What file sharing service do you use?

4shared, its awesome and you get 10 gigs free, 2 gig per file upload.

I’ve used mediafire before. I don’t know if it can upload a file that big, though.

Looks like Google Docs’ size limit is 10GB.

Also, Dropbox has no file size limit. The 300MB limit is only through the website

split it up into multiple parts and upload those instead of the whole file

Megaupload/Megavideo

HJsplit will split the file into smaller parts.

@the100thmonkey Or just use winrar

A friend has suggested http://ge.tt/ as being a great file sharing site but I haven’t used it myself.

Try any of these or this.

@tom_g is on the right track:

Dropbox’s website explains: All files uploaded to your Dropbox must be smaller than the size of your Dropbox account’s storage quota. For example, if you have a free 2 GB account, you can upload one 2 GB file or many files that all add up to 2 GB.

—

@rooeytoo, perhaps you meant your file is larger than just “half a gig”? Or maybe you have less space than that in your Dropbox?

Thank you everyone for your answers and lurve too!!!

I am not sure what happened with dropbox but it told me I would have to upgrade to pro account so I didn’t really look any further, just accepted it.

I have tried 4share and that looks pretty good, will also check out the others, thank you all so much. It is good to have multiple choices!

@XOIIO – I considered that, but I don’t know if the OP has an account that lets them install software, so I didn’t recommend it. HJsplit doesn’t require installation.

I use my flash drive. I’ve been thinking of getting a Google Docs account though, just for simplicity.

Doesn’t winrar come with windows?

@XOIIO
No. It is a 3rd party program. You actually have to pay for it to get the full version.
I prefer 7zip over winrar, mostly because it is free, and because I found the 7z format to have higher compression.
Windows (XP and above) only supports zip natively.

WinRAR is pesterware – it bugs you to pay but you don’t have to to continue using the program. @ragingloli is right about7z; it’s got a better compression algorithm.

In terms of file sharing, Ubuntu One is pretty good – you get 5GB of strage, and can share an uploaded file with another user; they download straight from you. I did, however, have a few teething problems in the first few days like flaky bandwidth. It’s fine now, but it’s worth taking issues like that into account.