Dropbox Features – What Does ‘Save to My Dropbox’ Do?

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I have a link to another Dropbox folder and want to connect it to my Dropbox. The only real option I see available is Download → Save to my Dropbox.

When I select Download → Save to my Dropbox, is a copy being saved to my Dropbox or are the files linked to the original source? How will I know if the original source has been updated?

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I have just tried this using two separate Dropbox accounts to see the outcome, and I have found that it saves the file as a new file in the account. This is not linked at all to the previous file, as upon editing the original file, the file in my second account did not change.

The only way that I can see to find out if the source has been updated is by manually checking it.

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Dropbox Links – How to Create a Public Link from a Shared Folder

The link generated for a file is something like this:

https://www.dropbox.com/_someRandomStrings_/_theNameOfTheFile

If you replace www with dl it will take you directly to the respective file. Alternatively, adding ?dl=1 at the end of the link above, will redirect it to the dl.dropbox.com URL.

Now, if you have the link to a folder and you add ?dl=1 at the end, it will start downloading it as an archive.

Source. And the official source.

(I have tested the method and it works.)

Share a folder with Dropbox users but prevent them from modifying

You can't set permissions for shared folders in Dropbox.

This feature has been requested for three years, as has received almost 150k votes in Votebox, but Dropbox hasn't implemented it yet.

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Dropbox Links – How to Create a Public Link from a Shared Folder

Share a folder with Dropbox users but prevent them from modifying

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