On Monday, December 05, 2011 2:44 AM, "P. J. Alling" <webstertwenty...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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.
OK. I hope it works out but as I said previously, I haven't seen the problem. The Album software used for the PUG is JAlbum and I'm also using JAlbum for my PESOs on Dropbox. It seems to be working OK. Cheers Brian ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ > > > 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 > >>> > >>> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > >>> Brian Walters > >>> Western Sydney Australia > >>> http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ > >>> > >>> > >> > >> > > -- -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Does exactly what it says on the tin -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
