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[bimbim]

Hi
I'm trying to send a 21.2 MB windows media video file as a an attachment to an outlook experess e mail but it won't send . presumably because it is too large, i've tried sending it as a zip file that doesn't work either . any ideas ?
pls

[Nemesis9]

For a file that large regular email, zipped or otherwise won't work. The only other methods (other than writing it to CD and posting it), are to recode it using other video compression codecs (Mpeg 4 / Divx) to make the file size smaller and easier to email, or post it to a BitTorrent client where it can be downloaded by the recipient.

[Space]

maybe you can slice it into multiple zip files... I don't know whether that functionality still exists...

[Nemesis9]

Forgot to add, if you try www.putfile.com you can upload video files up to 25mbs free of charge, than just email the details to the people who you want to see/download it. Hope this helps.

[camioneur]

<DIV>YouSendIt will allow you to send files up to IGb for free

[PatTheRat]

I would also recommend www.yousendit.com

However, if it is a file you want to send on to multiple people I think they have a download limit of 25.

[stevie21]

I've used putfile for this type of thing. If it's important that the other person can download it to their hard drive and keep it for their own use (rather than just stream it once on putfile) then upload it to putfile and tell the other person to put that url in here :
http://www.stevie21.com/celtic/getlink.asp
which will give a download link.

Failing that, WinRAR will compress a file and break it up into smaller parts, each, for example 5MB in size that can be emailed. The person at the other end needs to have WinRAR (or equivalent) installed to benefit from this.

[bimbim]

thanks .yousendit worked . what can the recipient expect to receive ,? 'cos she's not very computer literate