Image Links to Dropbox Not Working

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I'm a new Joplin user, though with experience in Markdown.

Manjaro Linux desktop client, Version 1.7.11. Android current to Google Play version update 3 Feb 2021.

I can't create an image link to an image on my Dropbox account. Pasting test images into the same document (Joplin logo and image from the welcome file) both work.

I have gone to Dropbox in Firefox and the Android app, copied the link to the image, pasted it into the Markdown image link. I get a broken link. If I edit it to a regular link, it works.

Synchronization between all three devices, Linux workstation, Chromebook is enabled and working smoothly.

Apologies if I am missing something obvious, but I have googled and searched the forums here and can find no solution.

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what does the code look like?

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Thanks for replying. All help is gratefully received.

The image link to the Dropbox image looks like this:
![Compass Rose](https://www.dropbox.com/s/x94rooaeltrwzg9/Index-NavalMisc-CompassRose.jpg?dl=0)

If I edit it by removing the exclamation mark, it works as a link and opens the image in Chrome.

This link, to an image on a NASA webpage, works perfectly.
![](https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/styles/full_width/public/thumbnails/image/stsci-h-p1846a_f3840x2160.jpg?itok=zJQs9aqD)

The Dropbox link is copied using the Android Dropbox app.

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Does the Dropbox link work for you in browser if you're logged out of Dropbox?

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Sorry, not quite sure what you mean.

It works as a hyperlink in Joplin, and it opens the image in a Web browser when I do. My Linux box is logged off and the Android app is closed.

I tried using an inline HTML tag, per Joplin Markdown Guide. That didn't work, either.

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It looks like that URL isn't just image, at least when I open it in browser I get some popup and all sorts of other UI elements.
I suppose this is why Joplin can't embed it.

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Change the 0 for downloading in the link to 1, than you get only the image.

![Compass Rose](https://www.dropbox.com/s/x94rooaeltrwzg9/Index-NavalMisc-CompassRose.jpg?dl=0)
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Awesome! It worked. Thanks.

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