Blog » Need to send large files? Try Dropbox
by Aidan Curran, Stellar Web Works
Sending large files by email can be problematic. Email services have file size limits for emails, so if your attached files are over the limit, your email will not reach the recipient(s). Even if you are within the file limits of both your mail server and the recipients’ mail servers, large attachments can clog email systems and cause delays.
A better way to share large files is to use a great easy-to-use free service called Dropbox. Here’s how to do it:
- Click this link and create your account
- It will then prompt you to install Dropbox, go ahead and install it
- You will now have a Dropbox folder on your computer which looks like any other folder. But it is a special folder because you can use it to share files with anyone else or to make your files available on any other computer
Once you have Dropbox installed, here’s how you can use it to send us files:
- Open your Dropbox folder and make a new sub-folder inside it
- Drag all the files you want to share into that folder
- Right click on the new folder and from the Dropbox menu choose ‘Share this folder…’ (this will open a window in your web browser)
- Enter the email address(es) of who you want to share it with and click the ‘Share folder’ button.
Created on 14th April 2011 and filed under General.
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December 5th, 2011 at 8:59 pm
Thanks for your help. I’m giving dropbox a try.
David A.