As nearly as I can piece together, the new Dropbox behavior evidenced by
my account, was intended to be rolled out to all subscribers. The
development team didn't seem to realize that the changes which they
thought would enhance security would break the way some of us were using
the service, (apparently people using the same web gallery package that
is used by the PUG also had problems). So the upshot is that it's been
rolled back, at least according to the email I've just received from
Dropbox support. I haven't tested it yet, I have to get up in the
morning and I'm going to bed.
On 12/1/2011 2:13 PM, P. J. Alling wrote:
The problem has been Identified and after is being referred to the
"team". For a while there I thought I might be the one going crazy,
but a number of others have reported similar experiences and yet the
old behavior still held for one correspondent, on a different
computer, both with the Dropbox application and the web interface.
Of course that doesn't preclude that I'm not crazy already. After all
I'm a member of the PDML.
On 12/1/2011 1:49 AM, P. J. Alling wrote:
From what I can gather it's only a problem when using a web browser,
(which is unfortunately what I use from my laptop), or the latest
version. Which you may not have downloaded. The version I have
running on my desktop has problems with context menus on that
machine, but I attribute that to it's Ancient operating system, (Win2K).
On 12/1/2011 1:23 AM, Brian Walters wrote:
On Wednesday, November 30, 2011 11:24 PM, "P. J. Alling"
<webstertwenty...@gmail.com> wrote:
The dropbox boys have removed "Get Public Link" and replaced it with a
new and improved "Get Shareable Link" command. This does two
things, it
gives a "Tiny URL" like address, but when you click on that link it
displays the HTML code of your web page, and asks if you want to
download it, rather than allowing the browser to display the page. I
find this to be very annoying. I've left a message on their forum
explaining the problem and asking for a workaround or fix. I have no
idea if they'll even respond. However if more of us complain perhaps
there's a better chance that they'll take notice and do something
about
it.
Have they fixed this already??
When I go to my 'My Dropbox' public folder on my local PC, I'm seeing
'Copy Public Link' in the Dropbox context menu when I right click on a
html file. Pasting that into a browser brings up the web page not the
code. Same thing when I go to my account on the Dropbox website.
I'm probably not understanding the problem.
Cheers
Brian
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Brian Walters
Western Sydney Australia
http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/
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