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Did I miss something? My Dropbox has had this functionality for a long time - years? Yes - just logged in and confirmed, the links section of my Dropbox account shows a link generated on 6/26/2010, and I'm sure that wasn't day 1 of this feature offering.

Maybe not enough people just ever noticed, and they're improving awareness?

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AFAIK this was only available on items in the public folder (and not on folders themselves btw) ... now, it seems that you can get a link to any folder (get Public Gallery link) but I still can only link to specific items in the public folder ...

It has long been a feature that you have to activate by clicking (appropriately enough, I guess) a link on an obscure Dropbox support page: https://www.dropbox.com/enable_shmodel

It can't have been that long ago because I've been able to copy public folder links and share files with users who don't have Dropbox since I first signed up - back in June of aught 10.

I agree. I have Dropbox for a couple of years now and the Public Folder was always there, allowing me to drop files in an ask (by right-clicking) for a public link, that "just works".

Perhaps DB made this feature available for all files and not just those in the Public folder. But is this really prudent? It makes following which files of mine are shared and which aren't harder...

I am positive I have had this feature since the beginning and not just in the public folder. What odd though is that I have been the only person at work with it.

If I recall, they had this feature and then eliminated it. I remember trying to use it a several months ago and couldn't.

i've been using that feature for at least months if not years. Very strange

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