Can someone with a paid account share their storage space with me?

gd1235 wrote:

... so even tho this upload it is to HIS DROPBOX ...

That's the part that you're getting wrong. When you're a member of a shared folder, you're NOT uploading to his Dropbox. The shared folder exists in YOUR account as well. Anything added to the folder syncs with his copy of the folder. If you use a File Request instead, you're uploading directly to his Dropbox and not using your own space.

gd1235 wrote:

so for each file that I need to upload to his dropbox he will send me a single file request?

As long as he keeps the file request open, you can use the same one each month to upload files to his account. If it expires or he closes it, he would need to create a new one for you to use.

make sense - how does he use the file request? will this feature allowed me to add file anywhere he gives me access to? ie. if he sends one file request i can freely drop off a file in whatever folder i want or do i have to get him to send me a file request for each folder? thank you very very much 

Hi gd1235, 

You can send or share this link to the one creating the file request for you to upload files that goes straight to their Dropbox account and doesn't use your space but theirs: https://help.dropbox.com/share/create-file-request

Then if you want to find out how to upload files when you get the file request invite , you can refer on this link for your perusal: https://help.dropbox.com/share/received-file-request

Hope this helps

gd1235 wrote:

if he sends one file request i can freely drop off a file in whatever folder i want or do i have to get him to send me a file request for each folder?

You won't see where the file is being uploaded. The feature allows him to specify a folder to use for the request. Everything you upload through that request will go into the folder that he specified. You can't view anything in that folder, including the files you've uploaded. It is purely an upload only method of sending files.

Hi roga, 

Thank you we have made the decision to upgrade but now as we are an accounting firm we will do it under our main email account - if we need to have this feature with this client ( ie. able to sync to his dropbox, how would it work? do we create the account under the main email address, then upgrade and then get the client to invite us? OR do we get the client to invite us THEN we create the account and upgrade? thank you :)