Link to photo on Dropbox will not open

I have been sent an email that contains a link to a picture that sender has stored on Dropbox.
The link worked fine on my laptop, but will not open the jpg on my Playbook.
What I see, is a rectangular grey image with break therough the corner. Maybe indicating a broken picture?
When I look under downloads, the picture name is there, but it is a very small file (33kb) and will not open.
I have done some tests myself and this happens regardless of the file or who sends it. I have tried smaller jpg files and same thing happens. I also tried changing the link from https to http with no change.
Here is an example of the link.
http://www.dropbox.com/s/3zp32c5qhiyq4eo/luke100.jpg
I would like to know why this happens and if there is a way to open the images.

rat-7 wrote:
Graham123 wrote:
I tried sending myself a different picture (much smaller) from my laptop as a Dropbox link as before. It opened fine once I chose OK as described above.
I notice you have a 64Gb and I have 32GB. Could that make a difference as to the memory allocated for file downloads?
I have no idea why it does that on your end and not on mine or vice-versa.
I doubt that the capacity would make a diffrence for the download, unless you have very little space left on the device
I tried something else.
Dropbox have changed the way we share files. In past, there was a public folder. Files were pasted into that folder and by right clicking, a link could be pasted to clipboard for insertion in an email. The newest version of Dropbox no longer has the public folder. You click on the file, in say Photos, and then on share. Then you can send file directly or copy link to clipboard and paste in an email.
The links created have a different format. Here are two I sent to PB
Firstly from new version of Dropbox using Sharing
https://www.dropbox.com/s/3zp32c5qhiyq4eo/luke100.jpg
andfrom older version of Dropbox using  public link
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/54783344/luke100.jpg
As before, the first link does not open the picture on PB. But the second one opens fine.
On other computers, both links open properly.
So, it seems there is something about the new style link that MY Playbook does not like.
To test this on another Playbook, it would be necessary to paste the two links into an email and send it to the Playbook. (On their own, the links will open in the browser, even on my Playbook).

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