Non-hotmail alternative to Skydrive?

laurel7172

My boss asked me to send a large file urgently this week-about three times the maximum allowed by our email system.

Zipping/compressing hadn't reduced it by much, so she wanted it chopping into chunks to be delivered separately.

It wasn't confidential material, so instead I logged onto my personal Windows live account, and sent it to the recipient via SkyDrive. It worked really well, but as a general principle I'd really rather send work documents from my work email.

I suppose what I'd like is a sort of document Photobucket, so I can send a link in any email, to a specific document I've uploaded (a PowerPoint in this particular case). Any suggestions, please?

Thank you

Lum

Dropbox, YouSendIt, SpiderOak & Mega are a few of the ones out there.

gobeyond

I have been using Dropbox for some time now, and it has been relatively successful. The interface is a little too creative, resulting in the system looking unresponsive when dealing with folders with large files in them.

You could download Dropbox for Desktop and use it as a 'drag and drop' service, which coupled with shared folders means you could create a shared folder with your boss and pass files back and forth without having the send an email at all.

Dropbox has some good extra features, such as camera upload which will automatically upload new photos to your cloud storage. This means if you phone is lost, stolen, or dies then you still have your photos.