{"id":1235,"date":"2017-11-16T21:14:24","date_gmt":"2017-11-17T02:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/matthannan.net\/blog\/?p=1235"},"modified":"2017-11-16T22:17:04","modified_gmt":"2017-11-17T03:17:04","slug":"addressing-the-dropbox-link-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matthannan.net\/blog\/addressing-the-dropbox-link-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Addressing the Dropbox Link Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Found all my old Dropbox file links to be broken now that they made some strange change. The direct linking feature was one of my favorite things about Dropbox, so I am seriously looking for a solution right now.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/help\/desktop-web\/force-download\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this site<\/a> that suggests a &#8220;raw=1&#8221; be added to the end of a link. Testing now.<\/p>\n<p>This is the basic &#8220;Copy DropBox Link&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/co2spt70avy3xz5\/CatherineMaryDraddy.jpg?dl=0\">https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/co2spt70avy3xz5\/CatherineMaryDraddy.jpg?dl=0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Messing with this raw=1 stuff.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"\" alt=\"\" width=\"513\" height=\"740\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We have a winner!<\/p>\n<p>Here is a file linked from OneDrive. Say what you want, but it does have some cool features. Let&#8217;s see if this is one of them.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/1drv.ms\/i\/s!AtAmZnCr_mdXermdFUqaIpxxLm4\">https:\/\/1drv.ms\/i\/s!AtAmZnCr_mdXermdFUqaIpxxLm4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bummer.<\/p>\n<p>OK, now GoogleDrive.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/0B9mlWG-aBJbLTUQzTFFRckJmWW5nZ2ZxLTFZQ0FoMXRob0g0\/view?usp=sharing\">https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/0B9mlWG-aBJbLTUQzTFFRckJmWW5nZ2ZxLTFZQ0FoMXRob0g0\/view?usp=sharing<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dropbox is still in the lead, but I am not happy about what they&#8217;ve done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Found all my old Dropbox file links to be broken now that they made some strange change. The direct linking feature was one of my favorite things about Dropbox, so I am seriously looking for a solution right now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[46,364,228,365],"class_list":["post-1235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek","tag-blog","tag-broke","tag-dropbox","tag-raw1"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2NxlE-jV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1238,"url":"https:\/\/matthannan.net\/blog\/addressing-the-dropbox-link-change-part-ii\/","url_meta":{"origin":1235,"position":0},"title":"Addressing the Dropbox Link Change, Part II","author":"matthannan","date":"16 November 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Well, that obviously didn't work. :-( But, I found this page that talks about getting around the whole ?raw=1 stuff. 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