

In your email Body box, select Direct Media Link to include a direct download link to your Dropbox file.

This link allows non-Thru users to securely send. You can share these links with anyone, even if they don't have a Dropbox account. Any Thru user with a Home folder can create a Thru Dropbox link to include in an Outlook email signature.

You can send a link by email, Facebook, Twitter, instant message, social networks, wherever you want. Just make a Zap that watches Dropbox for new files, then add a Gmail action to send the message. When you share a view-only link with someone, they can view, download, and share the file or folder on. Say you want to email a direct link to your colleagues whenever you add a file to your project folder in Dropbox. Share that link with your friends and colleagues and they can do the same.Īutomatically generate a Dropbox direct download link with ZapierĪnother option is to use Zapier's Dropbox integrations to automatically copy and share a direct download link to your new Dropbox files. To get a direct download link, replace the with dl., which will give you a link like: Ĭopy that link and paste it in your browser, and it should download the file directly. Or, on your desktop, right-click on the file, and select Copy Dropbox Link. Go to, find your file, and click the Copy link button that appears when you hover over it. First, you need the normal sharing link from Dropbox. Dropbox Basic makes it easy to securely send large files to anyone, and collaborate easily on the files you share.
