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sooner_magic
02-04-2007, 07:52 PM
Does anyone know how to compress a file so you can email it? I've tried right click, compress and email, but its still is too big. Most emails can only go as high as 10MB. I tried to save it as a rar or zip file, but it will go from 58MB to 57MB. ANy ideas? THanks
4plugz
02-04-2007, 08:21 PM
I've never e-mailed a file that large, but whenever I had to move that much data, I'd just zip it, then use an ftp program.
You could probably also use net meeting or something similar, but you'd both have to be at your PC at the same time.
Lots of others here should be able to give you better suggestions.
Oh.... You might be able to transfer a zip over a P2P type network.
sooner_magic
02-04-2007, 08:31 PM
A Windows Media Player file
OhioYJ
02-04-2007, 09:22 PM
It depends on what type of file you are trying to compress, some files will compress more than others. Compress a text file or something, it will compress a bunch. But you are trying to compress already compressed video, it just won't compress enough for you to send it through email.
Why not upload it to putfile? Photobucket also now allows video, maybe upload it there? If nothing else, maybe sign up for a free web hosting service like Tripod, and put the file up there and send whoever the address.
Jeepescu
02-06-2007, 11:05 PM
Solution 1:
Go to www.sourceforge.net (http://www.sourceforge.net)
Download a tool named 7zip; it will allow you to break your file in chunks the size you want, and email them.
Solution 2:
Find a ftp server that you can connect to (usually ISP give some space), upload it (use a client like filezilla or other) then provide the link to your recipient so that he can download it from your ftp site.
If this sounds alien to you, then maybe solution 1 is better.
HTH
BN
WeekendWarrior
02-08-2007, 12:17 AM
Audio and video files such as those from Windows Media Player are already compressed. Zipping them or RARing them will not typically reduce the size of the file. At a high level...... If you think about zipping (compressing) a document, there is a lot of whitespace that can be removed. In an audio or video file, there is virtually no whitespace to compress.