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Issues with dropbox, where to upload CSVs to?

Dropbox has removed the public folder functionality from their free service, are there any alternative ways (or upload places) to make a file readable by quantopian?

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Hi James,

I have a free personal dropbox account and I was able to get a public link for a file. Perhaps its an issue with your dropbox account settings? Or you may need to enable your public Dropbox folder.

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In order to get a public folder, I have to use their paid service, public folders from pre-2012 accounts were grandfathered in.

Ah I see - let me take a look at some other options and I'll get back to you

Hi James,

Take a look at Copy - they are another cloud backup service and give away 15GB of free storage to new users. When you upload a file and click "share", you can reference that URL in fetcher to import data to your algorithm.

Good luck!
Alisa

Thank you!