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Sharing links in Excel spreadsheet - opens dropbox but not link
Hi I hope someone can help with this probably simple problem. I have an excel spreadsheet that I want to share links to documents with. I find my document in dropbox, right click, share link get the address and then post this into excel as a hyperlink. Once the hyperlink opens it opens my dropbox to a blank page not to the…
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Problems with linking Excel files in Dropbox for Business
Hi, We have just changed from local fileserver to Dropbox for Business, and have now ran into trouble with linked Excel documents. I want to fetch and display values of a certain cells in one excel document on Dropbox into another excel document on dropbox. The problem now being that the reference is made to the file…
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Can I get notifications of changes made to my files?
Hi, we have a folder on dropbox with a couple people at work. I shared the whole folder but there is only 1 item in it so far. If I change file or add a comment it should give a notification to everyone right? But if the look at notifications in the dropbox windows icon it doesn't show any notifications, just that I was…
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Hide folders from view on mobile app
Here is my use case: I have a large number of files and folders on my DropBox account that I want access to from my mobile devices. I want my wife to have access to a single folder (the camera uploads folder and it's sub folders which I use for organization) and no other folders or files. It seems some people are trying to…
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Finding the new files added to a shared folder?
I use a shared folder with a client so that they can easily send me .jpg photo files. The client creates a sub-folder for a ****** and procedes to put 100 files into it. After syncing has completed, I go about processing the photos. Then, about an hour later, the client adds 25 more files to the folder with creation times…
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Can no longer host images using Dropbox?
I've been hosting an image for my PayPal checkout banner using the Public folder but today it is no longer showing up on PayPal. I assume that's because the Public folders are no longer actually public. I tried moving the image file over to another folder and set the permissions to "anyone with the link" can view it. I…
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Files with photos became a pdf file
I just created a file of photos to share with friends. I had everything the way i wanted it, but when i shared the link it became a .pdf file. That makes no sense! Has anyone had this problem and if so, what did i do wrong?
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How many people can download a file I shared before getting an error?
Hi, I have a file of 2 MB on dropbox and I am quite active on social media. In case of going it viral (it might have 100-500 people downloading it at the same time), how many people can download it simultaneously without getting a timed out request or other errors (related to dropbox api). Thanks.
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Moving dropbox sync folder location
When moving the location of my Drpbox sync folders from one drive to another, I get the following error message: "Couldn't move junction point: C:\Users\.....\Dropbox\.drpbox.cache\...\placeholder.avi". and the move process is stopped.
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Help - need to share files privately - group members want to be anonymous
How can I share a document with a group of people and not have each member of the group see the other members? I have a very large file I need comments on - but my group members do not want to share their email addresses with others so they prefer to remain anonymous to the group. As it is a very large file and I have 20…
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List of shared files
How can I have a list of my shared files if there as now listed in the "links" section or in the "share" section ??
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Copy public link is not working on dropbox.com
Hi I've been using that COPY PUBLIC LINK from dropbox.com for years and at first it used to actually copy it to the windows copy buffer as it should. Over the past couple of months it would pop the address as it should but it stopped being able to automatically copy to the copy buffer, but luckily i could still do it…
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I am getting an error 403 when accessing a link through an email. Can you help?
I clicked on a link from an email to open a file and it took me to an error page that said I should sign in. I am signed in. I was able to open this file two days ago and now I can't. Help, please.
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Why does Dropbox ask for your computer password
Hi, I just came across this blog post detailing some, shall we say, unorthodox ways Dropbox is circumventing OS X security features and tricking users into sharing their admin password: http://applehelpwriter.com/2016/07/28/revealing-dropboxs-dirty-little-security-hack/ I found the same happened on my system (OS X…
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Saving URL to act as a URL Redirect?
I would like to be able to make a share link to a Dropbox file that itself contains a URL such that when the user executes the first link in their browser the end result is that the URL stored in the DB file gets executed through the domino effect of link calling link. How can I best accomplish this? I tried using the DB…