disabling "viewers" from downloading files in Dropbox

Created Jan 5, 2019 • Last Updated Jun 15, 2022 • For Lead Link

After uploading a file to Dropbox, in order to disallow "viewers" to download the file,

  1. hover over the selected file name, click on the "share" button (to the far right of the selected file name)
  2. at bottom of the pop-up window, click "Create a Link"
  3. then, when it appears, click on "Link settings"
  4. after new window appears, toggle "disable downloads" to "ON"
  5. click "save"