Dropbox Forums: New Sharing Model

I don't know why, but I all of a sudden feel like all my private dropbox data is now vulnerable to some form of hack, bug, exploit, malicious script, etc, that turns it all into a public web page.<p>Sharing with just people I know is one thing, but creating a web page of some of my data is another.<p>I don't know, it just doesn't feel right.<p>Dropbox, remember, you're dealing with private files on our personal computers, and one step too far and you're looking at mass exodus. Learn from Facebook. Use caution with new features.

A natural progression. I'm glad they finally went there. I am a happy customer of their 50 gig offering. I know there are a lot of YC companies out there (most of which I am not interested in the least, but hey, different market), but they hit a big market with DropBox.<p>I'm signing my parents up to coordinate pics, music and videos soon.

Bonus points to the first person to write a FUSE filesystem to mount shared Dropbox folders so you can easily download the entire contents of a folder.<p>Or they could just add a "download folder" link, but that sounds boring. It also looks like they want people to use "Copy to my Dropbox" for that, which would lead to more signups.

Is this a security risk? Could someone, theoretically, enter in a random string of characters and land on your files?

That is beyond cool. I bet you can put a git repo in dropbox and clone it using the shareable link. I'd test if I didn't have a program to deliver in 4h.

I bet with the public launch, they will put bandwidth restrictions in place. Otherwise this will be misused in no time.

Important point:<p><i>Any file or folder in your Dropbox is now linkable!</i><p>But not quite yet, presumably very soon. Apparently appears in the 0.8 beta clients only, didn't see anything specific about the website (though I don't see it on my account).

This sounds a lot like drop.io or mediafire etc.. file sharing services with a web interface. Since people were already using the public links to share individual files it makes a lot of sense to expand it to the folder level.

I tried the feature and I like it. The only confusion was about "Copy to my DropBox" button. It does only one-time snapshot of the shared area. I would expect to have live access to shared area through my local folder.

This is pretty awesome. Might replace senduit.com and similar services for me.

This feature has been available in the iPad client for some time now.

Tonido 1-click share does the same thing. Get a shareable link to a file or folder:<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtFRqNcGIP4" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtFRqNcGIP4</a>

Dropbox has a music player now?