Tuesday, June 11, 2013

NOW, send up to 10 GB of files through attachment using Gmail

Gmail is one of the most popular email services on internet. With its continuous effort to make email services better and better for the users, it has won trust for millions of users across the Globe.

One of the feature that Gmail has introduced is it has remove the limitation of sending attachment files of up to 25 MB through emails. Now, you can send the files that have size up to 10 GB through Gmail. All you have to is to use the new Compose Mail feature.

When you use the new Compose mail feature you will find a small icon in the bottom of the window with the name "insert files using Drive" which you can use to send files which are larger than 25 MB and smaller than 10 GB. Basically what Google has done is it has integrated Gmail with Google Drive. So all you have to do is to upload your files to Google Drive. You can upload the files using Gmail Compose mail or by going to Google drive. The point is your file should exist in Cloud i.e. on Google Drive.

When you click on the Insert files using Drive button, it will open a Google Drive window. From this window you can either upload the file or select an existing file that you have previously uploaded into Google drive.

you click on Insert button, the files will be attached to your Gmail message that you are drafting.

That is all you have to do. Now when you click on Send button, Gmail check who are the recipients of this email message. If recipients are not gmail user, you can select option like Anyone with the link. If the recipients are gmail users you can select Recipients of this email.

That is all you have to do.

When the recipients receive your email and they will see the attachments link in the email message.

They can click on the email and can see the files. The good thing is once you have sent the email and latter you want to modify the files, you can go to Google drive and update your files. You do not need to send the email message again.

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