La technologie évolue, et avec elle la qualité de nos échanges et des fichiers générés. Prenez par exemple les smartphones, qui atteignent aujourd'hui une qualité d'image impressionnante, tant en photo qu'en vidéo ! Malheureusement qui dit meilleure qualité dit généralement fichiers plus volumineux. Et je connais de nombreuses personnes qui conservent par exemple leurs vidéos sur leur smartphone, car à part le transfert par mail, elles ne connaissent pas d'autres solutions. Et ces vidéos sont trop lourdes pour être envoyées par mail. Comment envoyer des fichiers volumineux par mail ? Voici quelques solutions…

Transfer services

Sending large files is a problem for both individuals and companies.Working in management control a few years ago, I carried out Excel dashboards which could make a hundred mega bytes, which were impossible to send by email, even compressed.Ditto for database extractions of several million records.Fortunately, there are bulky documents transfer services for companies that allow this.Services that are also available to individuals, generally free of charge.

A well -known service is wetransfert: the principle is simple: a file is placed there, it is downloaded from the company's server, and an email containing a download link is sent to your correspondent.Simple and efficient.But society being American, with different legislation from ours, the question of data confidentiality is always arising, especially in the context of professional use.When you can use a French service, you might as well do it.And in this area TransferNow, despite its name, is a company all that is most French, created in 2013.The principle is the same: we file a file (up to 5GB in free version), and after download from this one, we get a link to be communicated to recipients, who can freely download the file made available.

The transfer is made via a HTTPS secure connection, the files are encrypted on disk with the 256-bit AES-type encryption algorithm, the link can be protected by a password for more security, and the files are automatically deleted at7 -day end (in free version).Lastly sufficient for personal use!Practical, the documents can be directly viewed online thanks to an overview.

But for companies, a paid version from € 8.33/month allows file storage for one year, sending files up to 50GB, and even personalization of the white marquee interface, thiswhich is immediately more pro for a company.A widget can even be integrated into the company's site to offer a perfectly integrated file sending solution.

The “cloud” offered by certain services

Some services offer online file accommodation, such as Microsoft 365: the subscription giving access to Excel tools, Word, etc..also gives access to a cloud storage space.When recording a file, you can do it directly on this space via the dialog box, which gives the choice between recording on your local computer, or on the OneDrive space:

It is easy then to send a link to the recipient so that it can access the file.

Android offers the same thing with Google Photo, allowing you to save your photos and videos in the cloud, a good way to make a backup or create an album to give access to friends and family for example.Apple and Amazon also offers this possibility.Be careful, however, to check the conditions, some services automatically reduce the quality of the photos.

NAS storage

This method, even if it is not very difficult, is still aimed at more experienced users.We had already talked about it in particular as part of the safeguard of our documents.It goes through the installation of a NAS at home, that is to say a kind of computer whose sole purpose is to store data (no screen need, keyboard or mouse).The big brands, such as Synology or Qnap, for example, offer applications allowing to synchronize your photos / video, or even your office documents, in the same way as Microsoft, Google, Apple, and others offer.

We can in the same way share links to the people we wish so that they can access the desired documents.The big advantage is that we remain completely the owner of its documents, which are stored with us.On the other hand, you must have a correct bandwidth when you want to access your documents remotely without having to wait for long minutes to download a bulky file.

These different solutions thus make it possible to share bulky documents that we wish, without encountering the problem of the size imposed by most mailboxes.

If you have other tips for sending large files by email, do not hesitate to share in the comments!