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dawg day

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3. If you have a gmail account, you can load it to the drive-
Sun Sep 23, 2018, 04:16 PM
Sep 2018

You go to your gmail page, then in the upper right, there's a little icon of a block of boxes-- that's the programs associated with the gmail account, including Google Drive.

You can go there, click NEW (left side navigation bar) and FILE UPLOAD. You can browse for the video file and upload it.
While that's uploading, start an email to your friend. You'll be pasting a link into the body of the email-- just a link, not the file, so size won't be a problem.

The file will take a couple moments to upload. Then you can right-click on that file in Google Drive, and select "Get a shareable link". (You might be prompted to turn ON sharing for that link.) Copy the link, then go to the email, and paste the link.

Then send the email to the friend. Tell him/her to click on the link, and then download the video, or just watch it there on the Google Drive.

Hope that helps! It's a bit of a process, but shouldn't take more than a few minutes.

(If you don't have a gmail account, it just takes a minute to set it up: https://edu.gcfglobal.org/en/gmail/setting-up-a-gmail-account/print/

Help needed to email a video. [View all] CaliforniaPeggy Sep 2018 OP
Upload it to Google Drive and share it w/friend. CurtEastPoint Sep 2018 #1
Thanks, Curt! CaliforniaPeggy Sep 2018 #2
Don't make me come out there! CurtEastPoint Sep 2018 #4
I wish you were next door! CaliforniaPeggy Sep 2018 #5
Ditto! CurtEastPoint Sep 2018 #7
Gmail's free drive is a real benefit dawg day Sep 2018 #9
If you have a gmail account, you can load it to the drive- dawg day Sep 2018 #3
You can upload 2 Gb for free, without registering, on WeTransfer.com . . . Journeyman Sep 2018 #6
I'll check it out, and thank you. CaliforniaPeggy Sep 2018 #8
Here's another possible solution: LastLiberal in PalmSprings Sep 2018 #10
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