Is the Zip File Too Big for E-mail?
Some mail servers don’t allow mail to attach files over a certain length. When this occurs, you may need to break down the zip file into smaller files. The trick I use is this: I take the total size of the zip file and divide it by the maximum size I can send. This will tell me the number of zip files I need to create. I then copy the current zip file that many times, each to a new name. For example, if I have a zip file called thadius.zip and I need to break this down into three zip files, I would copy thadius.zip to thadius1.zip, thadius2.zip, and thadius3.zip. Next, I would load up into Winzip the first of the new zip files, in this case thadius1.zip, and I would delete from the end of the list enough files to make the size of the zip file roughly one third of the original. You can use the File Explorer to watch the actual size of the zip file. If I remove too much, I simply copy over the archive from the original and start over. Once I have removed enough files, I write down the na
