“That’s too big for email!”
We’ve all heard it. Our email won’t send or deliver because our files are too big. We don’t want to jump through a bunch of hoops, worry about sharing permissions, or give them direct access to our files. We just want to send a lot of files. Easily.
Sending large volumes of data to another person has always been challenging. Setting up special VPNs, supporting FTP services, and physical storage devices have always been expensive, prone to reliability issues, and slow.
Dropbox has a creative answer
The Mozilla Foundation (builders of the wonderful Firefox browser) did beat Dropbox to launch with a similar implementation – Firefox Send. Also very slick. Dropbox calls their service Dropbox Transfer
- transfer up to 100 GB, and recipients don’t need a Dropbox account.
- know when your transfer is downloaded and how many times it’s been viewed.
- Dropbox Transfer sends a copy without giving people access to the original.
100 GB is a good amount of data … here are some examples:
- Around ten 1080p HD movies for the kids
- Twenty-five or so DVD movies
- Maybe 400,000 Word .docx files
The best part? It’s easy – for everyone
In a few minutes you can send up to 100 GB to anyone. Dropbox Transfer offers the convenience of email, without the 25 MB limit on attachments. With Transfer, you can send up to 100 GB of files—five times what some other services allow—in just a few clicks. You’ll have the option to drag and drop files to upload from your computer, or skip the wait by adding items stored in Dropbox. Once you’ve created your transfer, you’ll get a link that can be pasted anywhere. You can send the link to anyone, even if they don’t have a Dropbox account, or send an automatically generated email right from Transfer. Recipients will receive copies of the files, so your originals will remain untouched. You can view and manage transfers in one easy place.
