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Best way to send 20 odd photos to my brother by email & stop the email I put the 20 odd emails into from going & stuffing up his computer

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KatyMac · 03/07/2010 17:57

Please?

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thisisyesterday · 03/07/2010 17:58

do you have to do it by e-mail? could you not put them on snapfish or something and then "share" with him?

KatyMac · 03/07/2010 18:00

I don't know - could I?

Have taken Outlook offline while I work out how to delete part sent email

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thisisyesterday · 03/07/2010 18:03

yes, you could!

i use snapfish and it's fairly easy to figure out. you just upload all the pictures and then you can click on "share" and they'll send a link to whoever you want so that they can look at/download/order whatever they want

tethersend · 03/07/2010 18:04

Use Yousendit- just make sure you use the 'free trial' and don't sign up for the one that you pay for

KatyMac · 03/07/2010 18:06

Great going back to this broken email

How do I stop/delete it?

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KatyMac · 03/07/2010 18:12

Phew I managed to delete it

Thanks

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NetworkGuy · 04/07/2010 21:31

Sometimes worth having a free Google Mail account (7 GB space allowed, and since user views items via web browser, it's up to them as to whether {or if} they wish to download any particular items). I have a friend in the USA who often sends clips off American web sites, sometimes a few MB at a time, and with them going into my GMail account I can view them without needing to download them onto my mobile phone).

YouSendIt (as mentioned above) is a good option if you have files of say 15 MB to 50 MB - some mail accounts don't allow items above 10 MB to be sent.

GMail has a maximum limit of 25 MB for incoming mail items.

If you ever try to send someone a binary (.exe or .com) then many mail services will block the sending (in case it is someone sending a virus).

You can make a .ZIP file and send that with the binary file inside.

I would suggest sending a note beforehand, saying that you are sending them a binary, and even include your phone number or similar (so the recipient knows it is you and not some virus sending the message) and to allow them to query the reason for sending a binary.

It's not especially relevant for this question of sending some photos, but there might be some other time when sending a binary is important (eg to help someone with same type of mobile phone, or camera, or whatever).

NetworkGuy · 04/07/2010 21:36

"I can view them without needing to download them"

View they are in my inbox, not view the item sent as an attachment, IYSWIM.

BrigitteBardot · 04/07/2010 21:47

Picasa

BrigitteBardot · 04/07/2010 21:48

Sorry, I didn't read the OP properly.

BadgersPaws · 06/07/2010 14:46

"If you ever try to send someone a binary (.exe or .com) then many mail services will block the sending (in case it is someone sending a virus).

You can make a .ZIP file and send that with the binary file inside."

It's not so much sending "binary" files that is problematic and sometimes blocked but sending "executable" files, that is something that you can actually "run" rather than load into something else. All computer files are binary of one form or another, binary isn't a problem.

Depending on how paranoid the various email systems involved in sending and receiving an email are you might well find that ZIP files are blocked as well.

If you get some kind of warning saying that files of that type are blocked what often works is just to rename the file.

For example I can't send .EXE files through my work email, which is often a huge pain. If I bundle them up into a .ZIP file the email software opens the ZIP up, sees the .EXE within and then still moans.

So I simply rename the .ZIP file to be a .TXT file and suddenly everything works.

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