HOW TO SEND LARGE FILES THROUGH EMAIL – EXPLAINED

A lot of internet users send files via emails . However
there is one problem and that is that you can only
send files with limited sizes. Let’s take example of
Gmail. Gmail allows its users to send maximum data
attachments of 25 MB .
This is definitely not enough if you are sending your
birthday pictures or a video to your friends or family
members. So, what to do? No worries, Yes you
can send large files through email Easily
You can use websites like dropbox, where you can
upload files and share the link of those uploaded files
to your friends but unfortunately websites like dropbox
comes with some restrictions with first being not free,
advertisements and less security.
Google Drive by Google is the best option to upload
your files and send them to your family members,
friends. It acts as a Cloud drive. Most of us are having
a Gmail account, you can use the same Gmail account
if you are willing to use Google Drive and with that
Gmail account you will get 5GB of free space.
HOW TO SEND LARGE FILES THROUGH
EMAIL
Follow this step by step tutorial for sending large files
via email.
Step 1: First of all you need to visit Google Drive and
sign in with your Google account Credentials.
Step 2: Once you are logged in you can start uploading
your data. Click in the upload button which is present
right next to create.
While uploading any file you can view the status of the
upload by looking at the status window which is
present at the bottom right corner of your computer
screen. You can even place more than one file for
uploading at a time.
Step 3: Once the upload has been completed you can
easily share them with your friends, family members or
even office colleagues. Click on the Share link to set
the sharing settings of the file which you want to
share. You can decide if you want to make that file
private or public. Click on Who Can Access under
Change menu to change the file status.
Step 4: You can send the files directly by emailing
them from Google Drive. In the Sharing settings menu
of a particular file you will see options which will
include sending file via email and via social networking
websites like Twitter, Facebook.
Google Drive also comes with one great feature and
using this feature you can also limit the people to only
view the files and not comment or you can give them
permissions to comment or edit the files.
If you want to share files of your project with your
team, upload the files and grab the link and share
them with your entire team. You can even use Google
Drive on smartphones as it is available both for Apple
and Android operating systems.
There are other websites which are similar to Google
Drive but provide a little less features