How to share files over the internet?

[Palleraa]

I use OSX Lion on my Mac Mini.

Once a week i record a radioshow which ends up as a ~300MB MP3 file in a folder on my mac. My friend, who lives on the other side of the planet wants to get to this file. How do I manage that? I would prefer not to have any security other than you need the correct IP-adress (or similar). It needs to be using a standard protocol (http, ftp, ?). Any good ideas?

Some sort of online sharing service would also be fine. But it needs several giga-bytes and I dont wanna pay

 

[rowley]

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Filezilla server is good.
Ssh and scp works too.
I personally used abyss server with passowrded login.

Investigate those.

 

[miknos]

Try MediaFire. You have to split files into 200mb parts.

Don't have BS waiting time for non-paying.

 

[r.j.s]

What about Dropbox? You get 2GB free, and if the files are 300MB, your friend can just delete them once he copies it to his computer.

 

[iAmYou]

There is an app on the mac app store called Worml it is awesome for just this kind of task.
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/worml/id463103644?mt=12

 

[GGJstudios]

What about Dropbox? You get 2GB free, and if the files are 300MB, your friend can just delete them once he copies it to his computer.

I agree, Dropbox is very useful for sharing/transferring/syncing files between computers.

 

[mrmessenger]

How do you send a file to someone others dropbox?

 

[GGJstudios]

How do you send a file to someone others dropbox?

They can share their entire Dropbox folder or just a sub-folder with you, or you can put the file in a sub-folder of your Dropbox and share it with them. When you share with others, Dropbox sends them an email message with a link to the folder where the file is located. The Dropbox site has documentation on how do use it effectively.

 

[robgendreau]

Dropbox is great.

And if that isn't enough, there's also SpiderOak (disclaimer: if you PM me for a link I get free GBs…Dropbox too).

Or SugarSync.

I couldn't get by without these services, not only for file sharing but for cloud storage for myself.

Rob

 

[Chairman.Jobbie]

http://sendoid.com/

Sendoid is an on-demand peer to peer transfer system. It makes transferring any size file between two people as simple as clicking a link!

Worth a look - found them today. Seem to fit what you want.

 

[r.j.s]

How do you send a file to someone others dropbox?

Or, you could just use the same login info and only share those files between you ...

 

[mrmessenger]

Thanks!

 

[Palleraa]

Loads of good ideas. I use dropbox alot and actually created a seperate account for this purpose, but 2GB is a bit on the low side. Im gonna take a look at Worm. Preferably it shouldn't require any work on my side once the show is automatically recorded and saved to a folder it should become available to my friend without any software on his end.

Basically a FTP-server would be ideal, but all I can find is alot of over complicated and obsolete server programs. Maybe I should check out FileZilla server again.

 

[Sam2lucky13]

anyone ever use fileai?

 

[Sam2lucky13]

There is an app on the mac app store called Worml it is awesome for just this kind of task.
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/worml/id463103644?mt=12

absolutely fantastic and replaced fileai for me also no file size restriction!!!..i searched for something like this and came up empty a few months ago..

thanks!