How to Transfer Extremely Heavy Files Between Two Mac PCs?
File sharing is a day-to-day requirement in offices as well as homes. Sharing of small files can be done through USB drive. But if the need is to share heavy files with data up to numerous gigabytes (GBs), then you need more advance solutions.
Cloud-based services: Use Cloud-based services which are considered prudent ways of facilitating the transferring of large files in a very simple manner. Dropbox and Evernote are the two prominent Cloud based file sharing service providers in the market.
You just need to upload your files (documents, images, videos, etc) to the Cloud server and the files get available to be accessed instantly from another MAC PC. Sharing of files through this way is easy as it usually works under the simple drag-and-drop interface. Once uploaded on cloud server, you will be able to access the files not just from a MAC system but also from your mobile. The file sharing through cloud-based services is also much secure because only those will be able to access the shared file who are provided with permission by the file sharer. That means if your friend shares a file from one MAC system, then to access the files from another system, first you have to take permission from your friend.
Cloud-based services are considered best for file sharing as they support ample storage space that ranges from gigabytes to terabytes.
Web-based Email Account: You can also share files throughweb-based e-mail account. Traditional email accounts were not very effective in sending heavy files. Although, you can upload heavy files and send them but recipient may fail to receive the files and the e-mail bounces back. But the advanced mail services by Google and Microsoft posses no issues concerning lack of storage space or bouncing back of emails. Gmail by Google and Yahoo by Microsoft let you send and receive files up to the size of 25 megabytes. Sharing files through web-based e-mail account is very easy as you just have to upload the files as attachments and within a fraction of time, you can send the files to the intended recipient.
Peer-to-Peer File Sharing: You can also share heavy files directly from one MAC computer to another MAC system by using Peer-to-Peer file sharing, also known as P2P. P2P allows direct file sharing between two computers over the Internet connection through specialized software.
BitTorrent is one such software that supports easy file sharing by maximizing the network bandwidth. It doesn’t interfere with other internet activities going on your system such as Skype, VoIP calls, and video streaming.
Binfer is another software using which you can send and receive files of any quantity and size. In this software, you need not upload your files anywhere and this makes transferring of even larger files very easy.
The best part of this option is that virtually you can share files of any size. Using P2P, people have even uploaded and downloaded video files of movies length. But when it comes to security, then P2P can’t promise as much security as cloud-based and web-based email services do.
Hence, it doesn’t confirm 100% security and can get subjected to hacker attacks through which information like your Social Security Number (SSN), tax returns and medical records can be traced and misused.
With so many options available, file sharing becomes very easy and convenient. All you need is an Internet connection and you can share extremely heavy files, even of a movie size, with your friends located at any part of the world.