Want an extra 5GB storage with Dropbox?

oxygene · 7 Feb 2012 at 23:13

I just got the android app myself. Now I've run into another sort of problem

Got very little on my phone but loads on computer, and cant find my usb cable

Anyone know an app that shares your android storage on your network?

Tomsk · 7 Feb 2012 at 23:19

MarcLister said:
http://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id=53013&replies=651

Downloaded & installed to my Archos 80G9, rebooted.

Still no joy

Does the 'Camera uploads' folder get created automatically? I don't have that anywhere.

MarcLister · 8 Feb 2012 at 00:57

Tomsk said:
Downloaded & installed to my Archos 80G9, rebooted.

Still no joy

Does the 'Camera uploads' folder get created automatically? I don't have that anywhere.

Not entirely sure. It was there when I started to upload stuff but whether it was made as a result of installing the beta or uploading stuff I couldn't tell.

Jurax · 8 Feb 2012 at 01:09

Gets created once you start uploading.

Ironic Namesake · 8 Feb 2012 at 02:52

Added 5gb to camera uploads folder, have 20mb up so shouldn't take too long anyway

Simian · 8 Feb 2012 at 07:05

Gone from 2.75Gb to 8.4Gb by just dumping 5Gb of my Wedding Photos onto a stick (didn't even put em in a DCIM folder) and hit Autorun and uploaded...

Then did the Farcebook and ******* things and got the extras there too

Tomsk · 8 Feb 2012 at 08:21

Just installed 1.3.14 on my works PC and success!

ringo747 · 8 Feb 2012 at 09:02

How long does it take to notify you of new space?

Edit: got it. Thanks OP!

EniGmA1981 · 8 Feb 2012 at 10:10

it can take a while to notify you - delete the pictures to make it recalculate the space left, then it should announce the space increase

Semple · 8 Feb 2012 at 11:41

EVH said:
Have you been creating fake accounts and referring yourself?!

Yes about a dozen. VMWare's cloning tool has never been of better use!

Also if you have access to a .edu account you get 500mb per referral rather than 250mb. (meaning total space of 16gb rather than 8gb)

j.col · 8 Feb 2012 at 17:14

j.col said:
Anyone know how to do this on a Mac with a Blackberry phone?

everytime i connect the BB to the Mac, the BB software loads up, and there are no options for dropbox.
Even turning off the BB manager shows nothing

anyone know how to do this?

oxygene · 8 Feb 2012 at 17:42

Semple said:
Yes about a dozen. VMWare's cloning tool has never been of better use!

Also if you have access to a .edu account you get 500mb per referral rather than 250mb. (meaning total space of 16gb rather than 8gb)

Glad to hear that kind of thing works! I can make as many new email addresses as I want thanks to having my own webhost / domain, so was considering this fro a while lol.

cork-spotters · 8 Feb 2012 at 22:14

Thanks for the heads up - got the full 5GB... eventually!

Dewotter · 8 Feb 2012 at 22:33

You don't need to actually upload it all...

Simian · 9 Feb 2012 at 07:43

The Android app works nicely too.. tell it to only upload over Wi-Fi and just leave it!!

Soupy · 9 Feb 2012 at 13:40

Thanks for the heads-up on this ... 7gb and counting, hopefully have the full 8gb by the end of the day.

Can't really see me using all of it but it's nice to have

edit: I did it the USB flashdrive way ... DCIM folder and it worked a treat.

niroe · 9 Feb 2012 at 14:13

In the process of uploading some video now, thanks for the heads-up

Simian · 9 Feb 2012 at 15:11

Soupy said:
Thanks for the heads-up on this ... 7gb and counting, hopefully have the full 8gb by the end of the day.

Can't really see me using all of it but it's nice to have

edit: I did it the USB flashdrive way ... DCIM folder and it worked a treat.

None of mine were in a DCIM folder... I just dummped 5Gb of Photos and Videos onto the USB drives Root.. Worked nae probs!!

Semple · 9 Feb 2012 at 18:03

oxygene said:
Glad to hear that kind of thing works! I can make as many new email addresses as I want thanks to having my own webhost / domain, so was considering this fro a while lol.

That's too much effort

.

Google mytrashmail.com

Send invites to a load of random names. Sign each of them up with a password.
Then on each image on vmware you just sign in with that account.

ringo747 · 9 Feb 2012 at 19:36

When I do invites to spam addresses and run them in my VM the invite status goes to 'ineligible'. It must be smart enough to know that I have it already installed in a number of machines in the same network.