[mikeplus1]

No more public folders in Dropbox after July 31, 2012?

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Dropbox to kill off public folders? | Internet & Media - CNET News

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[jrohland]

That sucks. I don't use that feature a lot but, it is very nice to have when I want to temporarily distribute a large file. Of course, that is probably why they are dropping it.

[guerllamo7]

Hmmm. I wonder why they are giving up this competitive advantage?

The article also states that if you already have a shared folder it will continue to work. Is that correct?

[DenverRalphy]

You can still share any files you wish. They're just removing the ability to label a folder as public.

If I had to speculate as to why they decided on the change, I'd guess it's probably because too many users are using public folders as repositories for images, html files, etc.. as a simple impromptu file-server for websites, and it's generating a huge load on their servers.

[johnenglish]

You can still share any files you wish. They're just removing the ability to label a folder as public.

If I had to speculate as to why they decided on the change, I'd guess it's probably because too many users are using public folders as repositories for images, html files, etc.. as a simple impromptu file-server for websites, and it's generating a huge load on their servers.

Yeah, it's not a big deal. You just right click any file you want to share and choose DropBox --> Get Link.

[SCrid2000]

It actually is a pretty big deal. It kills the ability to do this: http://forums.crackberry.com/tips-ho...ropbox-564060/ - you get the error in the attached screenshot.

Let dropbox know this is a bad idea: https://www.dropbox.com/votebox/9527...public-folder-