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How do you share large files online?
- Thread starter Felon
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I believe that MS does an online live space that you can use. You could any ISP web space if you have it. Both of these involve a 3rd party to host your file.
If you leave your PC on whilst the other person collects the material then you could run an FTP server and tell the other user your address / ftp password. This is probably the best way to do it. They connect in and grab your file. It means faffing with port forwarding tho if you use a NAT based router.
Finally, although a bit of a chore, you can zip the file using either the windows built in compressed directory or better yet 7Zip which compresses smaller. You might get it below 5Mb. Then last resorts could be splitting the file up into chunks and emailing them. I know that 7Zip allows you to do that by using the -v option (creating volumes). So -v4M I believe creates splits of 4 meg each. There are a lot of web pages about doing this.
If you leave your PC on whilst the other person collects the material then you could run an FTP server and tell the other user your address / ftp password. This is probably the best way to do it. They connect in and grab your file. It means faffing with port forwarding tho if you use a NAT based router.
Finally, although a bit of a chore, you can zip the file using either the windows built in compressed directory or better yet 7Zip which compresses smaller. You might get it below 5Mb. Then last resorts could be splitting the file up into chunks and emailing them. I know that 7Zip allows you to do that by using the -v option (creating volumes). So -v4M I believe creates splits of 4 meg each. There are a lot of web pages about doing this.
Aus_Snow
First Post
There are a few like this, and I haven't tried any of them personally, including this one, but I've downloaded from a few (inc. this one) with no problems:
http://www.4shared.com/
Hope it's some use, or leads to something that is.
edit --- oh hang on a sec, you just want 'private sharing' right? I'll see if I can find something more along those lines...
Is google groups any use?
http://www.4shared.com/
Hope it's some use, or leads to something that is.
edit --- oh hang on a sec, you just want 'private sharing' right? I'll see if I can find something more along those lines...
Is google groups any use?
Steel_Wind
Legend
That's why they made Pando. http://www.pando.com/
I was just suggesting that if you zip them you might get them smaller than your email limit or that you can compress and split them into chunks less than your email limit. Then you email them. I thought that the issue was that you could not email them because they were too big and not that using email itself was the problem.Felon said:
If it's files you're going to send people and be done with it (as opposed to people needing to grab the files 6 months from now), there's yousendit.com. 100 Meg limit on a free account. File lives on their site for 7 days and you can send an email to whomever you want to download it.
Queen_Dopplepopolis
First Post
Do you have a gmail account? I work in publishing and frequently send stuff (read: giant 700+ page manuscripts in various formats including .pdf) back and forth from my personal account (gmail) to my work account and have never had any trouble.
James Heard
Explorer
I'll second the Gmail account idea. I've got a separate gmail account that I use just to transfer stuff to myself and it's pretty awesome.
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