Help!

[Glen Roberts]

Today I received an e-mail from a curator at the natural history museum who is writing a paper on Leucism in Birds and would like to use one or two of my shots in his paper.
If I give him permission to use my shots (which I will ), he has asked for a couple of Hi-res Jpegs at 300dpi.
Now I've sorted three shots for him to choose from and saved them as Jpegs at 300dpi and they are about 2-3 meg each but when I try to attach them to an e-mail they are taking ages trying to attach then they stop and say some sort of error .

Are the Jpegs too big to send as attachments? Is there a way to make the Jpegs smaller without interfering with the quality?

When people have asked you for hi-res images to use how have you done it?

 

[Paul Lange]

First of all congratulations. I would have thought that sending a 3MB attachment is no problem. Have you tried sending him 3 separate emails? Some ISPs have a limit, the lowest is generally around 5MB.

If this does not fix it try downloading something like NCH Software's ZIP compression software. It is quite easy to use and compresses the files into some called a .zip file. All modern operating systems can uncompress these sutomatically if not the software to do so is freely available. The NCH software can compress and uncompress .ZIP files.

I hope this helps Glen.

 

[Glen Roberts]

I've tried zipping them Paul. The three pictures together are about 7.5 meg and the zipped file was just over six meg, so there isn't much difference in size there.
I did try and just attach only one of the pictures and that was the same, it took ages trying to attach then just said some sort of error[doh].

 

[Paul Lange]

I can only suggest copying them to a flash drive and sending from someone else's internet connection. Could be a problem with your ISP. Every now and again I have an email that just won't send because of a problem with the ISP.

 

[Dave Green]

Hi Glen

Zipping JPGs doesn't achieve much saving as JPG is already a compressed format. It does, however mean you can send just one file.

Try using this service - I use it all the time and with files often over 1Gb. The free one will work fine for you.

MailBigFile.com | A quick & easy way to send large files

 

[Rob MacKillop]

The problem could be at his end. Are you sending it to his work email? They might have an incoming limit - many institutions do.

 

[Hamish Gill]

I you sign up for Dropbox and download the software you can put the files in a folder and share it with him or send him a link...
we use Dropbox for a lot at work, it's widely used these days, and highly trusted!

 

[Dan Cattermole]

As Hamish said, very recommended!

 

[Paul Lange]

I forgot about Dropbox even though I use it at work regularly! Also if you both have Skype you can send large files via the file transfer service.

 

[Jim Kuo]

Dropbox +1

 

[Adam Lewis]

Here comes the amateur with the bodge job
Gmail can send 25mb
Hotmail 20mb
I think yahoo is approx 20? (I don't use so correct if I'm wrong)

Apart from already said about his end blocking incoming attachments, I'd suggest your connection is timing out, and thus stopping the process . I say this as it won't even attach to the email in the first place, let alone send it (to then be blocked).
Have you got some ridiculous UAC turned on?

 

[Glen Roberts]

I use Yahoo with my BT Broadband but I don't know what the limit is.
As for being block at the other end, it's not that because the error comes up at the attaching stage, if you know what I mean, before I even try to send.

My son has opened a "Mediafire" account and uploaded a Zip file so I'll send him a link to that and see if that works.

Thanks for all the suggestions.