Google’s Gmail without a doubt is the best webmail
service out there as far as features are concerned. Everyone has at
least one Gmail account and use Gmail as primary email account. The team
behind Gmail has been consistently adding new features to the most
loved webmail service.
For a long time, Gmail allowed users to send attachments up to 25MB only but this changed with the launch of Google Drive service.
Gmail users can now send large files with the help of Google Drive. And
the best thing is that you can send file up to 10GB for free. Another
cool thing is that you don’t need to open up Google Drive client or
visit Drive’s webpage to send files.
Google
now offers an option to quickly upload files from your computer to the
Drive and then insert files from Drive into an email without leaving
your Gmail.
Follow the given below instructions to send large files via Gmail with the help of Google Drive.
NOTE: We assume that you have switched to the new Compose layout.
Step 1: Sign-in to your Gmail account and click the COMPOSE button located at the upper left to open email composing box.
Step 2:
Enter the email address to whom you want to send the large file, enter a
subject for your email, and then move the mouse cursor onto the plus
sign located at the lower bottom of the box to see Insert files using Google Drive icon (see picture). Click on the icon to see a page where you can insert files from your PC.
Step 3: Click Select files from your computer
button to browse to the large file’s location that you would like to
send, select the file and then click Open button. To insert multiple
files, you need to click Add more files option located on the lower right-corner. Finally click Upload button to start uploading the file to your Google Drive account.
Please
note that depending on your Internet connection and file size, it might
take minutes to hours to complete uploading the file to Google Drive.
Step 4:
Once the uploaded is done, you will see the file name with a link to
the Google Drive at the end of your email. You can now click Send button
to send the email.
