sending large attachments

[Tree]

I tried to send an attachment with pictures using Outlook. I was obviously
too large.
Now it just keeps sitting there in my outbox and is bogging down everything
I try to send since . I've tried to delete it - but I'm told that the
message is already sending so I can't. Obviously the system keeps trying to
send it.

Will it stop with this at some point - how do I delete this large message?

 

[Roady [MVP]]

Place Outlook in Offline Mode via File-> Word Offline and restart Outlook.
See if you can delete it now.
For additional solutions see;
http://www.howto-outlook.com/faq/messagestuckinoutbox.htm

 

[Kathleen Orland]

Open the email, then close it and try to delete it then. If that doesn't
work for you, here are other methods to try:

http://www.howto-outlook.com/faq/messagestuckinoutbox.htm

 

[VanguardLH]

I tried to send an attachment with pictures using Outlook. I was
obviously too large. Now it just keeps sitting there in my outbox and
is bogging down everything I try to send since . I've tried to
delete it - but I'm told that the message is already sending so I
can't. Obviously the system keeps trying to send it.

Will it stop with this at some point - how do I delete this large
message?

Delete an item stuck in the Outbox folder:
- Load Outlook.
- Put Outlook in offline mode (File -> Work Offline: enable).
- Exit Outlook.
- Load Outlook in its safe mode ("outlook.exe /safe").
- Delete the stuck item in the Outbox folder. If you don't want the
item to move into the Deleted Items folder, use Shift+Del to
permanently delete the item.
- Put Outlook in online mode (File -> Work Offline: disable).
- Restart Outlook in its normal mode.

E-mail is NOT a reliable file transfer mechanism. It wasn't intended or
designed for that. It was designed to send lots of small messages.
There is no CRC check on the file to ensure integrity. There is no
resume to re-retrieve the file if the e-mail download fails. There is
no guarantee the e-mail will arrive uncorrupted. Large e-mails can
generate timeouts and retries due to the delay when anti-virus programs
interrogate their content.

Stop using e-mail to send large files. It is rude to the recipient.
Not every recipient might want your large file. Not every recipient has
high-speed broadband Internet access. Many users still use slow dial-up
access, especially if all they do is e-mail. You waste your e-mail
provider's disk space and their bandwidth to send a huge e-mail. You
waste the e-mail provider's disk space and bandwidth at the recipient's
end. You eat up the disk quota for the recipient's mailbox (which could
render it unusable so further e-mails get rejected due to a full
mailbox). You irritate users still on dial-up that have to wait eons
waiting to download your huge e-mail. Some users have usage quotas
(i.e., so many bytes/month) and you waste it with a file that they may
not want. Stop being rude. Take the large file out of the e-mail.

Save the file in online storage and send the recipient a URL link to the
file. Your e-mail remains small. It is more likely to arrive. It is
more likely to be seen. The recipient can decide whether or not and
when to download your large file. Be polite.

Your ISP probably allows many gigabytes of online storage for personal
web pages. Upload your file there and provide a URL link to it. Other
methods (of using online storage), all free, are:

http://www.adrive.com/ (50GB max quota, 2GB max file size)
http://www.driveway.com/ (500MB max file size)
http://www.filefactory.com/ (300MB max file size)
http://www.megashares.com/ (10GB max file size)
http://www.rapidupload.com/ (300MB max file size)
http://www.sendspace.com/ (300MB max file size)
http://www.spread-it.com/ (500MB max file size)
http://www.transferbigfiles.com/ (1GB max file size)
http://zshare.net/ (500MB max file size)
http://www.zupload.com/ (500MB max file size)

If it is sensitive content and when storing it online in a public
storage area or to guard it against whomever operates the online storage
service, remember to encrypt it.

 

[Binfer.com]

Delete an item stuck in the Outbox folder:
- Load Outlook.
- Put Outlook in offline mode (File -> Work Offline: enable).
- Exit Outlook.
- Load Outlook in its safe mode ("outlook.exe /safe").  
- Delete the stuck item in the Outbox folder.  If you don't want the
  item to move into the Deleted Items folder, use Shift+Del to
  permanently delete the item.
- Put Outlook in online mode (File -> Work Offline: disable).
- Restart Outlook in its normal mode.

E-mail is NOT a reliable file transfer mechanism.  It wasn't intended or
designed for that.  It was designed tosendlots of small messages.
There is no CRC check on the file to ensure integrity.  There is no
resume to re-retrieve the file if the e-mail download fails.  There is
no guarantee the e-mail will arrive uncorrupted.  Largee-mails can
generate timeouts and retries due to the delay when anti-virus programs
interrogate their content.  

Stop using e-mail tosendlargefiles.  It is rude to the recipient.
Not every recipient might want yourlargefile.  Not every recipient has
high-speed broadband Internet access.  Many users still use slow dial-up
access, especially if all they do is e-mail.  You waste your e-mail
provider's disk space and their bandwidth tosenda huge e-mail.  You
waste the e-mail provider's disk space and bandwidth at the recipient's
end.  You eat up the disk quota for the recipient's mailbox (which could
render it unusable so further e-mails get rejected due to a full
mailbox).  You irritate users still on dial-up that have to wait eons
waiting to download your huge e-mail. Some users have usage quotas
(i.e., so many bytes/month) and you waste it with a file that they may
not want.  Stop being rude. Take thelargefile out of the e-mail.

Save the file in online storage andsendthe recipient a URL link to the
file.  Your e-mail remains small.  It is more likely to arrive.  Itis
more likely to be seen.  The recipient can decide whether or not and
when to download yourlargefile.  Be polite.

Your ISP probably allows many gigabytes of online storage for personal
web pages.  Upload your file there and provide a URL link to it.  Other
methods (of using online storage), all free, are:

http://www.adrive.com/             (50GB max quota, 2GB maxfile size)http://www.driveway.com/           (500MB max file size)http://www.filefactory.com/        (300MB max file size)http://www.megashares.com/         (10GB max file size)http://www.rapidupload.com/        (300MB max file size)http://www.sendspace.com/         (300MB max file size)http://www.spread-it.com/          (500MB max file size)http://www.transferbigfiles.com/   (1GB max file size)http://zshare.net/                 (500MB maxfile size)http://www.zupload.com/            (500MB max file size)

If it is sensitive content and when storing it online in a public
storage area or to guard it against whomever operates the online storage
service, remember to encrypt it.

Another alternative that uses a P2P model to send very large files
privately. http://www.binfer.com

 

[walrus]

I have the same problem, outlook keeps sending an e-mail with a large
attachment.
Where can I find that mail to delete so that outlook will stop sending?

 

[Kathleen Orland]

The instructions are right below your post.

Open the email, then close it and try to delete it then. If that doesn't
work for you, here are other methods to try:

http://www.howto-outlook.com/faq/messagestuckinoutbox.htm