The Public folder and its sharing functionality have been disabled. The HTML content itself remains safe in Dropbox, and you can share it using any of our other sharing methods.Įffective September 1, 2017, Dropbox Plus and team account users can no longer render HTML content. If you're a Basic user and you created a website that displays HTML content from your Dropbox account, it won’t work in the browser anymore. Using the public folder to render HTML contentĪs of October 3, 2016, Dropbox Basic (free) users can no longer use public links to render HTML content in a web browser. If you'd like to re-share any of the files in your Public folder, please use a shared folder or shared link.Dropbox can't convert existing public links into Dropbox shared links.
If someone visits a link to a file in your Public folder, they'll see an error page.All files in your Public folder will remain safe, but public links to those files will stop working.This transition will occur automatically. By default this folder is private to your account and it acts just like any other folder that you’ve created. As of March 15, 2017, the Public folder in your Dropbox account has been converted into a standard folder.
