Blighty

Thanks for bringing to my attention. I had stopped development on this, but I’ve now upgraded it to be compatible with PHP 8.*

Thanks for your feedback. I just tested this again and, like @rjpivonka, it’s working normally for me too. A few others have reported this over the years, and I’ve never been able to get to the bottom of why it works for most, but not for others.

Would you mind answering a few questions?

1. What type of Dropbox account do you have (e.g. Personal / Business)?
2. What file extension are you getting this problem with?
3. Are there any non-alphanumeric characters in either the folder names or filenames?

Thanks!

Thanks for the update – glad to see you got it working again. Usual causes are the allowed file types and/or a hosting upload size limit.

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v2.2.3 will address this.

If you use it in conjunction with a Lightbox type plugin, it should work as you are describing.

Problem will be fixed with v2.2.3.

Thanks for your feedback. I was able to recreate the error, so I will attempt to fix it.

Thanks for the feedback. I was able to recreate the problem and will work on a fix.

I’m unable to recreate the error and not sure where to start debugging. Do you have an example page where I can take a look?

Sorry for the slow reply. I’ve just tested this again and it, of course, works fine on my set up. I’m happy to dig deeper so can you let me know if you have any access control turned on for this folder and if you’re using any plugin shortcodes?

Thanks!

Chris

Great to hear Jim. Thanks for working with me through this one!

Hi Jim,

Thanks for trying out my suggestions. I unfortunately can’t replicate your issue. I have, though, added new functionality to the plugin to completely reset the access control with version 2.2.1. Maybe give that a go.

Cheers,
Chris

Hi Jim,

Thanks for your feedback. v2.2.0 did address some Access Control logic but should have been backward compatible with your previous settings. Two things you could try after updating to 2.2.0 again:

1. In the Admin, select the All/Anonymous role and select each folder before clicking Save Changes. It sounds like you might have done this, but just to be sure please try it again! Note that it won’t keep the checkbox after saving, but you can verify the access control that’s been applied to each folder by looking at the value in parenthesis after each folder.

2. If you want All/Anonymous role on EVERY folder, and you’re comfortable making changes in the WordPress database for your site, find the bex_folder_auth key in the options table and you can delete it. This will reset access to All/Anonymous for each folder.

Thanks,
Chris

Hi Mark,

There are no immediate plans to add this functionality to the plugin.

You could potentially achieve what you’re aiming for by using a plugin such as WPFront User Role Editor and creating new custom roles; one role for each user. For example, set up a John-Doe role for the user John Doe and a Jane-Doe role for the user Jane Doe, etc. (Normally you’d give more generic roles names and assign user[s] to those.) Access can then be granted to these roles for each specific subfolder(s).

Hope that helps.

Chris

Hi Andrew – great idea. I’ll push a new version of the plugin on October 1st 2018.

Thanks!

Chris