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Yea, I have been thinking about how to do this right. It would be easy to allow a user to optionally add a "Public Base URL" for a bookmark that you upload to, but like you said, that would really only work if you are uploading 1 file.

Definitely open to suggestions on this one.

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Automatically copying the URL to the clipboard could irritate some users. They may be using the clipboard for something else. A couple of alternatives:

* Right click on an item in the list and have an option to 'Copy URL'?

* Hover over an item in the list and a 'Copy URL' button appears? (Similar to how more information is provided when you hover over a youtube comment.)

>> Right click on an item in the list and have an option to 'Copy URL'?

This is precisely what I was thinking, but how does this work if you have uploaded a folder containing 100 files? Or 100 individual files. I really would like to implement this feature I'm just not sure the best way to deal with multi-file uploads.

I havent tried the app so I'm not entirely familiar with how it works, but surely right clicking on the folder and coping will copy a link to that folder. If however, you right click on one of the files within that folder and select 'copy url' then it will copy the url that points directly to that file.

It sounds like it should be fairly simple to design.

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