Most of my digital activities are centered around Dropbox. I can access my documents from everywhere, share files with my friends and co-workers, quickly send somebody a screenshot and backup all the pictures from my Nexus 5 automatically. Long story short – it’s one of the best pieces of software out there.

However, most people only have 2GB of free Dropbox space, which is definitively not enough if you want to backup more than just a few documents and pictures. Luckily enough, there are some quick ways to increase the amount of free Dropbox space in just under 5 minutes.

Get 2GB of Dropbox space in less than 5 minutes

If you are one of the people who have just 2GB of available space, here’s a quick solution for you to almost double it. After you have created a Dropbox account and downloaded the desktop client visit this page and follow these steps:

Complete the “Get Started” tour – 250MB Connect your Facebook account – 125MB Connect your Twitter account – 125MB Follow Dropbox on Twitter – 125MB Write a short text why you love Dropbox – 125MB Download Mailbox for iOS or Android and connect it with Gmail and Dropbox – 1GB Download the Dropbox app for iOS or Android and complete the mobile “Get Started” tour

And there you have it. 2GB of extra free Dropbox space. But you can get a lot more.

How I got more than 40GB of free Dropbox space

Over the past few years I have accumulated 41.1GB of Dropbox space. Although I use just about a third of it, it’s still great to never worry about running out of space. This is what you can do to increase your free space:

1. Invite your friends – up to 16GB

If you share your unique link (that you can get here) with your friends, you will get an extra 500MB for each friend that signs up and installs Dropbox. You can get 16GB of space by inviting 32 people. So share it on Facebook, Twitter and install Dropbox on all your family members’ computers. You could also set up a fake Facebook account with the Dropbox logo as the profile picture, connect it with Tinder and put your link in your description *wink wink*.

2. Enable camera upload with Carousel – 3GB (not working anymore)

Update: Dropbox shut down Carousel on March 31st 2016 🙁

A while back Dropbox was giving away 5GB of free space for all those who tried a beta version of the camera upload feature. If you didn’t get the 5GB back then, now you can do the same by installing Carousel for iOS or Android and enable “Camera Upload” to automatically backup your pictures. This would give you an additional 5GB.