Ventured down to deepest darkest Cornwall on Saturday for a christening.

All the photos from the event that we didn't take were going to be transferred to the memory card on my camera; however, the guy doing the transferring couldn't get the computer he was using to recognise his USB card reader.

So no transfers, computer says no.

Seeing as Cornwall's a hell of a trek from here, the options are?

Now, I have 50mb webspace as part of my broadband deal; I have no idea how I access it but I would assume the guy could upload the files?

Second option; we use the Remote Assistance feature in XP and I access his pc and grab the files that way.

Or Frostwire? Set up a direct connection that way?

Imageshack?

What's the simplest way? (Was advised by someone "in the know" down there to snail-mail a memory stick and do it that way :ugh::ugh:)

You could get them to burn onto CD and post it.... or...

The company I used to work for has a free download which may be of assistance to you Interoute Express | Welcome (http://www.interouteexpress.com/)

The person with your photos would require it on their machine, they could then zip all the photos into one big file, right click and send using interoute express. This utility will upload the file to the interoute servers and provide a link to email to anyone who wishes to download it - after 30 days the link will expire and the file will be purged.

Type "free file transfer" into google, pick one! :ok:

SD

Try using 'Gigatribe' - there is a free version you can use, and in the first 30 days, you have the option of using 'direct connection' so no need to tinker with firewalls. You can set whichever directories you can go into etc etc.

Really simple. Get him to upload them to photobucket and email you the share link. You can then view them and download them......
Login to your Photobucket.com account (http://register.photobucket.com/)
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I have a need to transfer a 40 or so MB .pdf file of a mag I edit to my (human) printer every month. So far I have not managed to discover how to use my spare webspace to do this (no doubt easy-peasy to many readers here) so I split the file into 16MB chunks and e-mail them to him. Trial and error has shown that his btinternet service can just about accept a file of up to 17 MB in size and, as you can imagine neither his or my ISP says that there is any restriction at all. It's slow, but simple and it works.

P.P.

Have a look at this program: http://www.cc-file-transfer.com/

As Saab says that search string will produce results.

From personal experience I had to send a 42 meg jpeg last week to a photographic printer. On his suggestion I used yousendit when my e-mail from a hotel baulked at the task. Simple and very fast.

Rob

Isnt the problem that the computer will not recognise the card reader?

In that case it doesn't matter which programme you use, you still cant get the images onto the computer?

Use a different computer or card reader then problem solved?

T2 - I had to read it a few times too, but I DEDUCE that the pics ARE on the computer but could not be put onto Stacey's memory card so S could not 'come home' with the pics on the card.

Phew! Hope I'm right...................:)

Your 50MB of web space is likely accessible by FTP, but the exact method will be set by the web provider. If it is FTP, uploading is pretty easy with a FTP program, you just need the username and password. They must have documented that somewhere. Who's the web provider and what's the package called?

Another possibility is to use a free Dropbox (http://www.getdropbox.com/) account. When it's set up, files dropped in a folder on one computer are replicated automatically to all other computers (that are set up to use the same account), just as quickly as the data can be transferred. It also serves as a file backup service, with undelete and saving of multiple file versions accessible via their website.

For pure simplicity I wouldn't discount the file transferring within skype either.

Rob

T2 - I had to read it a few times too, but I DEDUCE that the pics ARE on the computer but could not be put onto Stacey's memory card so S could not 'come home' with the pics on the card.

Phew! Hope I'm right...................:)

Sorry for not being clearer, yes that's the exact situation.

Your 50MB of web space is likely accessible by FTP, but the exact method will be set by the web provider. If it is FTP, uploading is pretty easy with a FTP program, you just need the username and password. They must have documented that somewhere. Who's the web provider and what's the package called?

It's a Virgin/Blueyonder 10mb package, that's all I know.....never been into building webpages and the like so I've never bothered with it.

Virgin - Blueyonder Web Space info : Read all about it :ok: :

Blueyonder Webspace help - Webspace - Help - Virgin Media (http://www.virginmedia.com/help/webspace/blueyonder-webspace-help.php)

http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d129/coconut11/Coconutty.jpg

Yep: FTP. That page has instructions for using CuteFTP, a friendly FTP program, to upload files. The "how to use" link has login details. You can use the program to download, though a web browser will do it too.

As Mr. Towers suggests, from a CHI (Computer Human Interaction) point of view I would suggest Skype or any other instant messaging software already installed on both the sender and the receiver's computers.

From a pure, elegant simplicity point of view, use netcat :)

Just don't try attaching them to an e-mail. From my experiences, that way is fraught with problems.

Keef: I couldn't agree more, but having tried some of the solutions suggested above to solve my problem - to be able to download a 50 Mb file once a month to my (human) printer, they are even more complex! So far, I have discovered that I can put a new folder on my website's server. If I put a file called index.html in this folder and gve my (human) printer the instructions to log onto my website/new folder to which nobody else has the name, his browser will open this particular index.html file. Now I need the html code to make the button "download" appear and if he clicks on this, the process of downloading another file in this folder will commence to his machine, just like it does whenever we all decide that we want to download something and press a button on other websites like cnet. No permissions, no identifiers, and in this instance, password protection is not required. Why does it have to be so difficult??

P.P.

It doesn't have to be so difficult. If you've a folder "wubble", and you upload a file "wibble.zip" to it, simple email the name of the file to your friend: http : / / www. randomdomainname .com (http://www. randomdomainname .com) / wubble / wibble.zip

Now THAT method I use all the time. I have an ISP who provides lots of nice, free webspace. I send folks a link - it may end .jpg or .xls or .pub or who knows what.

Never fails. FileZilla to upload, whatever browser they like to download.

I agree with Bushfiva: once the files are uploaded, you don't need to write a webpage, it's just a matter of figuring out the URL of each file and sending it over. It might start with ftp:// rather than http://, by which you're just telling the browser what method to use to download it.

So, say your Blueyonder alias is ppilcher, and you uploaded a file called bumph.zip to a folder called stuff, then (according to the online instructions) the I think URL of the file looks like:
ftp://www.ppilcherpwp.blueyonder.co.uk/stuff/bumph.zip

That extra "pwp" seems to be set by BlueYonder - I don't know, I would just try it with and without the "pwp" in the name.

You could make a default web page (index.html) with links, to make it easier for the other guy - but you would still need to know the URLs to do that - so email is just as good. (Test the URL before sending it, of course!)

However, at the risk of asking the obvious ... didn't you say it was a 10MB account? If so, they will not let you upload 50MB files!

Thanks for all your suggestions everyone. I will be working on them.
bnt: It must be a typo. My ISP gives me 100 MB of webspace and the commercial application of my site uses about 15MB.

P.P.