How do I send someone a large file?

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I use Pando, from Pando.com. I earn nothing from this recommendation but it makes sending large files easy, and make sending a Folder even easier!
It's simply using an email notification, with a link, to very easily manage peer-to-peer ftp. If the recipient isn't at home, she/he has 5 days to collect it from the Pando servers. I use it to receive packages of photos that I'll be posting on client websites.

try http://www.yousendit.com/
It is slow but gets the job done

I looked for a long time and tried many others. The best in my opinion is Dropbox (https://www.getdropbox.com/tour#1).
It is free with lots of storage and all you do is send a URL to the person you want to share with.
I use it often and have had no problems.
Fred

If the file you are sending is extremely large. Like 700 MB or over, perhaps a movie or something else. You may also use torrent. It is specifically made for large files. You just have to download a p2p client like bittorent from www.bittorent.com and press create torrent. you than chose the file you want and create a torrent file. you may send the torrent file in the attachment and it is usually only a key kilobytes. then your friend can open the torrent file and download it strait from you. but you also have to make sure that you do not cancel the seeding untill u are shure he has it all. hope this helped, Ben Who

Bit-torrent seems rather over the top for most people I'd say, but still otherwise a valid idea. (Though, wouldn't you also need to submit the .torrent file to a tracker as well? If using a public tracker, anyone will have access to your file and though using your computer as a private tracker is possible, it's not the easiest thing in the world to do).

Otherwise, MegaUpload.com will let you upload files of up to 1GB for free without a problem, more if you pay.

And I've used MediaFire for years and it's always worked very well for me. All documents are private by default so no-one can ever access your files without you sending them the link. (Note, it marks them as public in this state though). When you mark the files you upload to MediaFire as private only you can access them when you are signed in regardless of whether someone else has access to the link or not, so don't set a file to private and then send someone the link.

Yousendit and Upload.sc are both other possible options I've used before in the past.

Question for BenWho re Torrent. Will this method handle files with multiple images as well as test ; or is there no difference. ??

Re: FFacer

If I understnad you correctly, it should make no difference regardless of the method you use.

The only advantage of torrents is generally if you are sending the same thing to many people, or if you want to send a folder containing a collection of differing files (though this could alternatively just be zipped up and done though one of the other methods).

Go to www.yousendit.com. You can upload any file up to 100 MB in size. Just click on the link at the bottom right (forget about creating a business account). You just plug in the e-mail addresses you want it to go to and select the file from your computer and bingo, it's uploaded and stored for seven days. The e-mail addresses you've provided are sent an e-mail with a link to the stored file for their downloading. It's simple, easy and has never failed me.

Personally,I get a bit disappointed when any site asks for mine or my friends email address. I just think that they will sell it or spam it, however legitimate the site be. So yousendit.com will not be on my list. I think that uploading to a filesharing service & then sending the link is the best possible approach as suggested by Leo.

Ravi.

Wednesday, 29 October 2008 6:10:p.m.

A relative put me onto GSplit which splits larger files into smaller ones and the recipient can then restitch them together.

Have not used it for a year or two, but when I needed it it worked perfectly.

http://www.gdgsoft.com/gsplit/

Possibly a google search would throw more light on this and other "file splitters".

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