Data Transfer

[pehayes]

School me.  I need to share about 1,000 photographs with someone far away.  Snail mailing a thumb drive would take too long.  Is there any free service or protocol which would allow me to transfer a large number of files without impacting image quality?  Preferred process?

Patrick Hayes
Fremont CA

[fotoguzzi]

A site like wetransfer.com can do that it's a drop box that you share with the receiver. 2gig at a time so you might have to split into a few groups.

[rss29]

There are several cloud based storage solutions that will work for you. You might already have one available if you use paid services from Microsoft, Google, or Apple. If not, Dropbox, Google Drive, or Onedrive are good choices. I have paid accounts to all of these, but I believe they all offer free basic accounts or trial periods. Upload your full res files to a shared folder and send a link to your recipient. They can then download at their leisure.

[Wayne Orwig]

Put them on Onedrive, Drop box, or Google drive. Then make that path read only shareable. And give them the share name. If you don't use 'special' photos folders, it will be treated like any file and you won't lose quality. I've done this often.


 

[M0T0Geezer]

Anyone using Windows 10 & Microsoft Office 365 gets a terrabyte of free, sharable cloud storage that can be viewed & downloaded via web browser on any platform.  Very handy and read write security is very configurable.

[old head]

zip the pics first to make it smaller and transfer one folder instead of individual pics

I use dropbox, its easy and quick.

Old Head