gmail and large media fiels

synchro

for some reason every time i try to email a large media file be it an mp3 or wmv watever, the oop! messagebox pops up!
y is this so i thought gmail should be able to tackle files like this!

bungeecork

Are you sending from GMail address to GMail address?

deckie27

gmail will handle files up to 7.5mbish any bigger will fail.

synchro

deckie27 wrote:

gmail will handle files up to 7.5mbish any bigger will fail.

so there is there any way of sending files bigger than this to myself using gmail

Tobias Greeshman

deckie27 wrote:

gmail will handle files up to 7.5mbish any bigger will fail.

Actually GMail will handle attachments up to 10mb Max attachment size

deckie27

silas wrote:

Actually GMail will handle attachments up to 10mb Max attachment size

Did you ever try sending a 10 mb attachment ?
I couldn't but found 7.5mb would go.

The best way to send bigger files is to use winzip or winrar.
You can create a compressed file in parts.
So if you had a 50mb file winzip would create 6 7.5mb files and a 5mb file
Just send the in single mails and then on the other end the can be joined up again.

Dec

Hobbes

synchro wrote:

so there is there any way of sending files bigger than this to myself using gmail

Programs like winzip will allow you zip something into chunks of your choosing. Could do it that way but would be a lot of emails.

seamus

It could also be caused by timeouts. If your upload speed is insufficient, the connection will time out before you can fully upload the file.

Aspiration

Can you send .exe files if you use winzip?

seamus

Kind of. Even if you put it into a .zip, gmail will scan the archive and refuse the send because it contains an executable file. Simply change the extension of the .zip file (to .xxx or something) and gmail won't scan it.

bungeecork

Or just use the free yousendit.com to "email" files up to 1Gb, using your current email address.

J2DaC

Thats what I was just about to say.

Have a look at www.rapidshare.de. Download rates at 120kb/s for me and fast uploads aswell. Does the job.

BopNiblets

Sendspace is better than rapidshare, no bloody limit per hour :mad:
(they have a bandwidth limit instead, once 100GBs worth of any one file is downloaded, it's deleted)

It's decently fast (100Kb/s) and can have files up to 1.2GBs.