yousendit.com or wetransfer.com are probably the best bet for fuss free file transfer…
2 gigs is *not *big!!! All the free apps top out at 2 gigs - are there any free ( which means no $$$ required, not a trial period free then pay), that’d let u send say, 10 gigs at once?
Skype, hosting your own FTP/HTTP server, scp on Macs and *NIX machines, etc.
Also, if it’s a single 10-gig file, the recipient has to have a relatively modern computer. Older ones can’t handle files bigger than 4GB or so.
this is very helpful - I Skype all the time, but didn’t realize u can send no-size-limit files. The recipient is not a Skyper, but I can talk her into signing up. The documentation ain’t clear, tho:
- does the recipient have to be actively logged on Skype in order for the sender to send? Not just have an account but her computer on and logged into Skype?
- if not, I assume once she logs on she’ll see there’s a file waiting for her. So, assuming she doesn’t log in regularly is there a way to generate a prompting email that some1 has sent her a Skype file?
You both have to be logged on and Skyping. It’s not a file hosting service, just a direct real-time transfer.
Once she has Skype installed and running, you could, well, just call her on Skype and say “Hey, let me send you this file…” and leave it running for the next 5 years or so. Alternatively, you can put it on a DVD or a $5 USB stick and mail it to her. It’ll probably be faster that way unless you have a fast upload speed (more than 512Kbps or so, which would still take at least 43 hours).
Yes, yes, yes it is. And yes it is free. The trial version does not expire. At least mine never has.
No, I’ve done it before with my own personal music and had it done in two minutes (creating a torrent link and sending said torrent link to friends). I didn’t bother password protecting it though.
Create a multi-part RAR. Each piece just under your email limit. I’d tell Win RAR to create a recovery record just in case its needed.
EMail each piece.
You’re friend uses Win RAR to open the archive and extract the file.
For the OP’s example I’d set the Win RAR size at 22MB and it would create a four part archive. Four Emails and its sent.
After MegaUpload got busted by the feds, it turns out there actually were quite a few people using it for it’s ostensible purpose of sending large files back and forth. Who knew?
ok, some math here - let’s assume a file of 9 gigs - 9,000 mb. Upload speed = 0.6mb/sec. So, 6,000 mb would take 10,000 seconds. Multiply by 1.5 to get to 9,000mb, that’d be 15,000 seconds, or 250 minutes - just over 4 hours. What am I missing? This sounds reasonable, 4 hours 10 minutes. 1,024 mb = 1 gig, so it would actually be 9,216 total mb, 2.4% higher, so maybe closer to 4 & 1/2 hours, assuming uninterrupted connection. Is this right? Or would my ISP throttle the upload speed once it took > 1 hour, so the 0.6mb/sec would fall way down?
Perhaps you neglected to read the licence you agreed to when you installed the program:
Your broadband speed is almost always measured in bits, not bytes. So, it will be 8 times longer than what you calculated.
e.g. 0.6 mega bits per second = 0.075 megabytes per second.
Yes, I’m one of the rare few who have not read every single EULA ever. :rolleyes: If this is what you need to be right, go for it.
There’s also Microsoft SkyDrive. Requires a Windows Live account, which is free. From here you can share files by putting them in the public folder.
I think Dropbox works in the same manner.
It’s not like the price is mentioned only there. It’s also on the official download page, in the manual, in the program itself, in published third-party reviews of the software, in the online stores of third-party distributors, and Og knows how many other places.
As noted, you want to multiply that time by 8 (10 really to account for overheads like parity) because bandwidth is measured in bits, not bytes. Plus there will be other users of the bandwidth, like your web browser. And heaven forfend that the transfer fail and lie unnoticed for hours and hours. And does Grandma know how to resume a transfer? For truly large file sets, the mail is still your best bet.
And yet mine continues to work in “trial mode”. And FWIW, one doesn’t need RAR to use torrent. It can compress a file and password protect it, which might make it easier/quicker. Keep beating the drum, **psychonaut **, you seem to have a rhythm going.
The Opera Browser supports torrents
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First you compress and either UUEncode or BinHex your file. Then slice it into chunks of a few MB each and send each one as the body of an email. On the other end, save your emails down to your desktop and drag them onto your dearchiving app, which should be able to concatenate, decode, and decompress the resulting mess.
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Boy, I agree there.
They really need to retool the email system to make it so that it’s automatic and grandma-friendly for any size file. Just off the top off my head, make it so when you drag a file into your email, the email software detects it’s over a certain limit, and starts the upload to a server somewhere, perhaps provided by your email provider. You send the email which just contains a link, and when the recipient opens it and clicks the link, it starts the download if it can or tells the user to wait until it is ready. Smarter systems can could start the download even before the upload is completely done. All can be transparent to the user.