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How do I zip a file & send it via email?

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by waverly.nichols

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I have a rather large excel spreadsheet and need to forward it on to another person after entering data. When I try to send it as an attachment, I get an error message saying it's too large. What do I do?
Thanks! :>)

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by pierrejamme

It also possible that your e-mail account or the one you are sending it to is very restricted in the size of attachments. Such as less than 1MB. You can also find a file spitter at on of the zdnet sites that will allow you to make several opieces and a bat file to put it back together.
goodluck,

by timwalsh

Even if you zip the file you may still run into a problem. Many large volume ISPs (Hotmail, AOL, MSN) set rather small limitations on the size of attachments they will allow. Since you got a message back saying the attachment was too big, you also hopefully got an indication of what the size limitation was. As long as your zipped file was under this size limitation, you should be okay. If the zipped file is still too large, you may need to find another solution.

by kees.valkenswaard

What I have done a few times as emergency measure was to ZIP the file to old-fashioned DD diskettes. [720K] Copy back to disk and attach these to several e-mail messages. At the other side the attachments have to be copied back to diskettes and unzipped. It is ugly and not very sophisticated. However, it worked.
Good luck

by chongtongseng

If your zip filewas over the attachments limitation (Even if you use large volume ISPs (Hotmail, AOL, MSN)),you may need to use splitfiles to cut the zip files to small pieces and send it seperately. The another person can received it and merge it back to zip files, then unzip to get the original format.

by sue t

Personally I don't like to use Outlook but if you have access to it you can have it automatically breakdown a file, but be aware that it will break it down into as many emails as it needs to cover the size of the attachment.

click the Outlook Express?s Tools menu and then click the Accounts option.

Click the Mail tab (assuming you?re sending email and then click Properties.

Click the Advanced tab, and select the check box that says Break apart messages larger than x KB. If you know the maximum size your recipient?s mail server can handle, enter that value. Otherwise, accept the default of 60.

What your recipient will see is a series of small files entering their mailbox. The good news is that their mail program will put Humpty Dumpty together again when all the little pieces have been received.

Hint: Before you do this, it might be a good idea to let the recipient know what?s about to descend on them, so they won?t panic.

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