HOW TO UPLOAD TO 4SHARED
* Assumes you are using windows and chrome (browser). Assumes you have adblockplus installed in chrome. if you don't have adblockplus, open new tab in chrome, type in adblockplus in address bar and press enter on keyboard, find correct version for chrome and install it (it is free), close browser and reopen it.
* Example below is windows-based and chrome. Example below uses a fake example with a fake file called "apple pie recipe.docx".
* If you are not windows user, I cannot help you or teach you. the steps below should also work in firefox. If you don't understand what I mean, I cannot help you either because I really cannot make my examples any simpler.
*4shared will be called 4s for simplicity's sake.
1) Download the files you want to mirror
2) Put them somewhere you can see on your desktop. I suggest making a new folder on your desktop called "uploads" and put all files that you want to mirror inside that folder. For example, I want to upload an apple pie recipe today in a word document and I have lots of other recipes in word documents to upload as well, so I will create a folder called "recipes" and put all the recipe documents I want to upload into this folder.
3) go to 4shared website. it is www(dot)4shared(dot)com. change (dot) to a real dot when inputting address into the address bar
4) Do you have a 4s account? If you do, log in. The option to do this is close to the top right hand side of the screen. After that, go to step 15
5) if you don't have 4s acc, make a 4shared account. This is very useful because 4shared won't let you download anything from it unless you have an account and you are logged into it.
6) to make a 4shared account, go to the 4s website and look at the right hand side for the words "join now". somewhere under those words will be the words "or fill in the fields below".
7) once you have found "or fill the fields below", do exactly that by writing in your email, password, confirming password etc. you have to use an email address that you use often. after that, click the yellow "sign up" button
8) you must do step 7. doing this is how you make your 4shared account. memorise your password. if you lose/forget it, it will be lost forever.
9) after performing step 7, be patient. the system can take several minutes, up to 30 mins if you are unlucky with internet connection like me
10) after the website successfully loads you will be at the 4s sign up page. since you have already typed in your email address and password in step 7, you can ignore all that. instead, you must zero in on the part where it asks you to write your name. you must do this. after you type in your name (you can use fake name), click the yellow button that says "sign in" or "sign up" or something along those lines.
11) if you do step 10 correctly, you will get a message saying that an email has been sent to you and you must confirm it before you can use 4s. open a new tab in browser, don't do anything to this new tab yet
12) close the tab you used to sign up for a 4s account. in the new tab, log into your email address that you used to sign up and confirm your 4s account. this message can be in spam, so look everywhere for this email. once you find it, do whatever the message says to confirm your account. you must do this before you upload or download anything.
13) there will be a blue button in the message that says "verify now". click it. you will be taken to a page where they ask you to recommend 4s to facebook friends. say no. whenever there are these kinds of ads, say no. you do this by looking for the "no" button or the clicking the words "skip this step".
14) after clicking the words "skip this step", you will be at new page. there will be a popup telling you that you have successfully signed up to 4s and have a working 4s account now. this popup will also ask you to install some kind of app. say no by ignoring it. you do this by closing this popup. close the popup by clicking the x at the top right side.
15) you will now be in your 4s account. on left hand side, you will see a skinny column with words that say "my 4shared", "recycle bin", "shared with me" etc. at the bottom of the left hand side, you can see how much space you have used when you upload files. pay attention to traffic. notice you have 3gb of traffic a day and 30gb of traffic a month. in simple terms, think of daily traffic as a bar of chocolate that can be broken into 30 pieces. you are giving out this chocolate every day, and you can only give 30 people chocolate because you only have 30 pieces of choco per day. If Mary is person number 31, she won't have any choco because you have no more to give her. Even if Mary throws a tantrum, you can do nothing because you really have no more chocolate to give. Therefore, if someone tries to download your file and can't, it means they are in Mary's situation. They have no choice but to wait until the next day to try to download again. Or if they are unlucky and you have given out all your choco for the month (that is, you have so many people downloading from you that your monthly traffic is used up), then Mary will have no choice but to come back the followingh month to try to download again. Do you understand what I am saying?
16) the rest of the screen is your 4shared space where you can upload files. if you never used 4s before, it will say "this folder is empty". if you used 4s to upload before, there will be files here.
17) minimise your browser. go to your desktop and open the folder with the files you want to upload. click and drag them into the empty space that says "empty cloud drive" in your browser. done correctly, you will get a grey box at the bottom of your screen saying that X number of files have been added to the transfer/upload queue. pretend that you want to upload only 1 file called "apple pie recipe.docx". go to your desktop, open the recipes folder, click on "apple pie recipe" and and drag it into the chrome browser into the big space
18) when your file is uploading, at the bottom of your screen, you will see a progress bar that tells you how your upload is going, how fast it is etc.
19) when upload finishes, screen will turn blue. you will get popup saying upload successful. somewhere in this popup is very small words saying something like "allow people to search for my files". it will be ticked. the words are different, but the meaning is roughly the same.
20) untick those words by clicking the correct box. you should do this because don't want people to purposely search for your files. you don't want people to search for your files and find them because it may draw unwanted attention to it and 4s may delete your file and your account. after you have unticked "i want to allow people to search for my files", click "ok" in this pop when it says this.
21) after you have closed popup, you will now see the file you have just uploaded. minimise browser
22) open wordpad/notepad, type "apple pie recipe" or the name of the file you have just uploaded. press enter on the keyboard to create a space.
23) maximise browser, go to the file you have just uploaded, right click it. after that, choose "get links". you will end up with a popup, you have to manually copy the link by clicking on the http address inside this popup until it highlights in bright blue. after that, right click and choose "copy"
24) now, go to notepad and paste the link you have just copied there. press enter on keyboard twice
25) type in new file name. save wordpad file.
26) open another different browser such as firefox or opera, paste the new link you have just copied into the address bar there
27) press enter on keyboard.
28) wait for page to load
29) try to download. this is how you test your link to see if (a) it works, (b) upload was successful. if it works, good.
30) close firefox. go back to chrome where your have uploaded "apple pie recipe".
31) the popup where you copied the link from 4s is still open. close the popup by clicking the "done" button
32) upload another file by starting the process from step 15 to 32.
33) when you have uploaded all the files you want and saved them according to their correct names in wordpad/notepad, copy and paste everything there into a comment here