Most email services limit the size of attachments you can send by email. For instance, you can only send attachments up to 25 MB using Gmail and 20 MB with Outlook.\u00a0 And with most email services the file types you are allowed to send as attachments are restricted. For instance, using Gmail, you can\u2019t send .exe (executable) files or even zipped files with an .exe file inside. But no problem! If you use Gmail, you already have a Google account \u2013 and if you have a Google account you have Google Drive. And you can share very large files (up to 10 GB) using Google Drive?\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n First, if the file you want to share is not already on Google drive, you\u2019ll need to upload it.<\/span><\/p>\n 1,\u00a0Log into Gmail<\/strong> and open Google Drive. Click on the icon that is a square with 9 square dots \u2013 it\u2019s in the upper right of the page. See the screenshot below:<\/span><\/p>\n 2.\u00a0Click on Drive<\/strong>\u00a0(see above).<\/span><\/p>\n 3.\u00a0When Google Drive opens<\/strong>, click on the blue button labeled \u201cNEW\u201d on the left side, then click \u201cFile upload\u201d 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.<\/span><\/p>\n 4.\u00a0Once your file is uploaded<\/strong>, right-click on it and choose \u201cShare\u201d from the menu.<\/span><\/p>\n 5.\u00a0Once you click \u201cShare\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0you\u2019ll see the following dialog (see screenshot below). 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) by clicking \u201cAdd more people\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n Or you can click “Get shareable link” (see above) and you’ll get a link to your file you can share with anyone you like<\/span><\/p>\n 6.\u00a0Before 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. Your choices are \u201cCan edit\u201d. \u201cCan comment\u201d. and \u201cCan View\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n 7.\u00a0When you\u2019re all done<\/strong>, just click the blue \u201cSend\u201d button (above) and a link to your file will be sent to everyone whose email address you\u2019ve included. Every Google account has 15 GB of space, minus what you\u2019ve used.<\/span><\/p>\n Of course, if you’ve been around the block a few times, you know that there are many sites, some free, that will let you share large files. But if you already use Gmail, you already have Google Drive \u2013 and you already have access to a terrific way to share large files up to ten gigabytes. So why not use it?<\/span><\/p>\n A Quick Guide to Sharing Large Files Using Google Drive Most email services limit the size of attachments you can send by email. For instance, you can only send attachments up to 25 MB using Gmail and 20 MB with Outlook.\u00a0 And with most email services the file types you are allowed to send as attachments\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13597,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1461,1751,2247,1764],"tags":[1648,238,363,1897,2628,2629],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15516"}],"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=15516"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23424,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15516\/revisions\/23424"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Here\u2019s a quick tutorial on sharing files using Google Drive<\/span><\/h2>\n
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