Sending large attachments via Email

[JayCeeDee]

Has anybody encountered problems sending large attachments via email at all?? Gmail often balks at anything over 10Mb.

I need to send a pdf and two jpg’s to British Gas Customer Services – a report and two photos of meter readings. I’m sending via gmail.

I’m waiting a reply to see which one they are having problems with, they have just asked me to……… ” please resend this in either, Word 2003, Adobe or Tif format. Alternatively, please paste to the body of the email.”

Well, the pdf is in Adobe format – they created the darn format!! The photos are JPG’s and all sorts of programmes open those, don’t they??

I always used to send things like this using Picasa’s email set-up, which worked well, but trying to do the same with Google Photos sends you to a Facebook Share style format, which I dislike.

TIA>

[PlaneMan]

I’d create a folder, call it something relevant and dump all the stuff in there. Put that folder into your google drive and then right click it, you’ll get the option to ‘get sharable link’. Paste that into an email.

[Drezha]

Gmail can send and recieve up to 50Mb files. However, your receiver has to accept large attachments and most people I deal with at work can only accept 20Mb (not sure if that is an Exchange default mind).

Can you print the JPG’s to PDF? Windows 10 has a PDF printer built in.

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[JayCeeDee]

Thanks Drezha, that might work – I’ll try that in future. I’ve just pasted the section of the report and the two photos into the body of a reply to them – waiting to see if that was received OK – not pretty, or elegant, but it seems to have worked. I was just looking for a neater solution than re-sizing or whatever.

 

The 20Mb limit is what I’ve seen previously, and always assumed it was a Gmail thing, not the recipient.

The photos I take with a phone these days are all fairly large in size, because I want them at best quality really.  With phones and cameras capable of high quality and large file sizes, I would have thought a better integration would exist. It seems to be something that’s slipping through the net ( pun intended ) needing a workaround/conversion to get the job done.

[JayCeeDee]

PlaneMan wrote:

I’d create a folder, call it something relevant and dump all the stuff in there. Put that folder into your google drive and then right click it, you’ll get the option to ‘get sharable link’. Paste that into an email.

Cheers, PM. I always get concerned that I’ll click on a setting, to do something entirely different, and open up all my photos to the outside world. ( Not the end of the world, but not ideal!! ) I’ve had people send me a photo on FB before, and I could scroll through all of their photos. Not a nailed down system at all, especially when the titles of some of the settings are vague and unclear as to the scope covered by it!!

[Drezha]

JayCeeDee wrote:

With phones and cameras capable of high quality and large file sizes, I would have thought a better integration would exist. It seems to be something that’s slipping through the net ( pun intended ) needing a workaround/conversion to get the job done.

I don’t know what the difference is with the iOS and Android compression algrothims, but the iPhone has always saved JPG images are a far smaller size than any Android phone I’ve used and for similar megapixel images. Talking like 150% larger (1.8Mb for an iPhone image, 5Mb for an Android one for whatever reason),.

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[Bob Williams]

I never have a problem with Outlook/Live Mail, and have sent some big files with large pic’s. Sometimes I reduce the pic sizes, for the reason Drezha quotes:

” However, your receiver has to accept large attachments and most people I deal with at work can only accept 20Mb ”

I think it’s a good point to think about who you are sending to. Sometimes the biggest companies have the most miserly acceptance sizes. My landlord has a really dumb Repairs Reporting website: asks for photos of a repair problem and will not accept anything over 20Mb. This is one of the largest Social landlords in the UK.

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[Ed P]

Probably just an image quality /level of compression versus speed trade-off Drezha. While the file format for jpgs is standard the compression algorithms can be quite different. You would need to take some stock photos for both Android and Apple and see what level of detail Apple has sacrificed to get a tighter compression. Even then you would probably have to significantly enlarge images to see differences.

[wasbit]

What you haven’t done is told us the size of each file.

Each file could be sent separately. Photos can be easily resized.

The report could be sent as a text file or even included in the body of the email.

Lots of possibilities when we have more information. 🙂

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[The Duke]

I alway do the folder and link method. If your scared of opening up all your photos/files. Open a new Gmail just for this use.

I don’t, I use my main account, however I’ll always say in their access will be revoked in 7 days. I usually leave the link open for 14 just incase. Then I’ll revoke their access, and move/delete whatever is to be sent.

 

You could always use tonedo to share files off your PC, which is a great app for simple quick sharing. I use to use it alot. Pre easy share with Google docs.

A side note push bullet is a great app for personal sharing.

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