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Most email providers still limit the size of attachment, but there are several free file-transfer services that allow you to send files of up to 50MB, more if you pay
Q I captured a video with my phone and transferred it to my computer, because I want to email it to a friend. However, when I try to send it, I repeatedly get a message that says it’s ‘over the limit’ for sending.
I can’t really reduce the length of the video any further without spoiling it and I’ve tried sending it from two different email accounts. How can I get around this and share it with my friend?
Lorraine Thorpe
A For a variety of historic and technical reasons, limits on the size of email attachments are still widespread, with ceilings of 10MB or even just 5MB still common.
This is a piffling amount of data in an age when digital cameras can produce still picture files that are larger. Still, the situation is how it is, so, if you want to send larger files, you’ll need to look elsewhere.
Google’s free Gmail service, for example, allows people to send attachments of up to 25MB in size. However, this may still be insufficient to send a video file and, besides, there’s no guarantee that your recipient’s mail provider will allow the receipt of large email attachments (any more so than yours allows them to be sent).
Fortunately, countless dedicated file-transfer services have sprung up in response to this need to send large files. One of the most popular is Yousendit, which we covered in detail in the Workshops section of Computeractive issue 354.
The free version of Yousendit will allow you to upload a file of up to 50MB in size, and will automatically email a download link to your friend, and you can pay for a service that will let you upload multiple files of up to 2GB each.
Transfer Big Files is a similar service that accepts files of up to 100MB.
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Sending Large Video Files
I have a yearly paid MSN email subscription. When I first tried to send a large video attachment, I got the same message that my video file was too large. But they offered another way for me to send it through their "Skydrive" system by allowing me to upload the video & then send my recipients a link so they can view it. So far, I've had no complaints about it. Recently,however,I spoke to someone who told me that they use "Yousendit" but when they sent the link to certain addresses, people weren't able to open it. Of course my Skydrive set-up is probably part of my paid subscription, but I guess it won't hurt to check with your email provider to see if they offer something similar without paying. Good luck!
Posted by Raphael, 02 Dec 2011