{"id":17410,"date":"2017-03-14T16:49:16","date_gmt":"2017-03-14T20:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=17410"},"modified":"2017-03-14T16:49:16","modified_gmt":"2017-03-14T20:49:16","slug":"dropbox-drops-public-folders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/14\/dropbox-drops-public-folders\/","title":{"rendered":"Dropbox Drops Public Folders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tidbits.com\/article\/17087\">Josh Centers<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/tidbits.com\/article\/17087\">\n<p>On 15 March 2017, Dropbox will convert all Public folders on free accounts to private folders, breaking existing links. Dropbox now recommends using a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/help\/274\">shared folder or shared link<\/a> for sharing files with others. Dropbox Plus and Dropbox Business users can continue to use the Public folder until 1 September 2017.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Although it&rsquo;s annoying to lose the Public folder and its HTML rendering capability, Dropbox remains useful because it&rsquo;s integrated so well into the Mac and iOS experience, and it just works.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Although, some of <a href=\"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/21\/dropbox-modifies-tcc-db-to-give-itself-accessibility-access\/\">its<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.is\/Wl7Ma\">recent<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=13741701\">behavior<\/a> has been troubling. I just want a basic folder that syncs and doesn&rsquo;t peg my CPU when there&rsquo;s filesystem activity in an unrelated folder.<\/p>\n<p>Previously: <a href=\"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/20\/dropbox-discontinues-html-rendering\/\">Dropbox Discontinues HTML Rendering<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Josh Centers: On 15 March 2017, Dropbox will convert all Public folders on free accounts to private folders, breaking existing links. Dropbox now recommends using a shared folder or shared link for sharing files with others. Dropbox Plus and Dropbox Business users can continue to use the Public folder until 1 September 2017. [&#8230;] Although [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[47,1451,96],"class_list":["post-17410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-dropbox","tag-sunset","tag-web"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17410"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17411,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17410\/revisions\/17411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}