Getting Large Files From Clients is Still a Problem!
September 17th, 2007 in Product Reviews
by: Matthew Griffin
Clients very rarely understand the concept of file size. When they try to send a 20MB file by email and it doesn’t make it through, it baffles them. For about a year now I have pointed my clients to a service called yousendit.com. Without getting into too much detail, yousendit.com allows you to send large files by email. However, you run into a problem when there are a lot of large files that all need to be sent together. In these cases yousendit just doesn’t cut it.
Rather than set up and FTP account and try to explain how to use it, I would usually just tell my clients to snail-mail it or drop it off. That is, until recently. I discoverd a cool little FTP Java applet that has solved my problems. You embed it into a web page and it automatically connects to the FTP account you specify and it allows the user to drag and drop files onto the applet for easy upload. So all I did was create a web page in a directory with standard Cpanel directory protection on it. Then I added the applet to the page and sent my client to it. Problem solved and it really makes you look like the wizard of the web.
Here’s a link to the applet.
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Posted By: janet on 11/29/07
That's a great tip! I tried the applet and it works great. A much better way to transfer files than by email.Thanks