{"id":14662,"date":"2018-03-18T16:48:21","date_gmt":"2018-03-18T20:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=14662"},"modified":"2018-03-18T16:48:21","modified_gmt":"2018-03-18T20:48:21","slug":"how-to-share-large-files-with-google-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/how-to-share-large-files-with-google-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Share Large Files With Google Drive"},"content":{"rendered":"

How to Share Large Files With Google Drive<\/h1>\n

You can only send files up to 25 MB by attachment using Gmail. And with Gmail the files types you are allowed to send as attachments are restricted. For instance, you can’t send .exe\u00a0(executable) files or even zipped files with an .exe\u00a0 file inside. But no problems. Since you use Gmail you already have a Google account – and if you have Google account you have Google Drive. And did you know that you can share very large files (up to 10 GB) using Google Drive?\u00a0 You can and we’re going to show you how.<\/p>\n

Here’s a quick tutorial on sharing files using Google Drive<\/h2>\n

First, if the file you want to share are not already on Google drive, you’ll need to upload it.<\/p>\n

1, Log into Gmail<\/strong> and open Google Drive. Click on icon that is a square with 9 square dots – it’s in the upper right of the page. See the screenshot below:<\/p>\n

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2. Click on Drive<\/strong>\u00a0(see above).<\/p>\n

3. When Google Drive opens<\/strong>, click on the blue button labeled “NEW” on the left side, Then click “File upload” and a window will open. From there you can navigate to the file on your hard drive that you want to upload go Google Drive.<\/p>\n

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4. Once your file is uploaded<\/strong>, right-click on it and choose “Share” from the menu.<\/p>\n

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5. Once you click “Share”<\/strong> you’ll see the following dialog. Type in the email address of the person you want to send the file to. You can add as many email addresses (one at a time) where it says “Add more people”.<\/p>\n

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6. Before you send your file<\/strong>, you can change the option below to your preference. If you want recipients only to view the file you can set permissions. You choices are “Can edit”. “Can comment”. and “Can View”.<\/p>\n

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7. When you’re all done<\/strong>, just click the blue “Send” button (above) and a link to your file will be sent to everyone whose email address you’ve included. Every Google account has 15 GB of space, minus what you’ve used.<\/p>\n

And, if you’re Internet savvy, you know that there are many sites, some free, that will help you share large files. But if you already use Gmail, you already have Google Drive – and you already have access to a great way to share large files up to 10 gigabytes.<\/p>\n

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How to Share Large Files With Google Drive You can only send files up to 25 MB by attachment using Gmail. And with Gmail the files types you are allowed to send as attachments are restricted. For instance, you can’t send .exe\u00a0(executable) files or even zipped files with an .exe\u00a0 file inside. But no problems. Since you use\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14407,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1751,2247],"tags":[2251,2248,31,1896,2250,2249],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14662"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14662"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14663,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14662\/revisions\/14663"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}