How to send large mdb file by email

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Irshad Alam

I have a .mdb file, which is very large, After doing it
zip, by the help of Winzip, it becomes about 3.0 MB.

My account in on Hotmail and it allows only 2.0 MB maximum
to attach and send.

Could any of the kind person advise me, what to do now. As
I stuck in a very serious situation. I promised to send
for demonstration to overseas to a person and unable to do
it. The only and fastest is the email.

I can understand that this question may not be suitable to
this group, but I just selected as it is related to mdb.

Your valuable advise may make me success.
 
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John Vinson

I have a .mdb file, which is very large, After doing it
zip, by the help of Winzip, it becomes about 3.0 MB.

My account in on Hotmail and it allows only 2.0 MB maximum
to attach and send.

Could any of the kind person advise me, what to do now. As
I stuck in a very serious situation. I promised to send
for demonstration to overseas to a person and unable to do
it. The only and fastest is the email.

I can understand that this question may not be suitable to
this group, but I just selected as it is related to mdb.

Your valuable advise may make me success.
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Did you Compact the database before zipping it?

WinZIP has an option which zips a file onto multiple diskettes.
Perhaps you can Zip the file onto a diskette (three of them actually)
in your A drive (if you can find blank diskettes and if your A drive
is working - mine isn't!) and send the three files as separate
attachments. The recipient can then use WinZIP to recombine them.

I don't know if WinZIP lets you partition a file in this way without
actually having it on a diskette; perhaps their website would have
some suggestions.

The alternative is to find a FTP server to which you can upload the
file, and from which you can download it.

John W. Vinson[MVP]
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Carter Johnson

Try compacting before you zip the file. () Tools ... Database Utilities ...
Comapact and Repair Database) If that's still not enough open a free email
account on Yahoo (http://www.yahoo.com) where you'll get 100 MB of space.
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Yahoo Mail also let's you send attachments up to 10 MB in size!
 
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Douglas J. Steele

Arvin Meyer said:
Utilities

Correct, and a zipped Access file that is 10 MB is almost 40 MB unzipped.
You can also use disk spanning when you zip and get a much larger file
zipped and sent in pieces.
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But why would you want to e-mail a file that large? Post it on a website,
and e-mail a link to it!
 
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John Tkaczewski

There are other options to transfer large files...
1) Upload to an FTP server
2) Use one of the commercial websites that for a small fee will
provide you with the tools to transfer large files. Take a look at
http://www.files2u.com

John
 
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