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I was able to email a link to one of my Dropbox folders to someone who is not on Dropbox. They can view the files in the folder in their web browser. However, there doesn't appear to be any option to download a file to their computer for example, PDF or MP4 file. How do they do this?
Go to Solution. On a side note, could you try another network or any other devices to see if the dowload button works normally? Walter Community Moderator Dropbox dropbox. Did this post help you? If so, please give it a Like below. Still stuck?
Ask me a question! View solution in original post. Hey there jordanrobison - how are you today? If they want to download a specific file from the folder, they'll need to click on it to preview it and then select 'Download' from the upper right corner or else they should be seeing an option for direct download as shown below:. Active Oldest Votes. There's kind of a workaround. Improve this answer. This doesn't work for me -- it must have changed since then.
This worked for me! JoLiss I just checked, and it still seems to work just fine. If it does then change this to? Show 5 more comments. Andrew Lott 2, 4 4 gold badges 20 20 silver badges 35 35 bronze badges. Robert Pazurek Robert Pazurek 1 1 silver badge 2 2 bronze badges. Yup, going up one level to the top of my Dropbox did it. Select or right-click the folder and there's a download link indeed. For large folders it is necessary to download subfolders separately.
At least at free account. You cannot download the entire folder without adding it to your Dropbox first. I tried to append the? But this worked for me: Go to parent folder of the shared folder for me it was dropbox. Alex It's not necessary to have a Dropbox account for this. Rafael Perez Rafael Perez 9 1 1 bronze badge. The following is part of test. The link in your question is not the link to the file, is a link to the Dropbox page of this file. If you want to use wget to download it, you should copy the link to direct download from the menu that drops when pushing the download button to the right.
In my case, that worked fine. However, sometimes problems in downloading links from outside the browser relate to parameters other than the link itself. A common element that does not exist when you simply copy the link are the site cookies. And also, especially if we are talking about a known workstation and not a casual one, you can of course install the Dropbox client. This will be the easiest way, just let your box be part of your file structure and eliminate the need of complicated downloads.
See this askubuntu. Just add? That should give you a fine retrieval of the file in question without adding anything to the file.
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