Introduction:
Wondering why can’t you’re able to send the file to your recipients. Because this mailing software has certain limits on maximum file size limit in it. For Gmail it’s 25 MB, Outlook has 20 MB and Yahoo mail has 25 MB.
These tech giants also carry solutions with them. In this article, we’re presenting 3 instant solutions that will help you to resolve this email large file issue.
- The Cloud storage technology.
- Compress the file.
- USB flash drives.
Upload the file through Cloud Storage Service
The first one is to upload your file to the Cloud service. By following this method, you can send files up to 15 GB for Free!
Nowadays, every tech company tries to attract more customers. And because of this tech users gets a variety of different offers on daily basis.
And in our century it’s cloud service. The tech giants like Google, Apple, Microsoft, and many companies, give their users, a storage service. You can upload any file, by creating a free account in their system. Google is offering 15 GB of cloud storage for free, while on the other hand their competitors Apple and Microsoft offer 5 GB. And another company like Dropbox offers 2GB for free.
If you are an Android user, you have to simply upload your file in Google Drive and share your link. By clicking on the shared link your recipients can download the file. And same goes for Apple and Microsoft users, you can upload the files in iCloud and OneDrive.
Whoever has access link to the file, can download the file but you can change this in the Gmail setting, and then only recipients will have access to your file.
If you want more storage you can check out their plans. But in a nutshell, OneDrive offers 50 GB a month for $2, and in Microsoft 365 Home they offer up to 1 TB. Google will give you 100 GB for $1.99 a month, and it’s all the way up to 30 TB for $149.99 a month. Apple has different pricing for different continents, for Asia, it’s 2 TB for $14.99 a month.
Compress your files in a Zip Files
Here we are at the second option, in this, you don’t need to buy any storage or upload any file. The only thing is you just need to compress your large files or folders.
Compressing the file is a good option, you won’t lose your primary data. This will reduce the size of the file up to 90%, this also helps you to save disk space. It’s not any magic thing, the computer just makes a version of a file with the same data, which will be smaller than the lots of smaller uncompressed files.
There are simple steps to compress files. You can right-click the file and click on compress the file and then the same title with ‘.zip’ or ‘.rar’ will appear. Or else you can use software like 7-zip. You can use this software that generally supports Microsoft, Mac, and Linux. You can also put a password on the file using 7-zip.
Use a USB flash drive for file sharing
This traditional method is still not out-dated yet. In fact, this is the most secure form of file sharing. You’ll get a USB drive from 4GB to 1TB and the best thing about them is they don’t charge you every month. But their limitation is you can’t share the file with a person who’s in another city.
If you’re co-workers, a USB flash drive is recommended. As it helps you to keep your data more secure, and also if you don’t have a stable internet connection, USB will help you, as in markets there are many 3rds Gen USB that can write 286 MB/s.
To summarize, if you want to send files far from your location you can use cloud storage. If you’re not that large files, you can compress them. If you’re co-workers you can use 3.0 USB for file sharing.
See Also…
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