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Thread ID: 73342	2006-10-16 05:00:00	Possibly a silly question, but I need to know for sure	Billy T (70)	Press F1

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491826	2006-10-16 09:43:00	Hey BT, JPGs are usually at the most basic compression they can be done at without physically altering their quality using graphic programs, it's because they are binary files, compression works better with text/ascii like files. So it could be bigger than the whole directory because of the information added to help understand decompression. When you've got it inside the .zip file, you can open it using WinZip Classic (it's my prefered view) and go into Actions and Make .exe which is self extracting using WinZip's Self Extractor Personal Edition, now default will extract into a temp directory if you leave it blank, else you alter it to extract to a location of your choice, it's best to be a location in C:\ if you do need to specify a location, you should turn overwriting off too. The name of the self-extracting should be similar to what you named the .zip file, and the extension is now .exe, so you go to the location you created it and copy the .exe file, you don't need the .zip file anymore. Cheers, KK	Kame (312)
491827	2006-10-16 09:44:00	Yes, well, I found my mistake! I didn't read it carefully enough, it was 289 MB! I swear that is bigger than the original folder (and sub-folders). Still can't make it self extracting either. :( Back to the drawing board Cheers Billy 8-{) :groan: Sounds like you should laugh at this point,so as not to cry.	Cicero (40)
491828	2006-10-16 12:01:00	Well, I manually shrank every file and got it down to 65MB, which is on its way as I write. But boy did Outlook have a fit when I tried to ram 289MB up its jacksy. It revved my poor old PIII550 way past its geriatric limit then spat the dummy big time and locked up solid. I had to reboot to get it going again, and even then it sulked and wouldn't go past a blank screen for 10 minutes. Fortunately I've seen it do that before so I know that if you pretend you don't care and just ignore the bad behaviour it will snap out of it and be its old robust self again in no time. On another note, I see I have just gone through 2000 posts for the third time. I can't believe I've found 6000 people to annoy, problems to solve, jokes to post or words to baffle (remember WFTWE? may it rest in peace. Memo to Bruce: I'm still waiting for the Candy T-Shirt. :rolleyes: Cheers Billy 8-{) :D	Billy T (70)
491829	2006-10-16 15:23:00	considering the size of the file the fact is that most email providers, excepting such as Gmail, would throw a fit at receiving that file and it'll be most likely bounced back at you lol......your best bet is to write it to cd and post it...	drcspy (146)
491830	2006-10-16 17:15:00	Billy. The idea if zipping the images is a good one, even if it doesn't compress them, because it'll at least package them. But as said, there's a good chance the email won't get to your recipient. The best way to do this, and I can help if required, is to upload them via FTP to a server and give the recipient the URL to download them from. Now if you'd like to do this I can give you temporary access to my server, along with step by step instructions on how to do it. Let me know via PM if interested.	Greg (193)
491831	2006-10-16 18:23:00	I can't believe anyone would try to send a 65MB email. As stated mail servers have a max size that they will allow for sending and receiving and I think Xtra is about 20MB and many are a lot less than this. Even if it did get through it may exceed the mailbox quota for the recipient. I would check your mail for a bounced message Billy T. email is not designed for this sort of thing and mail servers are currently struggling to cope with the volume of spam coming in and don't need 65 MB messages to add to the load.	Safari (3993)
491832	2006-10-16 19:21:00	Well, one can't always choose file sizes Safari, and email is the only option I have for sending. I couldn't shrink the files too much as not all content was clean and legibility is vital. I got it down to just under 22MB in the end (as a self extracting Zip file) but even that failed last night (3:30am actually). I don't think that is an extraordinary size and over the past few weeks I have received emails with multiple PDF attachments that are much bigger than that. There have been no warning or advisory messages and the only notification from Xtra has been that I am over my monthly 1GB limit (since you asked, it's the old "full speed" Jetstream plan). Roll on the 26th when I get 2GB for less money and higher upload speeds. The last send that I started at 3:30am failed due to termination by the server (Xtra message) but that was couched as an unexpected event and none of the other failures had any feedback. Any other ideas as to why if would fail without error messages, confirmation of any Xtra file size limits, or thoughts about overseas spam filtering or blocking of exe files would be appreciated. Today I will shrink it to two 12MB files and try again. Cheers Billy |-{(	Billy T (70)
491833	2006-10-16 19:26:00	Post # 15.	Greg (193)
491834	2006-10-16 20:53:00	Well, one can't always choose file sizes Safari, and email is the only option I have for sending. I couldn't shrink the files too much as not all content was clean and legibility is vital. I got it down to just under 22MB in the end (as a self extracting Zip file) but even that failed last night (3:30am actually). I don't think that is an extraordinary size and over the past few weeks I have received emails with multiple PDF attachments that are much bigger than that. There have been no warning or advisory messages and the only notification from Xtra has been that I am over my monthly 1GB limit (since you asked, it's the old "full speed" Jetstream plan). Roll on the 26th when I get 2GB for less money and higher upload speeds. The last send that I started at 3:30am failed due to termination by the server (Xtra message) but that was couched as an unexpected event and none of the other failures had any feedback. Any other ideas as to why if would fail without error messages, confirmation of any Xtra file size limits, or thoughts about overseas spam filtering or blocking of exe files would be appreciated. Today I will shrink it to two 12MB files and try again. Cheers Billy |-{( A 22 MB email actually is an extraordinary size and would be rejected by most mail servers. Even a 10 MB email is considered large.	Safari (3993)
491835	2006-10-16 21:29:00	Even a 10 MB email is considered large. That is good to know, I'll keep it in mind. My only previous failure was a couple of years back when a client's server refused to accept a 13MB report. It was an internal problem and their IT dept lifted their limit by a couple of MB and all was well. It was not Xtra that stopped it. Funny thing is I've been receiving emails for a week or so with multiple PDFs attached and they have all been pretty big files. The average individual PDF was 4MB but some were up to 8MB and I received just under 100MB in all. No bounce messages have been received, and I suspect the problem is at the US end. I'll break it into three parts, and surely under 8MB has to be acceptable? After all, it is going back to the same server that the guy used to send me 96MB. Cheers Billy :-{)	Billy T (70)
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