It will turn red before you send the message.This tutorial describes a connector built on top of the Azure AD User Provisioning Service. If person receiving the message doesn’t have a message account their name will turn red like this. The person receiving the message must have an iMessage account with Apple. If they have an iMessage account their name will go blue when you enter it like the picture above. It will pick up the contacts from your address book. You’ll then get a window where you can type the name of the person you want to send the file to. You simply right-click on the file that you want to share, go to ‘share’ and select ‘Messages.’ Thankfully there is a super easy one step way to share a file using Message. It’s easier than any of the above methods, so long as you and the person you are sending the file to have Apple Message accounts. Then you need to get its address which you email to the person so that they can access it.

Firstly you need to upload the file to Google drive or copy it into dropbox. Google Drive and Dropbox both require a few steps. Google drive lets you share files over the internet – up to 15GB for free.ĭropbox is one of the most popular services – it gives you up to 2GB for free. There are various ways to share larger files:Īirdrop is good, but it only works over a local wifi network so it’s very limited, not much better than a thumb drive. Note that even if you can send a 25MB attachment, the person at the other end might not be able to receive a file that large! The email attachment limit varies with your email provider. If you’ve ever tried to email a very large file you may have noticed there’s a limit of about 10MB on email attachments. Here’s a super easy way to send a large file to someone else using OSX Mountain Lion or later.

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