Ever need to send a file to someone but its too big to push through email?  Whether its photos of your darling new monkey in the house or the Keynote presentation for the meeting with the Big Banana, there always seems to be something I want to send that’s just too cumbersome for sending via email.  Fortunately, using your iDisk on Mobile Me, you can share documents of any size with anyone, quickly and easily.

First, put the document you want to share on your iDisk, the easiest way is to connect to your iDisk (if you’re not connected already) by clicking on the Desktop to get the Finder menu bar and then selecting Go>iDisk>My iDisk.  Once connected, your iDisk should show up in the sidebar in a Finder window and you can save files to it as you would any of your local drives. 

Once the file is there, we need to log in to Mobile Me’s web interface.  Go to www.me.com and sign in.  Click on the folder icon  on the top of the screen to access your iDisk.  Now, locate the file you want to share and look for the share button in the viewer pane on the right side and click it.

Now you can add the email addresses of the people you want to share the file with and even add a note.  Using the two links below the message field, you can set an expiration date for the file or add a password.  If you add a password, make sure to mention in your message that the person needs to contact you for it, DO NOT include the password in the message field as it will negate the benefits of having the password to begin with.

Once you click Share, iDisk sends an email to your recipients with a direct link to your file, all they have to do is click the Download button and they can download the file directly from your Mobile Me.

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