Travel Technology - Semi-OT: Getting 600+ JPEG images onto another PC

Hi there - quick question.

I have around 600+ JPEGs containing images of some academic documents and I'd like to send them to my friend so he can download them to his PC. Each file is around 750KB, making the total size of all files around 450MB. My friend living in another part of the world, and we are having difficulties in doing this.

(I'd like to avoid using work email for this.)

We have tried emailing them with Yahoo! and googlemail, but both of these programmes requires you to select each file individually when attaching them. This can get very tedious when adding over 600 files.

Can anyone recommend either (a) a file-sharing website from which downloading files in bulk is easy, or (b) a photo-sharing website from which downloading files in bulk is easy?

Thanks very much for your help.

Why not just make a CD and mail it to him?

Why not just make a CD and mail it to him?
Yes, we had considered that, but because of where he is that might take upwards of a week. But that's probably what we'll end up doing in the end. We were hoping there would be something quicker.

Have you looked at something like Dropbox.com (http://www.getdropbox.com/)?

I was going to recommend Xdrive.com, but they're going out of business in 3 days.

Hi there - quick question.

I have around 600+ JPEGs containing images of some academic documents and I'd like to send them to my friend so he can download them to his PC. Each file is around 750KB, making the total size of all files around 450MB. My friend living in another part of the world, and we are having difficulties in doing this.This is easy:

1. ZIP your JPGs (split them across 2 ZIPs, since SendSpace can only handle files up to 300 MB).
2. Upload each of the 2 ZIP files to http://SendSpace.com/
3. E-Mail the download link to your friend

This is easy:

1. ZIP your JPGs

This is the key. Trying to do the files individually is going to be annoying no matter what. Compiling them into fewer files via ZIP or some comparable protocol will make it much easier to work with them.

Live sync from microsoft, formerly foldershare.

It's free for the most basic version, and all you need to do is to install it on both machines, log in, and tell it which directory to sync.

He points it to where the pictures are, you point it to where you want them to be. He goes to bed, you watch TV and all his files show up on your machine.

I currently have just over 2,700 files (about a gig) and I've never had a problem. Once they are there, you can disable the software or leave it active so he can keep adding more.

It's totally transparent on both ends, whenever the machines get back online, the files come over.

http://sync.live.com

This is why FT is fantastic.

Thanks to all of you, very much. ^

We'll try a suggestion or two and let you know how we get on!

Any other suggestions are also welcome.

Cheers to you all.

Any other suggestions are also welcome...

The free version of syncplicity.com (http://www.syncplicity.com/) would be another way to do this. It allows you to sync up to 2 GB of data between 2 different PCs, with a very easy interface.

Why not just use file transfer function on your SkyPE, AIM, MSN Messenger, etc?

Why not just use file transfer function on your SkyPE, AIM, MSN Messenger, etc?

Because that, too, would likely require the manual selection of all the content. It also would require both users to be online at the same time, at least to initiate the transfer.

The free version of syncplicity.com (http://www.syncplicity.com/) would be another way to do this. It allows you to sync up to 2 GB of data between 2 different PCs, with a very easy interface.

Thank you for this.

This also strikes me as exactly what I need to keep my pop3 client email and docs synced between home machine and netbook.

Just be careful, pop3 is a bit of a pain if you have it open on two machines at the same time. I eventually gave up and went to an exchange server solutiuon, too many times one machine would have the file open and the other one couldn't copy it over.

It's been a while since I've tried, so it's possible it's not an issue anymore, and the newer solutions address it.

If you do it, try to only have the files open in one place at a time.

This also strikes me as exactly what I need to keep my pop3 client email and docs synced between home machine and netbook.

I'll agree with cordelli that pop3 clients on 2 different machines is tricky. If your email provider supports it, IMAP is much better for this scenario. I use Thinderbird (http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/) on my PC and laptop and it is fine with IMAP.

Syncplicity does work very well indeed for documents and data, and provides an offsite backup as well.

Because that, too, would likely require the manual selection of all the content. It also would require both users to be online at the same time, at least to initiate the transfer.

Ctrl + A to select all files and send it to the recipient is that difficult? :p

Ctrl + A to select all files and send it to the recipient is that difficult? :p

It depends on if the means you are using to send allows for a multi-select like that or if it only accepts them one at a time. If you read the OP's initial post the biggest problem was selecting them all individually, an my experience with most of the chat/email tools is that they do not support multi-select when selecting files to attach.

A very basic way would be to upload them onto Picassa, Google's web album. I think you are alotted 1 or 2GB storage.