#send file

For bigger file transfers, email is a no-go. So what are your options? E-mail is creaking under the demands of the internet, and nowhere is that more obvious than with sending files. Yes, you can send a couple of photos easily enough, but as soon as you move into audio or video, you’ll be struggling. Even Gmail has a hard cap of 50MB – not that much in the grand scheme of things.

So how do you send large files online? Well, there are broadly two ways to do it depending on whether you’re looking to send files to someone as a one-off, or regularly.

To break that down a bit further, if you don't want to fill your free cloud storage with large files you send – and then spend time deleting them – then you're better off using the tools for one-off files. On the other hand, if your important files are already in the cloud, or you want to collaborate with someone for an extended period of time, then you're much better off using the tools built into the likes of Dropbox, Microsoft OneDrive and Google Drive.