Share your stuff with a link
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However, does this now deprecate the Public folder? I thought that was one of Dropbox's best features: knowing only things in the Public folder were publicly-accessible (with a link)—and more importantly, that files located anywhere else were completely private and NOT web-accessible at all—was easy to grok and explain.
I worry that as Dropbox moves toward its stated goal of becoming the "file system for the Internet" that they will give up the focus on syncing our private files in exchange for the allure of allowing every site and app to read and write from one's Dropbox. That's a worrisome future, indeed.
What would be really great is to have an easy view for all files that are not private (or all files that are link-shared, etc., since there are three tiers of privacy in the Dropbox world). On the web interface, this would be easy, but I do most of my work on the command-line, so it seems the easiest way for them (or anyone) to implement this would be through links.
However, I know that Dropbox has had (still has?) issues with treating symlinks properly, so I'm very hesitant to write a script to handle this myself.
As it stands, though, I'm very concerned about this. I've used Dropbox for years, and I've accumulated so many files and folders there - I could do some spring cleaning, but most of it is actually stuff that I want to be able to access remotely. Right now, I know that everything is private, except for the shared folders, which I always name "shared_" by convention. Pretty soon, that won't be the case, and not having a clear system for this makes me really* uneasy, because I know that human error is the number one cause of security/privacy breaches.
Also, when something is linked, there is a link icon on the right side of the file browser on http://dropbox.com/home
Still, if that works, that's good and takes care of #1, but I'd still like to see something like #2. The sad part is that it wouldn't be that hard for a 3rd party to implement (assuming that they support the /links endpoint in the API), but I'd be too afraid to do it myself, given Dropbox's history with broken symbolic links.
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ivankirigin 19 minutes ago | link [dead] You can view all the links you've made here: http://dropbox.com/links Also, when something is linked, there is a link icon on the right side of the file browser on http://dropbox.com/home
My guess is a bot killed it thinking the duplicate post was spam. No big deal
For example https://www.dropbox.com/s/yq9fyyh794qvghv/IMG_0146.JPG. You can't embed it in an img-tag. Other software which tries to embed or handle it as an image fails. Even worse: non-tech people you're trying to help here have no idea why: "But it's a .jpg!".
Dropbox just put a layer between me and the data and there's no easy way around it.
Sharing anything with a link has always been LogMeIn's thing, and their Dropbox clone (called Cubby and released into beta last week) also has it. But you know what else LogMeIn's stuff has that Dropbox doesn't? Client-side encryption. I wish Dropbox reacted to that.
Otherwise programs like HipChat are unable to auto-embed the photo, because its HTML dressed as an image. For example: https://www.dropbox.com/s/caha7e5v0js24mj/dropbox-hipchat-em...
I'd be happy to add a query string manually, i.e., https://www.dropbox.com/s/caha7e5v0js24mj/dropbox-hipchat-em...
Imgur.com does a good job with this.
https://photos-1.dropbox.com/pi/2048x1536/UoBdS4hHgypeXF5Ge8...
I guess my point is that it would be great, but you can have imgur or Dropbox -- not both.
And judging by Apple's success with selling BSD, you can get at least 11 years and a $533B market cap by doing exactly that, if you do it well!
With Dropbox, I basically put a file in a folder.
There's always a market for convenience.
Email doesn't handle that, because email doesn't let interested observers chip in. One-to-one has its drawbacks.
It's a bit catchword-y, but I like the phrase "ambient social" to describe the appeal of Facebook in one key sense: it's not about directed conversations, it's about creating opportunities for conversations which other people might take you up on. I post a status not because I want to talk about myself, but because I'm sending out a feeler for if anybody else wants to begin a conversation. (Which is why Twitter doesn't appeal to me the same way: it's nowhere near as easy to track conversations.)
However, this linking doesn't work well in OS X via Finder. Even though any file in My Documents is in my Dropbox, the Dropbox client doesn't detect this, and I don't have the option in the right-click menu to view the link for these files.