Dropbox Prevent Download ^NEW^
Alexandria Loconte
I have Dropbox Plus and it has come to my attention that the link I sent to one individual was copied and sent to an individual I did not give access to. That individual is able to view my documents without my permission. How do I prevent this from happening?
This may seem obvious, but when I got annoyed with the dropbox client autostarting I simply uninstalled it. Since I didn't purge it I still have the original /.config/autostart/dropbox.desktop on my system: Mine looks like this.
Now if I had still wanted to use it (I didn't and uninstalled it). I would simply move the launcher from autostart to the desktop. with the command mv /.config/autostart/dropbox.desktop /Desktop/ This is a simple hack and since the launcher is no longer in the autostart folder it shouldn't be automatically started.
If for some reason that doesn't work because the entry is getting erroneously recreated due to non-existence you could simply edit the file changing the Exec=dropbox start -i line to Exec=dropbox running which just returns 1 if running and 0 if not and does not run the dropbox daemon.
You could also be extremely insistent about your demands if the launcher is getting overwritten with defaults by simply removing permissions to access /.config/autostart/dropbox.desktop by making it either impossible to read at login or impossible to overwrite. For this brutal hack see man chmod
Note: Please be sure to make a note or take a screenshot of any Selective Sync settings you may have applied as well as the location of your Dropbox folder (if not in the default location) prior to re-installing, as you will need to match these settings upon re-install. If you're using a headless version of Dropbox you can access the list of Selective Sync folders by running "dropbox exclude".
Downloads can be disabled for a shared link on dropbox.com or on the Dropbox mobile app, if you are on a Professional or Business Dropbox subscription. Please find all the information for shared link permissions here.
In fact, when you change the ending parameters to "raw=1", you have almost formed a download links! The only difference is missing "content-disposition" in http header. If you embed a link with attribute "download", pointing to your video, it become download link. That's why when you disable downloads, video becomes completely inaccessible (including for play in your site). It still left accessible through the "dl=0" link, but only difference is a disabled download button! There is no secure way to completely prevent downloads. If somebody can see the video on your site, there is always a way to download it. Only thing you can do is to make it difficult, that's it. Dropbox don't provide actual instrumentation to make this secure enough, so be difficult to somebody more experienced than a small child (that isn't a main purpose for this service). In the page describing download disabling is noted:
Everytime I start Dropbox (in Precise) it gets added to the autostart list even if I deleted the entry before. I don't want Dropbox to be started when I log in only when I want it to.How to prevent Dropbox to be automatically added to the autostart list?
By default, dropbox will start automatically at login. The update-rc.d command is not concerned here. (/etc/rc*.d/directories don't contain dropbox). There is no service "dropbox" (/etc/init.d don't contain dropbox)
Yes, I could tell user of Z or Y to deselect synching of NEW, but I would like to be able to prevent the automatic synching of folder NEW at the moment of creating it.
While this won't prevent access to the folders, if you have a Plus, Professional or Business account, you can set certain comptuers to sync new content as Online-only using Smart Sync. The folders will appear on the computer, but the content is only online. This would prevent the space issues such as on Computer Z, but it doesn't prevent access.
Hello there. My small design studio are all working off Dropbox for our server. We are on Macs, have the Dropbox app installed and access our files via Finder. We regularly work on the same files and I've noticed that we can all have the same file open at once, and won't get a warning until we hit Save. This is not ideal. Is it possible to set Dropbox to prevent you from opening a file that someone already has open? Thanks in advance for any help.
I've tried disabling DropBox from auto-starting by unticking Start dropbox on system startup in dropbox preferences, but DropBox then still likes to start up uninvited when I connect anyway, quietly appearing in the system tray quietly downloading gigabytes...
