Is is still possible that in 2013 ...

[gilesgoat]

Is is still possible that in 2013 one cannot send via email a 92 mbytes file to a print shop and has to drive with an USB key there ?

It's *SO* like this :

[Deckard]

Yeah thats shit - Dropbox is what I use for anything above 25mb but why with super speed broadband cant you email files above 25mb ?

[gravy]

Another vote for Dropbox, it's completely awesome and you can shar stuff without the receiver having to install special software.

[RiK]

Would you want your email inbox clogged up with receiving a 90Mb file?

Stick it on your FTP and send them a link.

[Cloudane]

Yeah thats shit - Dropbox is what I use for anything above 25mb but why with super speed broadband cant you email files above 25mb ?

It's a ludicrous scenario on the surface and our users complain about it all the time (even when the limit is tighter at the receiving end than our end and we get the blame for it), but the reason is usually to do with the company at either end trying to run a mail server. The kind of storage used for email needs to be very fast (you have loads of people accessing loads of files at once) and fast storage doesn't come "large and cheap" like people often assume when they've just bought a 2TB drive for their desktop for 50 quid.

What often happens in an office is that a 90MB file (in the unlikely event both the sending and receiving servers accept it) gets received and then someone forwards it to a team of 50. Boom - that's 4.5GB gone in one email. It's just not designed for that kind of thing. Now imagine you do indeed have Superfast Broadband. Everyone would be sending huge files all the time because "hey, it's fast"

Better to use something designed for sending large files - Dropbox is good.

[gilesgoat]

Would you want your email inbox clogged up with receiving a 90Mb file?

Stick it on your FTP and send them a link.

Then with our upload speed it would take for them 3 days to download it

[Muttley]

Would you want your email inbox clogged up with receiving a 90Mb file?

Stick it on your FTP and send them a link.

Then with our upload speed it would take for them 3 days to download it

Your upload speed also limits the mail you want to send...

[gilesgoat]

OK .. the file is there, it should be ok, believe it or not even with an USB key in the place "it's not been that super easy".

"Ah this PC has some limitations of things I can do ... " ..



But in the end hopefully we should have the stuff ready on time.

[Istar]

Google Wave. RIP.

[defsdoor]

I wrote a web site for this stuff - you upload a file and email the link - but it's kinda superseded by the build in functionality in Thunderbird now that can use a variety of hosts offering the same sort of service. You add an attachment and it automatically uploads it instead etc...

[Little stoned kiwi]

[rowan]

It's kind of a good question. But if you ever tried to send that to my work I'd hate you forever because there is a 100MB [the decimal MB so it's 95 real MB] mailbox limit before it stops sending & receiving. I average over 100 messages a day after all my auto-delete rules, can you imagine how often I have to clean that crap out?
But we do have a FTP Although it's frankly amazing how many don't know about it - even amongst the IT professionals - and how many have no clue how to use it. Makes me sad.

That said, even sending 15MB over gmail I find rather unreliable - it often craps out during the upload and has no resume.
Post it on usenet with a bunch of par2s?

[Molloy]

Email isn't really designed for it alright. I'm not sure I'd love to be totally dependent on something like Dropbox though. It's handy to be able to search through mail and find email attachments that you may have lost or misfired.

I'd love Google mail quality search in outlook.. in another decade perhaps.

[gilesgoat]

The place has some sort of upload facility, but their space is quite limited and too small for that file, so I phoned them and after a bit of this & that turns out "ok I'll come down with the file I see you there".

Which been a good things as they wanted to check some stuff about it and needed to know other things, hopefully fingers crossed they will be able to do it before fri, but if they can't ( waiting a phone call ) it's been done all for nothing.

[RiK]

Giles, you've got a hosting account with 1&1 and an AWS account right? Plus your own personal website too. So there are at least thee options where you can upload a file before you have to worry about any other methods.

Really, where's the difficulty here?