How to get an External link.

[Georgeathome]

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1. Want to know how to get an external link
2. I only get internal links

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[tflidd]

In the Nextcloud folder, if you make a right click on the file/folder, you normally have Nextcloud in the context menu and there you have the sharing options as well.
In Win11, it might be a bit different and you need to click on something like show all options first.