Looks like they fixed that problem with newest 1.3.13 version. It works now also on winXP sp3 here!

Care to share a little bit more to have a edu email account you would need access to school or college network.

1. go here: http://www.fakenamegenerator.com/
2. go here: http://californiacolleges.edu/newuser.asp and created a .edu email address with the fake info you got from first link.
3. enter your newly created .edu address here: https://www.dropbox.com/edu

Note: Verification of email can take a while. Mine took like 12 hours to be activated.

Fake name generator seems like overkill. When making a spoof address just use whatever name, etc you will remember.

I've tried Californiacolleges.edu, but I'm not sure it actually generates a .edu email address?

Thanks for the tip if it does actually work.

I suppose it doesn't work anymore.

any way to do the upload on mac?

any way to do the upload on mac?

http://dl-web.dropbox.com/u/17/Dropbox%201.3.13.dmg

any way to do the upload on mac?

http://dl-web.dropbox.com/u/17/Dropbox%201.3.13.dmg

nice one geeza

i have a quick question:
if i follow instructions and get my 5gb storage and then remove all the photo's will i still have 5gb forever? or will it revert down 500mb for every 500mb i remove?


thanks

i guess they are forever or until Dropbox Corp exists or until Earth exists

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Care to share a little bit more to have a edu email account you would need access to school or college network.

1. go here: http://www.fakenamegenerator.com/
2. go here: http://californiacolleges.edu/newuser.asp and created a .edu email address with the fake info you got from first link.
3. enter your newly created .edu address here: https://www.dropbox.com/edu

Note: Verification of email can take a while. Mine took like 12 hours to be activated.

I follow your istruction but in californiacolleges.edu when I registered where is the email.edu??

thanks

i guess they are forever or until Dropbox Corp exists or until Earth exists

Yes, Dropbox confirmed this 5gb are "for ever"
https://www.dropbox.com/help/287

Care to share a little bit more to have a edu email account you would need access to school or college network.

1. go here: http://www.fakenamegenerator.com/
2. go here: http://californiacolleges.edu/newuser.asp and created a .edu email address with the fake info you got from first link.
3. enter your newly created .edu address here: https://www.dropbox.com/edu

Note: Verification of email can take a while. Mine took like 12 hours to be activated.

I follow your istruction but in californiacolleges.edu when I registered where is the email.edu??

thanks

It's months that they do not give anymore edu addresses, but other universities still do. You have just to spend some time looking.

Found this info somewehre on the internet. Dont give me credit for this.

Easy 5GB without actually uploading 5GB. Worked very well for me!

1 (Not required) Exit dropbox (right click tray: Exit)
2 Collect 5GB of .avi's on your pc (If you have 5GB storage space, if you have 2GB, collect 2GB of .avi's)
3 Copy the .avi's to your phone in DCIM/Camera folder
4 Install/Update your desktop(Windows etc. Not android!) dropbox client from the first post
5 Make sure dropbox is running
6 Connect your phone in mass storage mode
7 From the action pop-up in Windows choose: Import with dropbox
8 Wait until import is complete
9 While dropbox is uploading the files (After indexing!) right-click the tray icon and select 'pause syncing'
10 Delete the avi's from Dropbox/Camera Uploads folder
11 Right-click the tray icon and select 'resume syncing'
12 Done!

I already said that a couple of message up.
You don't even need to pause the sync, just delete all the files. I discovered that by myself.

I posted an easy how to for people who still have questions. Refer to my thread over http://forum.mobilism.org/viewtopic.php?f=112&t=300701&hilit=dropbox With this method, you don't have to upload a bunch of pictures. Just that 1 file.

Any way to get it without uploading 5gb files?

You don't have to upload the 5gb files. Just get dropbox to index them and when the upload process start, you can stop it by simply deleting the files. So you basically get the 4.5gb without uploading anything. To get the first 500mb, you HAVE to upload 1 file. Any simple image file would do.