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Easiest site for people to email large files
virginskyfan
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Looking for advice on this one please .I have used yousendit before but clients find it slightly difficult in that It can sometimes ask them to set up an account.
Anyone aware of an easy compression uploading format like yousendit that is use friendly for the novice user
Anyone aware of an easy compression uploading format like yousendit that is use friendly for the novice user
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I thought about dropbox but does the user not have to install it on their machine?
Gmail account, you can use Google Drive.
Those are about 5 GB each free storage space, not sure on an individul file size but you can look that up. Much larger than an Email attachment size that's for sure, 10 GB for Google Drive.
Details of how to share folders with others is in their help pages.
Once the file is in the public folder, you right click on it and save the url to clipboard. Paste this url into email to whover needs to download the file.
Thye do not need a dropbox account.
Google Docs is a bit easier, but it still isn't straightforward.
By far the easiest method is to get a password to access someone's server and do it by FTP with a program like Filezilla.
but it really is the easiest way
www.wetransfer.com
What if someone does not have a server?
gmail does the same these days.
Just tried doing it from GMail and it said attachments exceed 25MB limit. Perhaps you can upload to Google Drive and then send an email from there?
There was also no button you could press from the email compose window that would then let you browse google drive for attachments.
Whilst GMail is still my primary email account, accessed through mobile clients and mailbird, I've been finding the web interface a lot messier than outlook.com for a while now.
The beauty of the outlook.com way (especially for tech noobs) is that you never leave the email interface when sending. The attachments are seamlessly uploaded to skydrive without you having to do it, from your perspective it's just like sending an ordinary email with a small attachment.
And for photos, outlook.com and skydrive can display them all in-email for the recipient, it gives an album-scrolling type interface so you're not having to click a link into someone's skydrive or anything.
I'm not a huge fan of the new interface for gmail.
but when you hover on the paperclip next to i pops up some symbols. the one that looks like the recycling symbol is google drive.
when you click that it opens the drag and drop upload dialogue or you can browse your google drive.
equally if i try to add a large attachment it warns that it is over 25MB and suggest sending with google drive.
for me anyway. maybe you opted out of a new theme, don't have google drive, or i opted in to something?
How strange, I went back to gmail after reading this post of yours, the google drive icon definitely didn't pop up.
Then I went into settings, the only thing I changed was to make sure "always use https" was enabled.
Now when I go into the compose windows the Google drive icon appears! Thanks for getting me to persist, it's pretty handy to know about this.
Having had a quick browse through the GMail settings (haven't been in there in a while) and seeing how you can collapse compose windows etc, GMail seems to definitely be a lot more capable and flexible for power users.
I think most people, like me, aren't power users and the interface becomes cluttered rather than useful.
I use Google's Picasa service for my photos but it's unsuitable for my videos as there is a 1GB size limit for uploading, which is a bit odd as my 200GB space on Google Drive is shared with Picasa.
you can copy and email a link to enable anyone to download a selected file.
I just also found dropitto.me, which enables users to upload files to your dropbox.
I imagine other services are similar, though.
i find dropbox easier than yousendit, and i no longer use yousendit.
hey and if that doesnt work there is always the good old usbstick in mail :P