[TUT] How to increase your Dropbox referral space

by **Admin** Tue Jul 29, 2014 2:35 pm

I have seen many people on HZ looking for ways to increase their Dropbox space. Of course there are normal ways to increase it, you can get up to 16 gb extra space by referring 32 people. But if you want to do this quick & without referring is this tutorial made for you. Black Hat

Before you proceed, be aware
If you're afraid of getting your account banned, don't do this or just create a new account!!

1. Sign in with your account on dropbox.com. Save your referral link.

2. Download [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] and install it.

3. Download an [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] (you can also use any windows or linux iso/cd if you want)

4. In virtual box manager, create a virtual machine for your ubuntu iso by pressing "New" and following the steps.

5. Start the virtual machine. In the first run wizard, select the ubuntu iso as your installation media. The virtual machine will now load using the ubuntu iso.

6. On the ubuntu welcome screen, choose "try ubuntu". Ubuntu will now start up.

7. In ubuntu, open firefox and go to dropbox.com. Download dropbox for ubuntu. (Download -> ubuntu 32 or 64 bit -> open .deb file in ubuntu software center -> in software center, click install)

8. Run dropbox. On the startup screen, choose "I already have a dropbox account".

9. Make a snapshot of the current state. (In the virtualbox menu: Machine -> Take Snapshot)

10. Use your referral link to sign up for a dropbox account. You don't have to use an existing email address to sign up, it will just accept anything that looks like one. You can either do this step in your normal OS or in virtualbox itself.

11. Enter the email address and password of the account that you just created. Click forward. Now you should've gained 500 mb extra space on your original dropbox account.

12. Close the virtual box and return it to the snapshot (Machine -> Close -> Power off Machine & select Restore current snapshot)

13. In the virtualbox manager, start the virtual machine again by pressing start and repeat the steps 10->13.

It should only take a few minutes per referral, so it's fast enough to do once you've set it up. Thumbsup

If this doesn't work for you, try:
-changing the mac address of the virtual machine
-changing your IP address
-booting back to the live iso/cd and continue from step 5