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Shopify CSV: product images don't import

What's happening: Shopify downloads images from a public URL. Local paths and share-page links fail.

How to fix it

1. C:\Users\... or /Users/... paths can't work: upload to Shopify (Content → Files) and paste those URLs.
2. Google Drive "view" and Dropbox dl=0 links return a web page, not the image.
3. Allowed formats: JPG, PNG, GIF, WEBP, HEIC. Encode spaces in URLs.

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