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Emailing large files

Post #1 by modelman093 » Thu May 17, 2012 12:51 pm

Does anyone have any experience/recommendation of the various third party applications for sending large files by email? I need to send a 14.2mb pdf and my mail client (Thunderbird) does not like it!
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Re: Emailing large files

Post #2 by mambo » Thu May 17, 2012 1:15 pm

have you thought about compressing it with winzip or winrar?
winrar can also split it into smaller pieces.

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Re: Emailing large files

Post #3 by Holger » Thu May 17, 2012 1:50 pm

PDF-files cannot be compressed very much.
And splitting the files is only possible with tools, not with Adobe Reader.

You can use yousendit.com for large files.
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Re: Emailing large files

Post #4 by modelman093 » Thu May 17, 2012 5:49 pm

Thank you for the suggestions - much appreciated. Someone who called me on another matter suggested Dropbox. I've loaded it and it's simple to use and free up to a limit that will probably exceed my requirements.
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Re: Emailing large files

Post #5 by Holger » Thu May 17, 2012 7:06 pm

Perfect!
Some resources:
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