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JL, 03 July 2007 YouSendIt
Think
of this as your online post-office when your packages are too large for
email. YouSendIt
It's come in real handy lately for sending large batches of photographs. I'm trying to talk some other cousins into signing up so they can send me their collections. It's the usual sign-up procedure with email address and password, and then you've got your own account to sign into whenever you want. The free version is limited to a monthly download of 1GB.  Note where it says
"Select a file"
- this does mean a file. In other words, if you have several
files, you'll have to fetch them one at a time. Remember,
this is
the free version. This is where zip folders can come in
handy.
I assume everyone knows what zip folders are and how to use them, because not would be like trying to use a computer without a mouse. Not surprisingly, cousin Sam didn't have a clue, but to my amazement she put her nose to the grindstone and mastered the procedure in a couple of days. It should have only taken 10 minutes, so if Sam can do it, anybody can do it, trust me. If you don't have a zip utility on your computer it's way past time to get one. WinZip will cost you eventually so you might as well go with 7-zip which is OpenSource and free. After installation it will show up forevermore in your context menu (that's the list you see when you right-click on a file). You can now either open a zip folder, or create one. If you want to make one, put all your stuff-to-send into a folder. The folder is optional. You could just as well use single files and add them one by one. A folder is just an easier way to gather all your files together in one place. Give it a name, right click on it and next to 7-zip, choose "Add to Archive." This box will come up.  There's only three
things to do
and two of them are optional. First, choose "zip" next to
Archive format
because it's the most common type. Second, put in a password
if
you want one, but remember what it is because your recipient will need
it,
and click OK. A progress bar will appear and when it's
finished,
you will have a zip folder to upload to YouSendIt.
YouSendIt If you ever want to open a zip folder, just right-click on it, and choose any of the first 3 options. I like "Extract Here" as it does exactly that, without further questions.  Zip folders have many
uses.
I like to store old correspondence and diaries in
them. Depending on
the
file-type a zip folder can compress files down to about two-thirds of
their original size.
So, if you didn't
already know about zip folders, now you do.
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