Sending Large E-mail attachments

gianv · 21-09-2007, 20:46

Can anyone help. I compiled a report on microsoft word. Ended up 100mb in size. Should I be able to send this as attachment via e-mail.?

I have tried and left it sending overnight with no joy. I have 2meg broadband, can anyone enlighten me?

21-09-2007, 20:53

Errrr - in a word NO!

Do you have lots of photos in there?

Try zipping it up using WinZip or other such program.

gianv · 21-09-2007, 20:58

Thanks I will try that, may take me a while to work out how.

Matth · 21-09-2007, 21:07

If all else fails, stick it on somewhere like "yousendit" http://www.yousendit.com/ - or upload it to your webspace as a passworded Zip, and send the location & password by email.

http://www.securezip.com/ Securezip is STILL FREE, from Pkware, makers of PKZip

21-09-2007, 21:40

Quote:

Originally Posted by gianv

Can anyone help. I compiled a report on microsoft word. Ended up 100mb in size. Should I be able to send this as attachment via e-mail.?

I have tried and left it sending overnight with no joy. I have 2meg broadband, can anyone enlighten me?

If I remember correctly the max size attachment you can send is about 10MB, but because sent mail is a larger size than the original, due to the overheads, in practice you can only send attachments about 7.5MB in size.

Even though Word files are usually very compressible, getting 100MB down to 7.5MB is a tall order - not sure what the options are on the securezip freebie that Matth linked to, but you may need to look at the option some 'zip' programs have to divide the file into several smaller archives, which can be sent separately, then recombined.

superbiatch · 21-09-2007, 21:54

Going on what others have said, is there any reason it can't be put onto disk and sent via snail mail? (or am i just rembering the old days there

)

bw41101 · 21-09-2007, 21:59

If you use Winzip or Winrar, you can (in fact) break up a very large file into smaller segments to be sent separately in smaller chunks, whereupon the receiver can combine same at their end.

These features were incorporated into these programmes to deal with just such scenarios. Not the best solution, but it's better than nowt.

Cheers and Si thee

gianv · 21-09-2007, 22:02

I have just finished writing to cd , will post tomorrow. Not going to sweat about it anymore.
Why didn't I think of that?

21-09-2007, 22:32

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Originally Posted by superbiatch

Going on what others have said, is there any reason it can't be put onto disk and sent via snail mail? (or am i just rembering the old days there

)

In the 'old days' there were 5Ãƒâ€šÃ‚Â¼" floppy disks that only stored 256KB per side, IIRC, the 'high density' 1.44MB 3Ãƒâ€šÃ‚Â½" was quite a breakthrough, at the time, when hard disks were 'big' if they were 20MB....

I used to have an old 10MB 5Ãƒâ€šÃ‚Â¼" hard disk that was the size of a brick, weighed a proverbial tonne & was, in the end, used as a door stop

Hom3r · 21-09-2007, 22:37

I have a piece of sofware that I've got that can split any size file into any size chunks you want, will look now

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got it and its free

http://www.freebyte.com/hjsplit/