Posted on 02/11/2015 3:08:19 PM PST by Cowman
I have several large PDF files to email and whenever I try to attach them to a yahoo email I get sent to Dropbox -- I HATE Dropbox.
How do I send these files without Dropbox?
My dropbox isn’t big enough to hold an entire human being.
gmail takes huge files
I was hoping not to use gmail because I also hate Google. Less than the white hot hate with which I hate Dropbox bit hate nonetheless.
You are getting sent to Dropbox because the size of the attachments exceeds Yahoo’s limits. If you don’t like Dropbox (not sure why ... it is a REALLY good service), pick your own Cloud Storage Solution. Microsoft has OneDrive that is free to anyone with an O365 Account, Apple has one that I think is free if you own an Apple product. Basically, store the doc in the cloud, then share the directory with your friend. They simply get a link, and download at their leisure, and the email servers don’t get dropped to their knees.
Welcome to the future ... and if you don’t conform ... twas nice knowing ya ... companies are getting smarter about deploying infrastructure and taking on costs, and just cause they used to let you send massive emails doesn’t mean they ever will again, especially if you are using a free service.
Dropbox is great, but if you are scared of it, you can break the files into smaller PDFs or compress them into a lower resolution PDF and mail it that way.
You can’t have your hate and e-mail too :}
It sounds to me that the problem is Yahoo, not Dropbox. Your files are above their max email size so they are recommending a cloud file sharing service.
I have never paid a penny to Dropbox and mine is 72GB of which I am only using about 30. Now, that said ... how many GB of Data constitute an entire human being cause I may not have enough either.
Alternatively, you can get a free MediaFire account, upload your PDFs there, then simply send your recipient the download links.
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zip the files
Most e-mail services have size limits, although a few don’t. But even if your e-mail were not to have a size limit, the chances are ... that the receiving e-mail won’t take it, because of the size. So, it’s not only the sending e-mail that a problem, it’s the receiving one that’s the problem too.
And so, if either one (sending or receiving) has a problem, then you have to go outside of e-mail to do it.
The way you go outside of e-mail is that you load the file on some website, where you can provide a “link” to the receiver of your e-mail. That way, they go to the link and download it.
The website can be a service you get, which will then provide you with this ability, or you use your own website, which you might already have through your ISP (most of them give you web space).
The bottom line is, if your mail service won’t handle the size, you have to load it on a website to have the receiver pick it off there. And again, it’s just not “you” the sender who must accommodate the size, it’s the RECEIVER who must accommodate the size!
I hope that helps.
“How do I send these files without Dropbox?”
Get a storage site and then upload the files to that site. Give your recipient the user name and password to the site and they can download the files.
Best advice I’ve seen so far.
It all depends. Women are more complex resulting in much larger files.
Do you have Acrobat Distiller? You can drop your PDF’s thru Distiller and it will compress your PDF’s to their smallest acceptable file size. You have to be somewhat savvy to use Distiller, but well worth it for Email.
In addition to all the other advice, if you created the PDFs by scanning them, make sure you didn’t scan them with a color setting turned on. Scanning in color greatly increases the byte size of a PDF. Black and white scans use fewer bytes.
“You can’t have your hate and e-mail too :}”
I don’t care who you are, that’s funny right there.
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