8 ways to upload files to Dropbox without installing a client

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

They will come in handy if you have sat down at someone else's computer or your device has little memory.

1. Request documents from other people

Do your friends, colleagues, or family members have tons of files to send to you? Open the Dropbox web client in a browser, click Files → File Requests → Create File Request. Write in the window that opens what kind of images or documents you want to receive, and then enter the email address of the person from whom you are requesting them.

The addressee will receive an email asking them to download the required data for you. However, it is not at all necessary that he has a Dropbox account. It will be enough for him to press the big blue button and choose what exactly to send to you.

2. Upload files via Balloon.io

Its usefulness has diminished slightly since Dropbox added a file request feature to its web client. Nevertheless, Balloon.io still works great and can be used as an alternative to file hosting requests.

The principle is this: you provide the service with access to your Dropbox, and it creates a separate folder there, and you are given a special link. Open it in a browser or transfer it to the one from whom you want to receive files.

Any items you drag into the browser window will be automatically uploaded to the Balloon.io folder in your Dropbox. You don't need to enter any usernames and passwords - just save the link. Comfortable!

3. Save attachments to Gmail

Chrome users will appreciate a special extension that allows you to save email attachments to Dropbox directly from the Gmail interface. Install the program, open the desired email and hover over the attachment. The file hosting icon will appear under the cursor.

In addition, you can save attachments from emails through the Dropbox add-on, which is built right into the sidebar of Google mail. To install it, click the plus sign in the panel and select Dropbox for Gmail.

Then open any email with attachments and click on the file hosting icon in the sidebar, and the add-on will prompt you to choose what and where to save.

4. Copy emails in full via Save Emails to Dropbox

For those who do not need attachments, but the letters themselves, the extension will come in handy. It converts correspondence into PDF, TXT, HTML or EML formats, and then uploads the received data to the repository.

Install the extension and give it access to the folder in Dropbox. Then click on the "Save" button that appears on the toolbar → Save to Dropbox. Select the folder in which the letter should be, its preferred format and click Save.

5. Email files to Dropbox

Using the Send to Dropbox service, you can send any files to yourself via email - they will be automatically uploaded to the cloud storage.

This is a one-stop solution, since email can be sent even from older Android devices that no longer support the official hosting client. Just save the email address that the service will give you and send all the files you want to upload to Dropbox.

6. Save files automatically via IFTTT or Zapier

The IFTTT and Zapier services are a kind of "internet automation". They can do almost anything you want with your data on the web.

To automatically manage files, you need to create (or activate ready-made) so-called recipes - simple sequences of actions. They work on the principle “the event you specified happened - the required operation was completed”.

With IFTTT and Zapier, you can automatically save to Dropbox your Telegram and Facebook photos, Evernote notes, Instagram favorites, SoundCloud favorite songs …

Just choose the recipe you like, activate it and give the service access to Dropbox.

7. Download a lot of files from the links

The URL to Dropbox web app can save files you linked to to the cloud. You can feed the service up to 100 pieces at a time.

This is especially useful if you want to upload to Dropbox, for example, all images from a page. First, we get their addresses using this - you need to install it, open a page with the content of interest, click the corresponding icon and click Copy.

And then copy the URL to Dropbox into the empty field and click Save to Dropbox.

8. Download files from the browser via Download to Dropbox

This tiny Chrome extension lets you download files and pictures from the Internet to Dropbox by right-clicking on them and choosing Download to Dropbox from the context menu. Very fast and easy.