How do I share a 100 meg file?

[DocFrankenstein]

I've finished my proshow presentation. It's 100 megs.

How do I make it available to the ones willing enough to download it? :confused:

[Mark_Cohran]

If you have a server you can upload it there, then provide a link to it. If you compress the file (zip or sit), then the file will automatically start to download when the user actuates the link.

Mark

[DocFrankenstein]

I don't have a server though. That's the thing

[Mark_Cohran]

Your ISP doesn't provide you with server space? Most usually give you at least some space. Mine gives me 200MB of personal storage space.

Mark

[René Damkot]

Yousendit (http://www.yousendit.com/)

[Croasdail]

100 meg files are no big deal. Just upload it to an ftp site, or send it to your clients/buddies via ftp. We have sent files ftp and ftps way over 100 gb. 100 meg is nothing. If you are using your own isp, you may run into bandwidth charges really quick though. Your in school, don't you have access to the schools web services. Simply partition off an area on your HD and then mount it as an ftp file area. Should be easily done.

[milleker]

Back in the day when I worked in computer retail a customer came in asking what protocol they should use for transferring an ungodly large file over the internet. It was something like 10-20 megs - remember, this was a LONG time ago. Our reply? UPS.

Is sending out 8cm (185MB) CD's via USPS an option? You'd have a little cost there if you were willing to shell out a few bucks to the cause.

Do you anticipate a large amount of users downloading it? Personally I can't say I would unless I knew more about the project. Will you be making a 'teaser' so Joe Webuser can see what the presentation is about before committing to the large download?

Web space is cheap - check out Lunarpages.com - even if you got a few months of web access ($7 a month) you could put a few bucks into that, get 2500MB of web space and can let those brave souls download to their hearts content.

[PhotosGuy]

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[StewartR]

Another vote for Yousendit (http://www.yousendit.com/).

[shesgotthepic]

A client of mine called and asked what to do with a 300 meg file for a LARGE concert poster that needed to be sent out to various promoters. I told them to post the CD to me.

A few days later it arrived, I set up and FTP link for them that they could give to promoters. A friend with a print background popped in that day. Had a look at it and 5 minutes later the 300meg file was 11meg with no loss in quality or print size. We stuck that on the server. The file itself opened up to it's full 300meg when opened in photoshop.

Next thing I knew I get an e-mail from my client thanking me as they had been burning disks and shipping god knows how many via fedex all across the globe.

Whatever my buddy did, I dodn't know. The file is still being downloaded and used for printing posters promoting the tour. I'll see if I can get hold of him and tell me how he did it and I'll post it here.

[DocFrankenstein]

Back in the day when I worked in computer retail a customer came in asking what protocol they should use for transferring an ungodly large file over the internet. It was something like 10-20 megs - remember, this was a LONG time ago. Our reply? UPS.

Is sending out 8cm (185MB) CD's via USPS an option? You'd have a little cost there if you were willing to shell out a few bucks to the cause.

Do you anticipate a large amount of users downloading it? Personally I can't say I would unless I knew more about the project. Will you be making a 'teaser' so Joe Webuser can see what the presentation is about before committing to the large download?

Web space is cheap - check out Lunarpages.com - even if you got a few months of web access ($7 a month) you could put a few bucks into that, get 2500MB of web space and can let those brave souls download to their hearts content.
I should've given more info. Sorry.

This is a little personal slideshow with my photo experience in new york. I made it in proshow gold and didn't compress the jpegs beforehand. So after all the rearranging I find out that the program doesn't have the option of controlling compression, so I'm stuck with 95 megs unless I decide to re-make it from scratch, which would take a couple of hours.

So mailing out CDs is not really an option :D

I'll check the student space, but I have a suspicion it's 60 megs.

Thanks for the suggestions.

[tomd]

ProShow gold has an online,FREE, site for it's users to post slide shows for others to view. It is great. You can have an invite list, password, etc.
I do not know the max. size allowed, but I'm sure 4 minutes on their site and you will find it. Also, maybe, you need a recent version of their software.
In short, check into it. It may work great for your application. I tried it with a small sample slide show and I was impressed.

Let me know the results please!
Tom

[tomd]

Here is the link that should tell the story.
www.photodex.com/sharing/

Their servers are crashed right now, so I can't look it up.
tom

[DocFrankenstein]

It does look like their servers are down. I'll try them out.

[wannasmaxx]

Hostican is a great company. The owner is a close friend of mine and I have seen the operation... It's a sweet set-up.

[Brodog2525]

another vote for YouSendit.com

[Kristy]

gigasize.com Same thing as usendit... or try the ProShow site again...