This is great news. Makes it a lot quicker to transfer files that aren't enormous, and reduces the need to always have a USB drive with you. Good work, google.

Let's make it infinity+1....

starting at 20 MB

It's never too much, when talking about the big G.

Are you listening Google, a bar, quick!

Google = Freedom, Remove the restrictions, it doesn't make sense why only 10MB or 20MB. Google can handle it.

Is there still the flexibility?

Eg can you upload 21mb?

I've never actually understood the reason for such a low threshold on attachments.

I like to send hi-res pics and several of them, so this limit has always been annoying.

Maybe that's the point, so Google can have apps like Picasa (and Web Albums), where I can upload any size photos I want and share them. Sort of an anti-cannibalism threshold. LOL =)

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Ja tenho esse tipo de problema com 10 megas, imagine com 20
Odeio nao fazer a menor ideia de qto do arquivo ja foi. Isso seria muito bem vindo!

The company I work for only allows its employees 20MB of space in their inbox/deleted items folder. A single email sent to me from a gmail user could block me from sending email until I permanently deleted the email. Urgh!

Status bar, PLEASE! I hate just watching the "loading" graphic for minutes and minutes praying my browser hasn't just frozen.

I'm not a big fan of large email attachments.

I want Gmail to natively support multiple-uploads from just one upload dialogue.

@anonymous: Picassa has a limit on the maximum file size (or maybe it's dimensions). It's something in the order of 10 MB, I think.

It was about time.

This measure was needed and I'm sure everyone will be satisfied... But I think you can do better.

I'm not asking for unlimited attachment size, but taking into account nowadays image's size (which are often what we like to share the most) 100-200mb will be a nice number to start with.

Probably I'm daydreaming, but that's my point.

Anyway, you guys, once again, lead the run... And the rest can't do nothing but try to follow you...
Be careful, they might catch you :P (just trying to increase the pressure there :P)

Bye !

but the speed of sending the mail that has so big attachment

That's good news, and avoid the necessity to go for other sites for uploading and storing such as rapidshare. Cheers!

It's nice to see that Google is continuing their mentality to just give us double what everyone else gives. I think this may spark a nice long post on the blog... Thanks for this man! Keep up the good posts!

What good is 20mb, when I wanna send out to GoogleGroups, the max size is still 1mb!!!!!

this is nice, but PDF as HTML sucks... Check out docufarm.com to view your documents online.

Why not have a GDrive? When you upload an attachment, Gmail intelligently uploads it to GDrive and attaches the link to it. So, there's no worry about big emails. I know this looks like we are using a third-party file hosting service.

@Alex: It's been quite a while that your page doesn't show up quite well on Firefox. I don't know what's causing the problem. On IE, it looks fine and I see ads there too :P

Indeed - Lack of a status bar is a serious BUG.

Oh no... bigger attachments means even faster running out of gmailstorage. I'd wish they'd give us more storage :-)

Never sent big attachments.

They'd better increase ridiculous 100 MB limit in googlepages and allow making directories there.

I use Opera when I upload bigger files to any site. The opera statusbar is smart, it shows exactly what is hapenning.

Its a great improvement over its competitors.
You know, if you increase even more, there may be some misuse of gmail. Like uploading pirated movies ;)

Jelda

Quoting:

Gmail was quite forgiving and you could send more than 10 MB in some cases


Maybe because they couldn't set exactly 10Mb as the limit, since all the binary files must be encoded, usually base64 encoded that are around 20-30% bigger. Since it's not an exact science they needed to set the limit to 12-13Mb instead of 10Mb.

That's not being forgiving, that's technical limitations... :-)

<< Maybe because they couldn't set exactly 10Mb as the limit, since all the binary files must be encoded, usually base64 encoded that are around 20-30% bigger. >>

Not true. You could upload 13-14 MB files. And that's the real size of the file.

you know, you could always use opera to get an upload bar.
and google could improve their opera support of course ;)

I use Opera (from time to time), but I don't see any status bar when uploading files to Gmail. Can you post a screenshot (upload it to a site like ImageShack)?

