How to share files with multiple recipients in GMail from Desktop

Often you have loads of files to share with your friends, family and colleague. But sharing your files with a group with tools such as Dropbox is a test of your patience. To share your files with a group of users you need to upload your files to a centralized server first, then generate a shared URL and send to the recipients that entire process could be much time consuming. What if you could share files directly from your computer to a group of people without going through so many time-consuming steps. Voila! I got across a freeware that allows you to share your files easily from your computer directly using Gmail - . It simplifies the process of file sharing by treating each of the Gmail addresses as unique IP address for all the computers with g2Peer installed.  Let’s see how to share files on your PC using g2Peer.

To share and receive files from computer you need to get on with the steps provided below

Sender Computer

Step 1: To begin with download and install g2Peer

Step 2: Launch g2Peer, go to Tools -> Config. Enter your Gmail address and password, select either POP3 or IMAP.

Step 3: Change the g2Peer status to online. For this, go to File ->Change Status ->Online

Step 4: In the Add your friends gmail address to Share Folders list followed by map the folder you would like to share.

Receiver Computer

There are two different methods that you can download shared files from the sender by using g2Peer software or gmail account.

To download shared files using g2Peer

Step 1: First follow the steps 1 to 3 mentioned above and have the computer configured with Gmail address with either POP3 or IMAP.

Step 2: Enter sender Gmail Address field at g2Peer interface and wait a moment until a list of shared files are displayed

Step 3: Select any displayed file, right-click on it and hit download

To download shared files using Gmail account

Step 1: Login to your Gmail account and go to Compose Mail. Under the To field type the sender email address. At Subject field, type ?_download and hit the send button.
Step 2: You would receive a response email with subject in the following format: {unique message ID}.{total size of spanned zip files}.{total number of spanned zip files}. For instance, !_20090622225415421.2103219.1_download_Done.

Step 3: Now open the e-mail and download the shared files via the link provided in the email content

Step 4: In case, you wanna list the shared files, send to the sender with ?_list.

Compatibility

g2Peer is compatible for Windows 2000/XP/Vista and requires no special hardware.

[Source: mydigitallife.info]