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# Guides

13 posts on guides.

- [How to send large files without email getting in the way](https://betterfiletransfer.com/blog/how-to-send-large-files): Email gives up at around 25 MB, and every workaround costs you something different. Here are the five real ways to get a big file to another person, what each one asks of you and of them, and how to choose.
- [How to send large files for free, and where the free tiers stop](https://betterfiletransfer.com/blog/how-to-send-large-files-for-free): Every service has a free tier and they are not the same shape. What free actually buys you, the things worth checking besides the size limit, and how to get a big file across today without paying.
- [How to send a whole folder, with the structure intact](https://betterfiletransfer.com/blog/how-to-send-a-folder): Email cannot attach a folder and most upload widgets flatten one into a pile. Structure is information, so here are the two honest ways to keep it, and the details that trip people up.
- [How long should a download link last?](https://betterfiletransfer.com/blog/how-long-should-a-download-link-last): Expiry is the most under-used control in file sharing and the one that does the most work: it is the only protection that keeps going after you have lost track of where a link ended up.
- [Sending large files from a phone, without losing quality](https://betterfiletransfer.com/blog/send-large-files-from-phone): Most large files start on a phone, and the convenient way to send them quietly shrinks everything. What to use on iPhone and Android, and the three settings that keep a long upload alive.
- [Email attachment size limits, and why your file is bigger than you think](https://betterfiletransfer.com/blog/email-attachment-size-limits): The limits are lower than the numbers suggest, because attachments are encoded as text and grow by a third on the way out. What each provider allows, and why the same file reaches one person and bounces off another.
- [How long will this upload take?](https://betterfiletransfer.com/blog/how-long-does-it-take-to-upload): It is arithmetic, and the mistake almost everyone makes is mixing up megabits and megabytes. The formula, a table to skip it, and why the bar looks frozen when nothing is wrong.
- [How to send large video files to clients without wrecking them](https://betterfiletransfer.com/blog/how-to-send-large-video-files): A minute of 4K can run to several gigabytes, and the fix is usually not compression. How to decide between a review copy and the untouched original, and how to move the original when that is what is needed.
- [Sharing files with clients: the delivery is part of the work](https://betterfiletransfer.com/blog/sharing-files-with-clients): A client's last impression of a project is often the moment they try to open what you sent. What they should never have to do, how to structure a delivery, and the three-line message that prevents most follow-ups.
- [Moving files between your own devices](https://betterfiletransfer.com/blog/transfer-files-between-computers): Emailing yourself has become a genuine workflow for millions of people. What to use instead, ordered by the situation you are actually in — same room, different places, or a machine you do not control.
- [How to share photos without losing quality](https://betterfiletransfer.com/blog/share-photos-without-losing-quality): Photos arrive softer and greyer than they left because almost every convenient channel re-encodes them on the way through. Where the quality goes, and how to hand over the file you actually started with.
- [When zipping actually helps, and when it does nothing](https://betterfiletransfer.com/blog/when-zipping-helps): Compressing is the reflex when a file is too big, and about half the time it saves nothing at all. One property of the file decides it, and you can predict the answer before you try.
- [Sending files without an account: what you get and what you give up](https://betterfiletransfer.com/blog/send-files-without-an-account): Handing one file to one person should not require signing up for anything. Anonymous transfers are still encrypted end to end — but there is one thing you lose that is worth understanding before you rely on it.

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