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Dropbox is a vital app in times of excessive storage for file and documents. You can install Dropbox on your Mac, Windows, Linux, iOS and Android device. You can also access your content online without installing the official app. Here we will show you all the ways to get more Dropbox space free.
Get 2GB of Dropbox space in less than 5 minutes
If you have just 2GB of available space, here’s a quick way for you to almost double it. After you have created a Dropbox account and downloaded the desktop client visit this page and then go through these steps:
- Complete the “Get Started” tour – 250MB
- Connect your Facebook account – 125MB
- Connect your Twitter account – 125MB
- Follow Dropbox on Twitter – 125MB
- Write a short text why you love Dropbox – 125MB
How to Get more Dropbox Space up to 40GB
Below are 5 ways to get more Dropbox space for free. You need to complete the following tasks to get up to 40GB for free:
1. Refer Friends – Get Free Dropbox Space up to 16GB
The way it works is that if you share your unique link with a new friend, you get 500MB worth of space for every person that signs up and installs Dropbox. A special package is you can get 16GB of space by inviting 32 people, which is why you should share it on a social media platform and even install Dropbox on all your family members’ computers. A sneaky way of going about this is by setting up a Facebook account with the Dropbox logo as the profile picture, connecting it with Tinder and putting your link in the description.
2. Install Mailbox App for iOS or Android – 1GB
At some point last year, Dropbox took over the mobile start-up Mailbox so to get more Dropbox space (in this case 1GB) install the Mailbox app for iOS or Android and just link your Dropbox account with the app to have that gig. After receiving that 1GB, you can delete the app.
3. Visit Dropbox Keynotes and get Up to 50GB of free Space
During the Dropbox keynotes, sometimes they give away up to 50GB of free Dropbox space to all people who visited the presentation. It’s not confirmed that they are giving away free storage space on every presentation. We read online that this happened in Germany, Netherlands, and US. So you can visit the next keynote and get free Dropbox space.
4. Use Dropbox on your Samsung or HTC mobile device – up to 48GB (expired)
Dropbox partnered with Samsung and HTC for cross-promotion so they came up with something pretty great where if you’re the owner of either a Samsung or HTC device that came with an installed Dropbox app, you are eligible for the following promotions which you can go to through these links: Samsung promotion or the HTC promotion
These are the requirements and rewards for the HTC or Samsung promotion:
- 3GB for one year if you have a device with HTC Sense 3.5 or 3.6
- 23GB for two years if your device runs HTC Sense 4.0, Sense 4+ or Sense 5.0
- 48GB for two years if your Samsung device came with an installed Dropbox app
You just need to complete five simple steps from the Get Started guide to get more Dropbox space for free and you can only avail these GB’s once. You will be getting an email for the free space you have received and you can’t avail it through multiple accounts.
5. Lookout for Challenges on their Blog
Seldom Dropbox launches different challenges for Dropbox users and you can get a hefty amount of 15GB’s off of it. These challenges are usually announced on the Dropbox blog so if you don’t intend on missing the upcoming Dropbox challenge.
Hope the above step helps you to get more Dropbox space for free.
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Dropbox, and similar services offered by other websites, have made file sharing super simple for consumers and business people, at an affordable price. But you need to understand a few things about Dropbox that can help to eliminate the pain of first-timers syndrome.
The Accounts
Dropbox offers three levels of accounts: Basic, Pro, and Business.
The Basic account is free, which nets you 2 gigabytes (GB) of space. As you refer friends to Dropbox, which often happens when you share a link and your friends sign up, Dropbox automatically gives you more free space. =
The Pro account comes with 1 terabyte (TB) of space and costs $9.99/month. With Pro, you can recover files within 30 days of deletion or pay $3.99/month to recover deleted files up to 1 year later, and set shared links to expire in a number of days or on a certain date and manage permissions for shared folders.
The Business account is geared for five or more users, costs $15/month per user and offers unlimited storage space. It also includes business-centric features like collaboration, encryption, unlimited file recovery and version history, the ability to track logins, remote wipe, account transfer, and a whole lot more.
The “Good and Bad” of the Desktop Agent
You can use the Dropbox web interface to set up folders, upload and download files, and share links and folders with other people. When you share a link, you’re sending a URL to your friend or co-worker, and that person can view and download files from a particular folder in your Dropbox account. When you share a folder and the person accepts the invitation, he can also upload and modify files to that folder.
Dropbox becomes integrated with File Explorer (in Windows 8/8.1 or Windows Explorer in Windows 7) by installing the Dropbox agent. With Dropbox installed on your computer, you can use File Explorer to manage almost everything. It also creates a copy of all files and folders in your Dropbox, including every Dropbox folder you’re linked to, on your local drive. So, if you’re using 40 GB of Dropbox space in a Pro account, your local disk now stores an additional 40 GB of files, too.
If you frequently use another computer and install the agent on that computer, the same 40 GB of files are now on that computer as well. What if Kim shared a folder with Mike, who decided to keep some of his stuff in the same shared folder? Mike’s stuff is now copied to the second computer. Because Mike doesn’t control the folder (it’s only shared with him—he’s not the owner), he no longer controls the files that can easily be copied to any computer.
Deleting Dropbox Folders
When you delete a Dropbox folder in File Explorer, you delete the folder from Dropbox (at least in the Basic and Pro accounts). Let’s say Betty shared a folder named MarketingDocs in her Dropbox account with you so that both of you could modify the same files. When you finished working with her on the project, you deleted MarketingDocs from File Explorer on your computer. That also deleted Betty’s MarketingDocs folder from her Dropbox account.
To avoid this situation, Betty needs to stop sharing the folder with you. When she removes sharing, she can choose to let you keep the folders on your local disk.
To safely remove all Dropbox folders from a computer, you first need to unlink the computer from Dropbox using the Dropbox Preferences dialog box. In the Windows taskbar, click Show Hidden Icons, click the Dropbox icon, click the gear icon, and select Preferences. In Dropbox Preferences, click the Unlink This Dropbox button. We also uninstall the Dropbox agent before deleting the Dropbox folders from File Explorer, just to be safe.
Remember the Delay
When you copy or upload files to Dropbox, the service needs a little time to sync the files with those on your local disk. You can see the syncing progress by opening the Dropbox agent on your computer (click Show Hidden Icons on the taskbar, and then click the Dropbox icon).
If you’re uploading a large number of files, or a very large file, to a shared folder for other users, wait until the syncing process is complete before notifying people that the files are available. Otherwise, they’ll see nothing.
Maintenance, Maintenance, Maintenance
If you work around the clock, you’ll learn exactly when Dropbox performs maintenance. We notice it during the wee hours of the night and on Sundays. During those times, all kinds of strange things can occur, especially longer-than-usual delays with syncing. After maintenance is done, everything will sync normally, so just be aware of it and be patient. Similar issues will occur if you frequently use Dropbox but have sporadic Internet access.
Winding Down
Dropbox is a great tool and part of our must-have services, and it’s a true value based on cost and capacity. Just in case someone from Dropbox is reading this…for those of us who tend to run tandem file structures on our hard disk and Dropbox (again, a safety mechanism), and then copy files to Dropbox, it would be nice for the Dropbox agent to change the color of the File Explorer background when viewing Dropbox folders.
