FileTransfer.io turns the files you need to hand over into one link. You add the files, the upload runs, and you get back a link to pass on however you like. Nothing is installed, neither side has to sign up, and the two of you do not have to be online at the same moment: the link waits.
Everything in one go is called a data package. A package can hold as many files as you like as long as the total stays under 4 GB, and it keeps working for 3 days.
Mailboxes usually refuse attachments over 20 or 25 MB, and a video, a photo set or a design file passes that long before it is finished. A link has no such ceiling — the message stays a few hundred characters whatever the package weighs, so it goes through corporate mail filters that would bounce the file itself.
The same applies to chat apps that silently compress what you send. A download from a link gives back the original file, byte for byte, at full resolution.
| What | Without an account | With a free LimeWire account |
|---|---|---|
| One data package | up to 4 GB | up to 4 GB |
| Files per day | 20 | 50 |
| Downloads | 10 a day | 20 a day |
| Kept for | 3 days | 3 days (40 GB of storage) |
| History of what you sent | — | yes |
Larger single transfers and more daily traffic are what the paid plans add; they are listed on the LimeWire pricing page. For passing one package to one person, the free column is usually all you need.
A package is reachable only through its own link, and that link is long and unguessable — it will not appear in a search engine and cannot be arrived at by typing something plausible.
What the link is not is a password. Anybody holding it can download the package, so treat it the way you would treat the files: send it to the person it is meant for rather than to a public channel. A package sent without an account cannot be deleted early: it disappears by itself after 3 days.
No. Sending and receiving both work without an account. An account adds a history of your transfers and 40 GB of storage; links still expire after 3 days.
No. They open the link and download the package.
4 GB in one data package, and up to 20 files a day without an account. Paid LimeWire plans raise the ceiling well beyond that.
3 days. On paid LimeWire plans links do not expire.
Ten times a day. A package uploaded from a LimeWire account can be downloaded twenty times a day.
Not after a short drop: the upload retries on its own and keeps the parts already sent. If the connection stays down for more than a couple of minutes, start the upload again.
No, we do not send e-mails. Copy the link and paste it into your own e-mail, chat or message.
Not without an account: there is no confirmation e-mail, and a package sent without an account disappears by itself after 3 days. Files uploaded from a LimeWire account can be deleted from the account page.
Anything illegal where you are, and anything you do not hold the rights to. Packages reported for abuse are removed and the link stops working.
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Most failed handovers are a format problem, not a transfer problem. Convert or shrink the file first and the person on the other end can open it straight away. Everything below runs in the browser on LimeWire, free and without an account.
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