Dropbox is running a beta test on its new Experimental Dropbox 1.3.12 software right now and will give you 4.5 GB of storage (at 500MB increments) to test out some of the new features in Dropbox beta. What the new feature does is enable the automatic imports of photos and videos from cameras, smartphones and SD cards. Basically, when you plug in a camera to your computer, Dropbox will start uploading the pictures to your Dropbox and you’ll start getting free storage. Neat!
Yup, Dropbox says:
During this beta period, we are also offering additional free space to test automatic uploading of photos and videos. For every 500MB of photos and videos automatically uploaded, you’ll receive another 500MB space bonus, up to 4.5GB total.
Of course, as with any test software, you should be careful with backing up your backups before you dive right in, but this definitely seems like a dead easy way to grab 4.5GB of Dropbox space. Just plug a camera in and keep uploading photos! Download and read about the Experimental Dropbox 1.3.12 right here and go get your free gigs. [Dropbox via Ghacks via Slickdeals]
Gordon
Friday, February 3, 2012 at 9:22 AMThat’s jolly good and all but what if you have a low bandwidth cap.
Sylphier
Friday, February 3, 2012 at 9:24 AMBad luck to you I guess?
olearymo
Friday, February 3, 2012 at 11:57 AMThat’s jolly good and all but what if you don’t have a computer.
That’s jolly good and all but what if you’ve been decapitated.
That’s jolly good and all but what if…
CKKumar
Friday, February 3, 2012 at 3:42 PMDropbox is going for the MegaUpload customers.
Zan
Friday, February 3, 2012 at 6:07 PMYou can use the following method to get 4GB extra space without having to upload 4GB.
1.So I copied 4GB on to an SD card.
2.Inserted the SD card into my computer running windows 7 32bit and selected import pirctures and videos
using dropbox from the Autoplay dialog box.
3.Let dropbox do its import thing (where the dropbox icon in the task bar turns into a camera).
4.Once that is finished let dropbox do its indexing (hover over dropbox icon in the task bar and you will
see it indexing the files)
5.Once dropbox has finished indexing “pause syncing” delete the files in the newly created dropbox folder
named “Camera Uploads”
6.“resume syncing” and I got my free 4gb without having to upload the 4GB.
James Ray Cox
Saturday, February 4, 2012 at 12:51 AM^Confirmed, thanks for the tip.
George
Saturday, February 4, 2012 at 3:50 AMAlso confirmed! Thanks. Besides that, the trick about hiding a big file inside a .jpg also works. I hid a big .iso inside a .jpg and dropbox successfully imported that picture. 5GB in 15 minutes! :)
What about SkyDrive?
Friday, February 3, 2012 at 9:31 AMSkyDrive offers 25GB for free as well as 5GB synced storage on top of that… Just explaining the marketplace to people who are looking for an online storage solution (now that MegaUpload has gone away)
Sam D
Friday, February 3, 2012 at 10:28 AMIs there a Mac/iOS/Linux client for that?
Import is the answer
Friday, February 3, 2012 at 10:51 AMYes, it is web-based for the 25GB, not too sure about the 5GB synced…
Daz28
Friday, February 3, 2012 at 9:37 AMAnyone know if you can add this 4.5GB to an existing account?
Nicholas
Friday, February 3, 2012 at 11:43 AMI think that’s the only way to do it.. you download and use this new fangled client with AV uploading, and it will start adding to your account.
Greg
Friday, February 3, 2012 at 9:42 AMI’m pretty sure it was Bill Gates that said “640k should be enough for anyone” :)
Mark F
Friday, February 3, 2012 at 10:52 AMI got 50GB of free storage with Box.net, and all I had to do was sign up from within their iOS app. Bye bye Dropbox.
Andrew
Friday, February 3, 2012 at 3:41 PMI did the same, but Box impose crippling limitations to the size of the files that you can upload to their service. You have to pay to lift the restriction. I gave up.
Nano
Friday, February 3, 2012 at 4:35 PMAccording to their pricing page, with the free account, you can’t upload files bigger than 25Mb…. even paying, the max file size you can upload is 1Gb files… mmm that’s a NO NO for me… (I work with video files that are usually quite big)
Tim
Saturday, February 4, 2012 at 1:59 PMProblem with box.net is they dont offer the free account any syncing support like dropbox, you have to pay for it.
monkeymind
Friday, February 3, 2012 at 11:06 AMSo, you upload 4.5gb of pics and vids. Can you then delete them and use the 4.5gb for other stuff?
Crispy
Friday, February 3, 2012 at 11:46 AM^This?
Will
Friday, February 3, 2012 at 1:35 PMWorked for me got the 4.5GBs removed teh photos and can use it for anything now. Also helped in Beta for a great program. Double win!