{"id":49,"date":"2018-02-01T14:43:53","date_gmt":"2018-02-01T14:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pictureecho.com\/blog\/?p=49"},"modified":"2025-11-24T10:42:54","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T10:42:54","slug":"how-to-get-more-dropbox-space-without-buying-extra-volume","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pictureecho.com\/blog\/how-to-get-more-dropbox-space-without-buying-extra-volume\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Get More Dropbox Space Without Buying Extra Volume?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Dropbox<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is a cloud service designed to enable users to save their data onto the cloud without having to worry about it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It also gives the flexibility of directly adding files to from your desktop, once you&#8217;ve installed its local client. Simply move the files you want to add to <\/span><b>Dropbox<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, to the local <\/span><b>Dropbox<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> folder on your computer and the sync process will kick into action at that moment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, <\/span><b>Dropbox<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> provides only a mere <\/span><b>2GB<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of space for the overtly popular and free of cost plan, known as <\/span><b>Dropbox Basic<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Going by today&#8217;s standards, this is very little space and can at best be managed only for a short period of time by applying quite conservative usage methods. Even then, a day will come when you will run out of storage and <\/span><b>Dropbox<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> will show up the dreaded notification about you getting perilously close to exhausting your storage quota.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For these reasons, we&#8217;ve compiled this guide to help you make the most of <\/span><b>Dropbox<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> without having to pay even a dime. The following lines will lay out a few hacks which will enable the users to add up a handsome amount of storage space to their <\/span><b>Dropbox<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> account.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Tips to Get Free Space from Dropbox<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Here are a few <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/getspace\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">tips<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to help you top up your account with some hefty amount of storage space.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Complete the <\/span><b>Get Started<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> tour (<\/span><b>125MB<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Link your <\/span><b>Facebook<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> account (<\/span><b>125MB<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Link your <\/span><b>Twitter<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> account (<\/span><b>125MB<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Follow <\/span><b>Dropbox<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on <\/span><b>Twitter<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (<\/span><b>125MB<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tell people why you love <\/span><b>Dropbox<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> by writing a small review (<\/span><b>125MB<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Here are a few more tricks that will help you add up more data by spending some more time on a few tasks you can perform.<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><b>Invite your friends to Dropbox<br \/>\nDropbox<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> rewards you for as many as <\/span>32<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> invitees that actually sign up for the service. For every invitee who sings up, <\/span>Dropbox Basic<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> users get <\/span>500MB<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> added to their account storage quota whereas <\/span>Dropbox Plus<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span>Dropbox Professional<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> users get <\/span>1GB<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> added to their account. This means that you can easily earn yourself a significant amount of storage space just by inviting your friends and getting them to sign up.<\/span><br \/>\n<\/b><\/li>\n<li><strong>Install Mailbox on Android or iOS<br \/>\nDropbox<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8216;<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">s acquisition of <\/span><strong>Mailbox<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> means users can get <\/span><strong>1GB<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> more space simply by installing this app on their <\/span><strong>Android<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> or <\/span><strong>iOS<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> smartphones.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>Watch Out for Dropbox Challenges<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>Dropbox<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> often offers some new challenges that you can try out to get more space, e.g. the <\/span><strong>Samsung<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> challenge which fetched the winners <\/span><strong>48GB<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of space. Follow the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.dropbox.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dropbox blog<\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to know about the challenges as and when they are announced.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Free Up Space by Cleaning Your Dropbox<br \/>\n<\/b>Free up valuable space in your <b>Dropbox<\/b> account by simply scanning it for duplicate data. The odds of the creation of duplicate files on your computer are greater than ever before. And these files often get synced to your <b>Dropbox<\/b> account and eat up storage space for no good.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><b>Clone Files Checker<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is an amazing software program that helps <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clonefileschecker.com\/blog\/make-your-dropbox-less-bulky-by-deleting-the-duplicate-files\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sweep clean all duplicates<\/a> from your\u00a0<strong>Dropbox<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0account with great ease. It examines the hash of every single file to determine if it&#8217;s a dupe or not.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Simply install the program, launch its <\/span><b>Cloud Scan<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> feature and sign into <\/span><b>Dropbox<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Now you can select all folders which you want to scan for duplicates and then launch the scan. Once the scan is over and corrective action has been taken, your <\/span><b>Dropbox<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> account will be a lot cleaner than before.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dropbox is a cloud service designed to enable users to save their data onto the cloud without having to worry about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[16,18,19,17],"class_list":["post-49","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solutions","tag-dropbox-tips-and-tricks-to-maximize-space-without-paying","tag-get-more-dropbox-space-without-paying-anything","tag-guideline-on-getting-dropbox-space-without-paying-anything","tag-how-to-get-more-dropbox-storage-space-without-paying-for-it"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pictureecho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pictureecho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pictureecho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pictureecho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pictureecho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/pictureecho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306,"href":"https:\/\/pictureecho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions\/306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pictureecho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pictureecho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pictureecho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}