What happens if I exceed the attachment file size limit?

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Description

We look at what happens when attachment file sizes are over the limit and how to resize your files using an online file re-sizing service.

Length

4 min 52 secs

Transcript

Current Limit

Now we're going to have a look at what happens when we exceed the maximum file size limit for attachments.

The current limit is set at 7MB. That might be revised upward in the future. We'll just try it at 7MB for a while and see how it goes.

Select Under and Over Size Attachments

So over here we've started a new topic. We've got our subject entered in. We've got the text of our message entered in.

We'll go down here to the attachments bar, single left click. It opens up our file selection window.

And these three beach shots here, they're all under 7MB. And these three berry shots, they're all over 7MB.

So let's pick two under and two over and we'll see what happens.

Over Size Limit Error Message

So straight away it's come up and tells us that the two large ones are over size.

Now we can either leave these little error messages there and just go ahead and post, or we can close them.

So we'll just do an experiment and close one, leave one open.

And when this finishes loading up, we'll go ahead and post.

Save the Post

So there they are, there's our two under 7MB attachments and it's just dropped the over size ones.

But let's say we particularly want those larger shots.

So we'll go down here to the More button, single left click on Modify.

Opens up our posting window again, shows us the two attachments that we've already uploaded.

Resizing an Image

So we'll now go to a site called Image Resizer. And here you can select an image, so we'll select an image.

And we'll pick the largest of the three, this one's 7.6MB. And we'll open that up. It loads up.

Now they offer us two methods for resizing, one by dimensions or the second one by the target file size.

Choose Resize by File Size

And that's the one we want, that's our problem, so we'll change this to megabytes and we'll say 1MB.

Now that may seem low but it's quite sufficient, particularly with this amount of resolution to produce a nicely detailed image.

So we'll single left click on resize image, it processes it.

Download the Resized Image

And now it offers to download it, so we download it.

And we're going to save it in the same folder and you notice here the name ending - the last four digits, 3124, 3124.

And it's stuck a 1 on the end to rename it.

Now if your browser doesn't do that, just put anything on the end there, 1MB - something to indicate that it's different to this one.

So we'll save that.

Add the Resized file

So that's on our PC now, and we go back to our modify message window and we click on the attachment bar again.

And there it is in the folder and we mouse over it and it's 927 kilobytes, so it's under the 1MB level.

So we'll open that. It loads up. Go ahead and post it. Now we have the two beach shots and the berry shot.

So that's a pretty easy and straightforward way to get around the size limit issue.

Image Resizing Services

And this Image Resize site, there's thousands of these. I just picked this one because it's very simple to use and it offers those two resizing methods. We don't have to register or pay or whatever.

But if this site goes away or changes their requirements in some way, just search for online image resizing and there should be a good selection.