I should know this: Transferring audio files on the web Help

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ggrantly

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Like I said, I should know this, but it has never come up since the CD-DVD days.

I need to create a drop box or other convenient file transfer for about 100mb. It could broken up to smaller packets if needed. Mac Platform. What do you use?

TIA
Grant
 
I use a number of cloud storage/sharing sights. pCloud has no max single file size as do Dropbox and many others. I recall you can get 15GB for free and much more for a fee. The desktop app is fast up/down load and works good. Some websites like OneDrive has a built in web player, if that's important.
MegaSync is a another option.. a whopping 50Gb for free. The desktop app is fast and easy. There are a few minor bandwidth restrictions though. Many support WebDAV transfer, easy to navigate, but it's very s l o w my experience. I don't think Mega has player.
A 100MB file is small vy today's standards, so there should be no problem for most cloud based sites .. execpt Dropbox. AFAIK, none offer FTP support for free or at all..
 
I might be misreading Rick's post above... But Dropbox no longer has a file-size limit; can't recall when that changed. Note, though that's for files uploaded via their desktop and mobile apps (ie- the desktop dropbox folder). 20GB limit for stuff uploaded via web browser:
https://www.dropbox.com/en/help/5

The free Dropbox account has a 2GB limit (that you can increase a few ways)
https://www.dropbox.com/en/help/73

Like Rick, I use several different services. But Dropbox is fairly ubiquitous amongst my colleagues and clients...so I don't need to do much tech support for them (or they for me).
 
And I will be the decenter... I kind of hate Drop box for this kind of thing. Two reasons. First you have to jump through a few hoops to not have it link to your personal drop box. For your size it doesn't really matter but I get video folks sending me drop box links and if I am not careful and just follow the link it will want to "link" my drop box with theirs and suddenly I'm downloading gigs of video that I don't want. The other catch is that it is interactive. So I deleted all the crap that came down on my computer and ooops it deleted it from the drop box.

Now it doesn't have to work that way you can go and actually download a file and not share the account but it is not, for me anyway, straight forward.

I have a system on my website where people can upload files and download files. I use that for people I know, who I know are at least a tad savvy. I had way too many clients not be able to figure out that you click on the DOWNLOAD button to download the file so I stopped using that for clients. For short things I also have a nice app called FileChute that will upload a file to one of my directories and give me a link I can send in an email. But my go to all the time service is Hightail (formerly You-Send-It). The two reasons I use it even though it costs me ($50 a year) is that the upload app is very optimized and goes many times faster than most uploads (and also much faster on downloads when people send me stuff), and I can look on the app and see if the file has been downloaded, by whom and when. This last has been VERY useful.
 
I use wetransfer.com

Its free option gives you upto 2gb at a time. For higher files, there is a paid option.
 
WeTransfer is the best. Provides a download confirmation as well.

Sometimes, however, I have to tell non-savvy people that it's free to download what I've sent and to skip the paid ads/don't sign up for anything.
 
doubledark said:
Files uploaded on dropbox.com must be 20 GB or smaller.
https://www.dropbox.com/en/help/5
Click to expand...

That's only if you're using the web browser interface. If you're using the desktop app, and here I quote from the page you link to:

"Files uploaded via the desktop app or mobile apps have no file size limit."

Ya, that's not perfectly clear writing by Dropbox. But that's the situation I experience.

So Grant, I guess we all provided way more options than you need. :-)

Jim "just mail them a thumb drive :2vrolijk_08:" Feeley
 
Jim "just mail them a thumb drive " Feeley

That's what I did a few weeks ago with a 120Gb file to 5 people. I did get them to pay for the for the drives....
 
If you are sharing a file drop box with someone, make sure to just send them the link to the file. Don't share the folder. I shared a folder with a client once, and they started loading it up with their own stuff, and that sync'ed with my drive, and all of a sudden my computer hard drive was full of their stuff. I had to call them to and tell them to delete it from that folder. If I had just done it without saying anything they would have lost it all.
 
In DropBox, I don't think a 'non-owner' of a file in a shared folder can delete the file from the server (at least not permanently). It can be deleted on the non-owner's local computer though, or by changing the 'selective sync' setting.
 
Dropbox is great for other things, though. I know sound designers that have created entire workflows using it. It allows people to work on the same sessions and everyone can be all over the world. It works great for that...sharing work documents that people can easily access and work on. For basic delivery, I just do the shared link and it's done. Super easy. With a shared link the person you are sharing with doesn't have to have dropbox.
 
Drop Box works well IF everyone is on board. Which is why I don't use it for clients.

I think it really depends on a few things. If free is the priority then you go with what you can get. Things like YouSendIt and even setting up a folder on your web space and using something like FileChute lets you send a link that the client clicks on and they get THE file you sent. They don't get access to anything else and cant upload stuff or download other stuff, just the file you link to.

Everything else adds complication. I personally got tired of doing support for people who max out at clicking on a link.
 
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