Scroll down in this article to the 'Can I turn off shared links or certain access levels across my entire account? How do I adjust my settings?' section - about 1/3 of the way down the page. Also in the future you can change the folder settings on critical folders you own. If you are a user, you can ask your IT department to do the above. Answer (1 of 2): looks like there is a plug-in in the works for Dropbox to track downloads on public links, should be interesting to see what kind of functionality they provide thats different than bitly. you could look in your email logs as well - note that this is a sketchy method, because everyone sharing an office may have the same public IP, and IPs for home/mobile users are transient), and (b) find out the identity of the person who created the shared link originally, though you don't necessarily know who all used it once it was created. Go to your filestructure on your account on the web & hover your cursor over the file or folder youd like to share and click Share when it appears.

So literally the only thing Box knows is their IP address and when they accessed the file.Īre you an admin on your Box instance? If you are, you can use the Reporting console to (a) find out the exact IP address of the person who accessed the file, which might be useful if you have another way to correlate IP addresses to individual people (e.g. Hi , when you just see a date and location, it's because the person who previewed was not logged in to Box.

Other people download from dropbox