Your internet service provide (ISP) probably sets a limit on the size of the attachments you can send or receive. I’ve occasionally run into situations where a client has tried to send a very large file, and even when zipped (digitally compressed), it won’t come through. This may also occur with multiple or very large digital photo attachments.
YouSendIt offers a solution by allowing you to send as many 1 GB files (that’s a lot of data!) as you’d like. For free. You don’t need to have an account, though by having one (they’re also free) you can send files to up to 100 people at once and have inbox and sent items folders to track what’s been sent and received. For fees, there are also business accounts available with power-user features.
I think YouSendIt’s a great solution for working around attachment size limits or for transferring huge files from one computer to another without having to rely on copying onto multiple CDs or zip drives. Since it requires uploading and downloading files via the Internet, though, you’ll still need to plan for the time it takes to transfer very large files. If you’ve got dial-up service, don’t even bother to try.
According to YouSendIt’s site, Mac users may be out of luck…Mac’s Safari browser doesn’t display YouSendIt’s progress bar properly.
Hi,
Just wanted to let you know that Mac users can use the YouSendIt service with the Firefox 1.5 browser and it works great.
Thanks, Rosie
I’ve been using http://www.BoltFile.com for ages now – and it works perfectly in Safari (on my mac) and FireFox/IE on PC.
It’s like YouSendIt but gives much greater control over the branding of pages that the recipients of your files see (i.e. logos and colors etc) – and generally seems a little more polished interface.
They also have a nifty inbox/sent items view that lets you re-send files, and integrations with Flickr and Facebook for sending images directly to those sites.
thanks
andy
2large2email (http://www.2large2email.com/) lets you transfers files of up to 2gb in size. Double the limit!