How To Send Large Files As Email Attachments - 8 Solutions
How To Send Large Files As Email Attachments - 8 Solutions
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Many email servers prevent you from sending (or the recipient from
receiving) large les over a certain size. When this problem happens most
users don’t know how to email large les. To send large les via email, you
can either upload your attachment to cloud storage and get a link to email
the recipient or use a le sharing service.
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Whatever method you choose, in the long run, you won’t be restricted by
size limits and you can reduce the clutter from your inbox too. We’ll show
you some easy ways to send large les for free.
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Gmail checks to see if your recipients have access to the le. If they don’t,
it’ll prompt you to change the sharing settings of your le stored in Drive
before sending the message. You can set permissions to prevent the le
from getting misused and send them to selected recipients.
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Once the le gets uploaded, choose if people can edit the le or only view
it. Select Change permissions and decide what you want to do with a le
you just shared. There are two options you can choose from. How to Stop Irrelevant YouTube
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Recipient can view: Others can copy or download your le without
signing in.
Recipient can edit: Others can edit, add or delete les in a shared
folder.
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icon and choose the le from your Dropbox account. A link gets attached,
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instead of a le in the email message.
As a recipient, you get rich previews of all Dropbox links shared in emails.
Just like attachments, you can use these links to download the les
directly from Gmail or add it to your Dropbox. With a free Dropbox
account, you get a maximum le size limit of only 2GB.
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feature. When you send an email of size more than 20MB, Mail Drop
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If the recipient also has macOS 10.10 or later, the attachment gets quietly
auto-downloaded in the background. And if you’re sending it to another
email provider, the message contains an indication of the le’s expiration
date and a Click to Download link.
With Mail Drop, you can send big les up to 5GB in size. You can send them
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from Apple Mail, the Mail app on iOS, and iCloud.com on Mac and PC. Mail
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iCloud storage. For more details, see Apple’s Mail Drop limits page.
Firefox Send is a useful option to transfer big les with people who don’t
want to rely on Google, Microsoft, or Apple. It lets you upload and encrypt
large les (up to 1GB) to share online. To use Firefox Send, you don’t have
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Once the uploading gets completed, Send creates a link which you can
then send it via email. At a time, you can send a link to 20 recipients (one
download per recipient). You can also set a password to encrypt the le.
Each link created by Send will expire after 24 hours. The le also gets
deleted from the Mozilla server and leaves no traces.
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You can email large les up to 5GB, and every single le should not exceed
200MB. Then click Encrypt Your Files option and set a password.
pCloud will not send the password to your recipient on your behalf. You
can share your les with 10 recipients at once. Type in their email
addresses in the Send to eld. Type an optional message and click Send
Files. Your recipients will receive an email link after a few hours. The link
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remains valid for seven days. You’ll get a reminder a day before the
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expiration date.
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Before sending the le, make sure to complete the veri cation procedure.
The free plan gives you a maximum le size limit of 4GB and ve sends per
month. The link remains valid for seven days.
The premium plan increases the limit to 8GB with 15–45 sends per month.
There is no limit on the downloads, and you can specify the validity of the
link from 1–14 days. DropSend uses 256-bit AES security to keep your
les secure.
The paid plan also gives you access to DropSend Direct. It’s a nifty drag-
and-drop uploader for Mac and PC to upload and send large les.
DropSend also offers Outlook plugin and mobile apps for Android and iOS.
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The premium plan starts with 25GB encrypted le transfer and remains
valid for six days. The paid plan also includes Outlook plugin, option to use
password protected download capabilities, and embed les on your
website with access control features. All plans include AES–256
encryption and 128-bit TLS encryption for end-to-end-transmission.
Also, remember that emails travel across multiple servers on its way to the
recipient. An attachment you send from an email service can get rejected
by another email provider. If you use Apple Mail, make sure to read this
piece on how to avoid common issues with attachments.
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