E-Mailing A Folder

Mr_Vincent

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rmg1

As far as I know, you would need to create a zip file of some description (7-zip is free and handles most things).
You would then email the zip file as an attachment.

The recipient would also need 7-zip (or similar) to read it at the other end.

phoneguy

Email is not really designed for large file transfers. Lots of mail servers will just drop attachments over a certain size, so unless that folder is small, or zips down to a few mb, I'd look at using one of the online dropbox type services.

You may get lucky and it will pass through OK, but big attachments can cause all sorts of grief to the recipient and their server so keep an eye on the size before you hit 'send'.

rmg1

Never thought of that.
There's always services like YouSendIt as well (basically you upload the file to them, they send you a link to email to the recipient and the recipient downloads it again).

There will be other services that do the same, that's just the one I thought of first.

robmar0se

Back to the original question - you won't actuially email the folder, just its attachments. Of course you can do it via a number of emails, no single email should be larger than 5mb to avoid restrictions somewhere along the line. Zipping the files as previously suggested is recommended.

Of course you could burn to a cd/dvd and snail mail it.............