Well, their computer will AUTO-download the file straight to their downloads folder (or wherever they have it set to go when they download things from the Internet) and they will never even see Dropbox. So it's more work for them, which can be super annoying.Īnother reason this is not so great is because there are some people who don't have a Dropbox account and/or hate it – so they'll get a notification that Dropbox wants them to create an account and they're not going to like that much (not that they HAVE to but it could be annoying).Īll you have to do is change the “0” at the VERY END of your Dropbox link to a “1”. Send the file request using someone’s email address or the upload link 4. Select ‘New Request’, fill in the form fields and choose a folder for uploaded files 3.

Choose ‘File requests’ from the Dropbox side menu 2. They then have to click the link at the top to download it. Here is a quick guide to using the Dropbox file request feature: 1.

Which is the link you get when you ask to “copy dropbox link” within your dropbox account, it takes them to a screen that looks like this (obviously YOUR file will be in the place of where mine is right now).

Create a dropbox link