My current workaround is to use a firewall that monitors data usage (I'm using Glasswire, which is really easy to use), and forbid dropbox from using the network until I manually re-allow it. However this is open to user error (I could easily forget to untick this when I finish using unmetered wifi), and some applications sneak past firewalls like this by running as a service and pigbacking on "Host process for Windows services", so it's not foolproof.
I'm running Dropbox on my Windows 10 Home Edition. The computer is Acer Predator PH315-51. The problem is that Dropbox prevents my system from going to sleep (also hibernate) properly. As soon as I have the Dropbox desktop app installed, trying to put the laptop to sleep leaves it in a weird state that turns the display off but fans and keyboard lights stay on, and the only way to recover it from that state is to hard shut down it and lose all unsaved data and running apps and jeopardize corrupting the hard drives. When I uninstall Dropbox, the sleep problem goes away and comes back when I install Dropbox again, so I'm pretty sure Dropbox is the culprit. I found this post -installs-integrations/Does-Dropbox-prevent-Windows-from-slee... but it claims dropbox does not do anything to prevent the computer from going to sleep which I'm having hard time to believe and my problem is quite opposite to the one in that post in the first place.
The operating system is up-to-date. There are dozens of applications installed, and by uninstalling them one by one (first taking a backup image of the initial state, of course) I found that the uninstallation of Dropbox makes the problem go away, and reinstalling Dropbox brings it back. The sleep problem does not occur every time you put it in sleep, so this is still a little bit of speculation, but the change in probability is so significant with uninstalling/reinstalling Dropbox that I'm sure it has something to do with this. If Dropbox does not intentionally prevent sleeping, could it be that it produces network traffic or something that practically has the same effect?
Please I need urgent help on this, I have mistakably done a backup of my Mac for Dropbox and I can't access my Desktop on my Mac anymore after doing this it says, "Desktop can't be opened because the original item can't be found" I tried to disable backup from the Adjust settings but I get an error saying "Coulnd't stop backup because My mac was renamed, deleted or moved" besides, I checked the available documents of my desktop in the online backup available in the dropbox website and many is missing!! basically because my storage is full, now how can restore my whole desktop without any missing files??
Thanks for your reply. Fortunately, i restarted my Mac and i was able to see my Desktop files, now i want to stop backing up my folders to dropbox and remove the desktop application. I have signed out to stop syncing my files, but I think my Mac folders (Desktop, Downloads, and Documents) are still linked to the dropbox folder as the path for the Desktop, for example, is still under my dropbox folder (CDS dropbox) ( as shown in the "Desktop" info attached). And i believe it is still linked to dropbox as the original icon for desktop (e.g., the Desktop icon for a Mac laptop) is not restored, I still have the Desktop, Documents, and Downloads as folders (not as default Mac folder icons). How can i restore my Mac environment as it was before i set up the backup to dropbox? am I missing any additional step?
I pressed on cmd+shift+H to see the elements under my root username and this is what i got when i clicked on get info for the desktop, "Original" location should be in my dropbox folder not under my the root user, is this what is causing the probem? if so, how can i move them back to the original location?
I would like to prevent dropbox autostarting when I log to xfce, but when I start dropbox manually it always adds itself to the autostart options under "Session and Startup".
I've removed it from that list, removed the autostart option on dropbox itself, used "dropbox-cli autostart n", searched the forums but I still can't find a solution.
The dropbox.desktop file gets created in /.config/autostart as soon as I start dropbox.
If I remove dropbox from "Session and Startup autostart" under Xfce4 settings the file disappears, but when I start dropbox again the file gets created once more.
I've created an empty dropbox.desktop file and changed its attributes with chattr +i.
That's the only way I could find to prevent the dropbox.desktop file from being created in /config/autostart everytime I start dropbox.
You would choose to ignore folders from syncing to dropbox when your folder contains thousands or millions of temporary files that aren't necessary to be backed up. Backing up such a folder could cause Dropbox to use a lot of CPU cycles and RAM on your computer to keep track of all the changes to your files. This might slow down your computer.
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