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Re:Get up to 4.5GB of extra space on Dropbox for free by mandreko on Friday February 10, 2012 @09:59AM (#3576012)
to get the space without finding 4.5GB of images:

find any jpg image (file.jpg)

create a large file (5GB): fsutil file createnew test.rar 5368709120

combine the 2 files: copy /b file.jpg + test.rar bigfile.jpg

format thumbstick

create "DCIM" folder on thumbstick

put bigfile.jpg in thumbstick

remove thumbstick and reinsert

use the autorun dialog to select to upload to dropbox

wait

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Re:Get up to 4.5GB of extra space on Dropbox for free by iddqd on Friday February 10, 2012 @11:20AM (#3576328)
Or in your favorite UNIX flavor:

export MEM_STICK=/Volumes/Data # Replace this with the path to your memory stick

mkdir $MEM_STICK/DCIM

cd /tmp

dd if=/dev/zero of=big.file block=1024 count=5242880

wget http://imgur.com/Y4Ixn.jpg

cat Y4Ixn.jpg big.file > $MEM_STICK/DCIM/big.file.jpg

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Re:Get up to 4.5GB of extra space on Dropbox for free by ljf on Friday February 10, 2012 @11:54AM (#3576473)
True if you want to game the system - if you actually want to help them test out there service just upload 5gig of photos and video - I'm sure most people have that?
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Re:Get up to 4.5GB of extra space on Dropbox for free by mandreko on Friday February 10, 2012 @02:47PM (#3577208)
For me, I already have all my gigs of photos in DropBox, so I had to come up with a way outside of uploading all those images again. I unlocked the first 2GB or so with legit iphone images, but to get the rest of the space, used this method.
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Re:Get up to 4.5GB of extra space on Dropbox for free by ouchiboy on Friday February 10, 2012 @03:57PM (#3577446)
Does Dropbox compress files? I did this and it only updated the image itself in record time, yet it accounts to 5GB of space in the box.
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Re:Get up to 4.5GB of extra space on Dropbox for free by dy on Friday February 10, 2012 @11:14AM (#3576293)
You can use mkfile 5g testfile.jpg on OSX.
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