I don't understand. Most email servers won't receive emails larger than 10MB so what's the big deal?

its nice. but a progress bar is really needed..

Brian said... "I don't understand. Most email servers won't receive emails larger than 10MB so what's the big deal?"

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Example... my Quicken data file is about 10MB - so I was at the limit. A lot of people use Gmail for off-site storage of their most important data, and sometimes those files are more than 10MB.

There is also a changing in Google Groups attachment size limit, from 1Mb to 5Mb.

sucks basically. YOu can only send 20MB+ to other google accounts. and uploading 20MB quicker is possible with great NET speeds else ...sucks

This is great news. I definitely agree thought it would be nice to see a progress bar on larger attachments at least.

When I read about "bigger attachments in Gmail", the first thing that came to my mind was ...hmm, "a sub-optimal solution"

First, a big group of (web-)mail providers doesn´t accept mails this size; and this limitation won´t persuade those mail users to switch to Gmail overnight; it will rather create irritation for them

Second, I´d have expect an anouncement of a feature like "zip-attachments-on-the-fly", that would try to make attachments smaller instead of bigger.
For pictures this also could even have been a "crop-pictures-on-the-fly" feature, that allows you to crop your pictures to a selected maximum group size, while keeping them directly visible and usable for mail receivers.

Third, the *real* solution of course would have been the announcement of the Google Disk (or Google Storage), where you upload your stuff (not to Gmail, but) to Gdisk, and sent the pointer to the file(s) via Gmail. The receiver(s) can fetch their stuff on the Gdisk site. Result:
- no problems for users of other (web-)mail providers
- extra traffic from users of other (web-)mail providers to Google

It´s not to late for this...

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Pura vida . . .

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The size must be a little more. May be about 50 mb. But for now 20 mb is also as it is gmail. But whats the data transfer speed achieved.

To Peter - you can use YouSendIt to send big files with a link to an email system - 100 MB free - 2GB if you pay.

i'm hotmail for life. i'm sure you can receive attatchments of any size with whatever free email provider you have.

Google's generousness has no limits, obviously. They always know how to make their users just that little bit happier :)

Thank you, Google!

I think you geeks never leave proper instructions. What a waste of my time. When will you ever learn. You're all DONKS !

It does not make any difference

Grr. Trying to send myself a 35 MB file and am unable to do so.

Allow us to send larger files. 20 MB is not enough.

By the way, as a note to whomever is in charge of this page: I am using Firefox 2.0.0.4 for Mac, and this page keeps loading and reloading itself, as though it has some authentication problem. I have cookies enabled.

Thats great !!!!
I am just trying to upload 20mb file to confirm coz i still cant believe it.
Thank you google.

the bar could be great...

this is very nice but the problem with uploading attachment in gmail is the speed. it takes for ever to upload a big file. yahoo is much faster...

This is great :) Love the way some people complain about the free unlimited storage email provider doubling the size of its email attachments. The glass isn't quite full huh?

i ma facing difficulties in attaching a ppt of size 5MB on gmail.

Its too little.

thanks to google .... :-)

:( every time i made attachment >10MB i get this message in gmail

Technical details of permanent failure:
PERM_FAILURE: SMTP Error (state 16): 552 5.2.3 Message exceeds maximum fixed size (10485760)



do i need to have any setting changed to make 20 MB upload effective ??

waiting for reply asap :(:(

Are you using gmail's smtp server, or your ISP's?

thats nice google

Yes, a progress bar for the upload of attachments would be really great. No big free e-mail service provider implemented this yet.

Useful addition.

Obviously size will increase eventually. The others will have to catch up, forced to change. Good.

Still takes a while. Progress bar is essential.
Get with it.

just to know kinds of attachments send using gmail...like zip file ,pdf ,gif