Dropbox Confirms that Public Folder sharing is launching Soon

Dropbox has confirmed that it will be ending public folder support from the beginning of August, though the change will only impact new accounts and new public shares. "After July 31, 2012, we will no longer create Public folders in any new Dropbox accounts" the company said today, having emailed developers with the news last night. "Public folders in existing accounts, however, will continue to function as before."

"In April, we launched the ability to share any file or folder in your Dropbox with a simple link" Dropbox wrote on its company offiical blog. "This new sharing mechanism is a more generalized, scalable way to support many of the same use cases as the Public foldeR, If your app depends on Public folders, we recommend switching to the /shares API call."