Outlook.com SkyDrive integration: Send files upto 300MB as attachments easily

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One of the main concerns users have while using any email service provider is that – Will it let me send large files as attachments? Different email providers offer different attachment limits. Gmail allows files of up to 25MB as attachments, Hotmail and Yahoo allow 10MB. To send larger files, users have to upload files to some file-sharing website and then share the URL with the receiver.

The newly launched Outlook.com offers a seamless experience when attaching files. While you will continue to be able to send attachments of size up to 10MB by attaching them to the mail itself, for files exceeding 10MB to 300MB, it now offers a smooth way of sending them – using SkyDrive! You can now use SkyDrive to share single files up to 300 MB – or hundreds of smaller ones – in one email!

Let us say you are composing a mail in Outlook.com and go on to attach a file. If the file size is less than 10MB, it will be attached.

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If not you will gently prodded to Send files using SkyDrive. Clicking in this option, will let you select the large file from your desktop and upload it to SkyDrive.

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Once the file is attached, Outlook will add a line, ” … has a file to share with you on SkyDive. To view it, click on the link below”.

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The receiver, when he clicks on the link will be taken to SkyDrive, from where he will be able to download the large attachment.

The beauty of this feature is that you don’t have to leave the mail you are composing and it is so convenient to use that you do not even realize that you are using any other service.

Large attachments may take a long time to upload – and it all depends on your Internet speed.

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Anand aka HappyAndyK is an end-user Windows enthusiast, a Microsoft MVP in Windows Desktop Experience since 2007, and the Admin of TheWindowsClub.com, TheGeeksClub.com & WinVistaClub.com. Creating a System Restore Point before trying out a new software or a tweak is always recommended.

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  • No

    Good work – nice post.

  • Dominican

    Is that option available for all users?
    I can’t see it, just say that the file will be not uploaded,but i don’t see any option to attach files from skydrive.

  • Harvi Arora

    I Live In India & I am not getting the skydrive option while attaching big files..it just says file is too big for the email..no option to use Skydrive…

  • http://www.thewindowsclub.com Anand Khanse

    I too am from India. I could get the option – The screen shots you see are mine.

  • Dhayalvarma

    if the sender has outlook and the receiver doesn’t has outlook account, but the sender shared the files in sky-drive , how can we download the files from sky-drive , even though it takes to the link sky-drive , but receiver has no account to sing in . what the solution to download the file without outlook account?