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I'm often in a situation where I spend quick exchanges with some coleagues - small files in size - goes to them, comes back to me 2 minutes later - then 5 minutes after, again, off it goes.
What would be the easiest way (firefox/explorer plugin?/something) to automate it to some degree ? The perfect answer would enable to right click on a file "Send via GMail", a new compose mail windows opens, I add some few words and off it goes ?
Anything like that exists ?
Edit: Unfortunatelly, Dropbox & co. won't help me here. I know of them, and use them, but to solve this problem everyone else would need to use them as well ... and that creates a problem, for even if I could persuade them to use it (very difficult, border next to impossible) some of them could have problems installing it (being on company workstations where they don't always control the software installed).
It sounds like a proper solution to the problem would be to use something like Dropbox, or perhaps even hosting a version control system (which would allow you to add comments to any changes). As you point out, installing software on your colleagues' machines is not ideal. But if improving this awkward-sounding file-sharing process could save time in the long run, then it's worth sitting down with your team and picking the right tool for the job. – sblair – 2009-12-23T15:50:36.697
Yes, but the problem is not everyone in here are computer oriented users (and none, or maybe one of them (I'm not sure) is a programmer). The files in question are not source files, but results of some measurements. Installing software is a problem since I have no juridistiction over their computers ... – Rook – 2009-12-23T16:29:37.533