How to send lots of files or folders in an email
Posted 1 year, 5 months ago at 4:14 pm. 4 comments
When you want to send someone a lot of files in an email, the best way to do it is to compress it into one smaller file first, called an archive or a zip file. When the person receives the zip file they just need to double click it and, hey presto, the exact files that you put into it appear on their desktop! Read on to find out how to do it.
Not only does this save space, it can also stop the files getting messed up on the email journey they are about to embark upon. If you compress a folder, the folder and all the files appear when it is ‘unzipped’. This is built into Macintosh OSX. Here is how to do it.
1. Here is the folder we want to zip.
2. Right Click on the folder, and a menu will appear, select Compress (if you have Leopard) or Create Archive (if you have Tiger or older) .
3. It will make a zip file that you can then drag into apple mail or onto a thumbdrive to give to someone else. All you have to do is double click on the zip file it and it will ‘uncompress’ and you will have the original file or folder appear!
Yes, I’ve tried this, but it doesn’t really reduce the size of the folder. I had 23mb of photos, then I zipped it, and now have a 23mb zip file.
Any ideas on how to further compress files or folders, so I can actually email them out without gmail yelling at me?
If the files are already compressed, which jpg photo files are for example, as are mp3 files, then zip can’t really compress them any more! So this really just works for documents and applications. If you wan’t to make the photos smaller you’ll have to do it from iphoto. Click on share, and then email.
Hey,
Just wanted to say thanks. Your tip worked. You’re a life saver.
DH
Thank you. This helped me finally stop sending GIANT pictures to my friends. I never could figure out how to make the pictures smaller. Thank you so much.