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Large Images

Aug 1, 2016 9:16PM PDT

Hello all. Need to send some huge (think Trump huge) image files to my buddies. It's hard to transfer these because the size is large and need to send multiple files. Compression doesn't seem to help, so if you have any file transfer ideas would appreciate it. Speed would be nice! Love

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I use Dropbox for such transfers.
Aug 1, 2016 9:50PM PDT

Usually about 2 GB. More than that and I mail it.

Post was last edited on August 2, 2016 12:08 AM PDT

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Box
Aug 3, 2016 2:40AM PDT

Yea i've found the download/upload speeds to be too slow for those services. Emailing it using gmail and drive is also too slow.

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Re: speed
Aug 3, 2016 4:17AM PDT

The speed is limited by your upload speed. Pay a little bit more than you do now for a nice 100 mbps upload glass fiber connection and you'll see the problem is solved.

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Re: send large file
Aug 2, 2016 12:09AM PDT

I use wetransfer.com in such cases. Even easier than dropbox:
1. Give the e-mailaddresses of the receivers.
2. Browse to the file(s)
3. Press Send
Done.

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I use Apple Mail for that,
Aug 2, 2016 4:45AM PDT

it sends large attachments via a different route rather than your usual mail server

It's called Mail Drop and has a 5GB limit

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Post was last edited on August 2, 2016 4:47 AM PDT

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Limit
Aug 3, 2016 2:41AM PDT

5gb limit is too small sadly. Thanks anyways.

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Re: 5 GB is not enough
Aug 3, 2016 3:00AM PDT

With wetransfer.com the limit for the free service is a 2 GB file. If you take a paid account, the limit is a 20 GB file.

The alternative is to find a web hosting company where you can get enough file space to copy all your files to with ftp, and let your buddies download it from there with ftp also. Most likely it isn't free either.

Twenty years ago, there were a lot of split and join utilities that let you split a 1 MB file into 3 files less than 360 kB. Then you could copy those 3 files to 3 floppies, take them with you and use the join program to make the original file on another PC.
Great trick. You use the split part, your buddies use the join part and you can transfer a file in as many parts as needed via any service, even email. A 10 GB file is only 1000 parts of 10 MB, if both your email and those of your buddies support that.

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Download Speed
Aug 3, 2016 2:41AM PDT

How's the download speed for people with the link? Is 40 gb gonna take 40 hours?

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That's math.
Aug 3, 2016 6:06PM PDT

Since I don't know your or their internet speed, I can't answer.

Given the size of the files, have your IT staff consider setting up a FTP server.

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Large Images
Aug 18, 2016 6:54AM PDT

Sendspace works best, recently i need to send large number of files and google drive and yahoo didnot support it. But i have send nearly 300 large images via sendspace account to my yahoomail.

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FSS File Sharing Issues
Aug 18, 2016 11:26PM PDT

I think an issue you'll face with a lot of the previous answers (wetransfer, dropbox, etc.) is very slow downloads or uploads because these free sources need to make sure that no single file (e.g. user activity) slows downs the servers too much for use by everyone else using the service. If this doesn't bother you then it might be a decent solution. You could also take a look at software such as Innorix large file transfer solutions, which should provide better security and speed.