Avoid the clinginess of attachments
How big is your email quota? If you know, you’ve probably exceeded it at least once (or gotten really close). Perhaps it was a work account and you were scolded by the IT trolls, setting off a frantic attachment deletion campaign? Or maybe it was just your Gmail account, clogged by the ginormous (sp?) photos your parents sent after a family trip. Maybe the problem was compounded by your sent mail folder, where emails you sent to others were counted against your meager space allowance. The reply-all emails with attachments resulted in 100 copies of the same file. What a waste!
The good news, my brothers and sisters, is that there are other ways to send files. These services will reduce the scoldings while even providing some additional services that you probably hadn’t considered. Major disclaimer note: If you are using this for work, your company may have security concerns about using outside services. Be very careful not to violate any security policies!
My favorite file sending service
Perfectly named yousendit.com does one thing – you upload a file (100MB or less on a free account), you say who you are and who you want to send it to and the site sends a link for download. Files are available for several days, after which they are securely deleted.
Runner up: usend.io
This one gets the award for brevity: there are two fields – file and email(s). The first is for the filename and the second for a list of email addresses. This service keeps the files for quite a while and is based on the file-sharing service drop.io.
Also great!
If your file is larger than 100MB, it’s time for the big guns:
TransferBigFiles.com is the least pretty of the bunch, but with a 2GB limit (that’s ~2000MB), you’ll be able to send some very large files.
Hopefully, this is a quick fix for your emailing woes (kurt).
~ab
Thanks for a quick fix!
Should I be worried if I just keep everything in Gmail (sent/inbox/trash, etc) as they advertise no need to clean out anything? Does that slow down the activity?
Hi Bill! Keeping everything in Gmail should not have any effect the speed of your experience. This is because the files are actually stored on a Google server. You Gmail page doesn’t think about any attachments that haven’t been requested specifically (either by selecting that email or by clicking the attachment itself).
A friend just needed this fix.
I thought there’d be buddha-nature with this
Thanks Alex !