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How to email large files using any email program or service. Hi, everyone. Leo Notenboom. Here for askleo.com. If you're not getting my weekly email to newsletter, Confident Computing, you're missing out. Every week. I've got answers to problems and suggestions for security improvements and more. Go visit askleo.com/Newsletter to sign up today. So let's get right to the question. "Okay, I get that using email to send large files has lots of problems. The biggest being that my ISP says that my file is too big for email. So how am I supposed to do it? I have a large file that I need to send to someone. If I shouldn't use email, what can I do?" Email is certainly convenient. I mean, you attach a file and you click send and you're done. The file eventually winds its way through the Internet and lands on your recipients inbox, and they can then open the attachment, download it, whatever. Here's a problem. Email was never really designed for this. Attachments, I don't want to call them an afterthought, but certainly at the time, attachments were designed the sizes of files that were going to be transmitted across the Internet were never conceived of as being as large as they are routinely today attachments really were never intended to be the solution to this problem. The other problem is that there's no hard and fast definition of what it means to be large. Some email services will consider to be a ten megabyte email too large. Others will say 25. Others may have different limits. Others may have no limits at all. We really don't know. Even without limits, chances are an excessively large email is going to get stalled somewhere between your sending it and your email recipients receiving it. So what do you do instead? Well, as it turns out, especially with the ubiquity of, "the cloud" there are several different approaches that are all really super familiar, and you've probably already got one installed on your machine. As we speak, the best way to send a file on the Internet is not to send the file. Let's switch over to my Windows ten machine. You can see that I've got Windows File Explorer open on Onedrive. Now remember what Onedrive is, and this applies equally to Dropbox and Google Drive and a few other services as well. Onedrive is a cloud storage service. What that means is that when you put a file into your Onedrive, it is placed online in the cloud, as it's called. Microsoft servers are really all that that means. So it's already on the Internet. It's already been uploaded, so you don't need to upload it again yourself by attaching it to email. What you can do instead is send a link to the file that's already in the cloud. Here's what I mean. So let's take a look at this one. I've got this file fullpuppy.jpeg. Let's do that one. You...