How to Share Large Files Online For Free
Hey, YouTube. It’s Tech Support Gone Bad and today I'm going to be showing you guys a cool website and a cool program that I found. Now the website is GetDropbox.com and the program is obviously Dropbox. Now you're probably wondering what does Dropbox do and what does the website do?
Well, basically they worked together to do one thing and that one thing is to let you share files with any computers that you want. So, if you just don’t have enough space on your flash drive or thumb drive or your email doesn’t let you send large files or you're just tired of all that stuff and you want a cheap, free way to be able to share large files up to 2 GB then download Dropbox.
To download Dropbox just click on the download button right here at GetDropbox.com and link to GetDropbox.com will be in the video description as always. So press the download the Dropbox and it should pop right here and just press save file. In this case I'm not going to save it because I already have it downloaded so I'm going to just press cancel and let’s take a look at my downloads and here it is. So I'm just going to double click on that which what you should do. After it has done downloading then press 1.
So I minimize this and this should pop up program files/Dropbox. I'm going to rename it to my Dropbox. You don’t have to do that. Press install and just wait for it to install. Now while this is going on I'm just going talk to you guys a little bit. Well, how Dropbox works is it gives you a folder inside of My Documents or wherever you choose to put it and you just drag and drop your files onto that folder as long as any other computer in your household or any other computer anywhere has Dropbox downloaded, all you have to do is sign in to your Dropbox account and they can access every file that is located in your Dropbox folder. So it just finished downloading and it’s going to pop just right here and it says “Welcome to Dropbox.”
You either to have click on New to Dropbox or I already have a Dropbox account. I'm going to click on New to Dropbox and press next. This is the second account I'm going to be trading so just bear with me here. Just fill in some information and email, TechSupportGoneBad@hotmail.com. Password, I'm not telling you guys that and just plain TSGB and you have to obviously agree to the terms of service and press next.
And then that is going to save select your Dropbox size up to 2 GB. It’s free or you can choose 50 GB or 100 GB and pay a certain amount of money per month. I'm just going to choose the 2GB and then press next. And then it’s just going to give a little tour and you don’t have to really listen to that because I'm going to obviously explain everything to you so I'm just going to press hit and finish. Click I want to choose where I want to put my Dropbox and just choose where I want to put. In this case I'm going to leave under My Documents and press finish and open my Dropbox. Now it’s going to finish it and open your Dropbox.
So here is everything. I already put some photos and some stuff in there for you but this is basically your Dropbox. Now whatever you want to put in there you can go ahead and put it there as long as it is on your 2 GB. So maybe text document, some photos and stuff like that. I would go ahead and delete those because it is just taking up some unnecessary space. I'm going to leave those. After such, I'm going to show you how the website works.
So what you want to do is go to GetDropbox.com again and sign in to your account that you just made. Now my email, Tech Support Gone Bad with the password you get to choose remember me. I'm not going to do that for now. I'm going to press log in. Now once you logged in it is going to show you everything that you have in that folder. Amazing, isn’t it? And add your photos, the public folder and it have that texting that said this is your Dropbox.
Now you can either upload your files from here or just go ahead and drag and drop into the folder and it will just update on this website. It is pretty much the same thing. What you could do is go ahead and click on your account for your information and it is going to say account type, free, 2 GB and it is going to say how much of your Dropbox you're using. In this case, it is .1% because I have not done anything. You have your account settings. It will give you your email. You could change your account and all that and you could click on manage computers and I have two computers for some reason here.
But what you could do is press add a Computer and Add another Computer and yeah, that is pretty much what Dropbox does. Now which one do you get another computer to access? This is go to another computer and go to GetDropbox.com, just like that and log in to the same account.
So once you have log in to the same account you want to press account, manage computers and press add a computer on that new computer. Once you add a computer it is going to take you to this page where you download Dropbox and click on download Dropbox from that computer. Once you click on download Dropbox in this case, click on No, thanks. I already have my account and it will just do all that download everything and it will give you the same folder and whenever you want as long as you want computer updates or folder to other computer it will get it to so it automatically refresh the folder and the other computer gets it.
So it is really simple and instant. You could just share your files very easily like that and yet that is a very, very cool thing. That is the Dropbox, GetDropbox.com again and program name is Dropbox so I hope this program will help you guys out. I know that it is going to help me out and I hope you guys enjoyed this tutorial and if you did please subscribe to my YouTube channel at YouTube.com/TechSupportGoneBad and take a look at my website at Tech SupportGoneBad.com.
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