programs or anything which can be stored in a a file. When files are placed in a DropBox folder on your computer, they automatically appear in the DropBox on the other computer which is associated with that DropBox account.

Evernote works a little differently, as you have to go through the Evernote program to upload or download files. I bought a business upgrade. I work with big computer models. Also, if you share enough data to a folder that non-upgraded users have access to, it can take their accounts over the free limit, causing serious sync problems. Another issue, that I have, is the amount of data transferred on my limited rural internet data account. But, I still applaud this product. As executor of an estate, I was able to share all of the ongoing documentation with the heirs by setting them up with links to a Dropbox folder, achieving transparency for all.

I wanted to mention that Dropbox, will start and run as soon as you power on your computer, so if you have an older computer with limited CPU you could notice it running slightly slower with Dropbox installed. Probably not an issue for most people.

Thanks for this interesting article. Why do you recommend DB rather than Google Drive, whose applications are about the same? Either will work well. Dropbox is perhaps the earliest, and most ubiquitous, and the one with which I have the most experience. BiitTorrent Sync does not require that the data be stored in the cloud.

Also, data is encrypted before it leaves the computer and is not decrypted until it reaches its destination. Because the encryption key is stored only on the sharing computers there is no chance that the data can be intercepted and viewed.

Like the original BitTorrent, the more computers you have sharing the data, the more efficient the updates. Shared files are also segmented so that if a part of a file changes, only the changed parts need to be retransmitted. I use BitTorrent Sync heavily here at home. After I registered on DB I got an email saying that I had recommended someone to share my account; their email address was unkown to me.

I checked my registration and found that the second I registered the invitation to share was logged without me doing anything. After going around with DB security they finally claimed that this person had gotten my email address and was lurking at DB for me to register.

Sounds rather strange and raises doubts about their security although they claimed that nobody could share my files with my permition. Do you know how Dropbox compares with the Onedrive App for Windows? Although you cannot upload folders directly to Onedrive, apparently you can with the App; and as I have 25 Gb free on Onedrive, compared with 2 Gb on Dropbox, would you agree that Onedrive looks like a better option for backups? In my experience, they both work well.

I personally sprung for the paid DropBox. I love Dropbox and use it to share with friends. SugarSync is my program of choice since it allows me to maintain my Windows Tree Structure and, instead of placing moving folders to a single Dropbox folder, I simply select the folders I wish to copy to the cloud. The selected folders are synced to the SugarSync Cloud. I signed up for Drop Box when I first heard about it a few years ago. I am sure it is as many say, a very useful tool, and helps many people in many ways.

Also, our IT department at work forbade us from using it for anything remotely related to our work. And I am sure they are much wiser than I am about this kind of stuff. My relatives have really poor computer skills and I generally helped them using remote software like teamviewer. Most of the time it involved updating an excel file which contained bank details or bank statements. This needed me to call them, get a user-id password combo and then update the file when both of us needed to be free and available.

Using dropbox eliminated the problem bypassing almost everything. However, I too used dropbox which had files which I did not want to share with the world or say anyone but just only between me and my devices which posed a big problem. Well, I created a different user account for them in Windows.

Dropbox synced their files when I logged in to their windows user account and mine when I used my user account. This is the setup that I have been using continuously for more than two years without any glitches. Is there any difference between Dropbox and Google — My drive. Also allows file access to my phone. There are a few small differences, mostly in sharing capabilities I prefer DropBox for that. Dropbox also allows you to upload files via their web interface. If you do find a feature you like in one, you can always have both installed on your machine.

I used to use DropBox together with OneDrive to have all of my data backed up on the cloud. They are very similar. Should I also be using Dropbox instead; are there hidden dangers with OneDrive?