Sometimes there are situations when you need to quickly send a file from one computer to another. That way 5-10 years ago, in order to transfer information to each other, it was necessary most often to use floppy disks, disks. The most resourceful users went to visit each other with hard drives. Now, in the age of high-speed internet, file sharing has become incredibly easy. There are many ways to share files, let's take a look at the most popular ones.
Sharing on a local network
The very first thing to mention is "Sharing" for files and folders on the local network. To share files and transfer them between home devices, the global Internet is not at all necessary. As an example, let's take a look at the Windows 7 operating system with a local network already configured.
Select a folder in Windows 7, hover over its icon and right-click. Select "Properties", find the "Access" tab and click on it. Click on the "Share" button, in the window that opens, you need to configure access to the selected folder.
Select "All" from the drop-down list and then click the "Add" button. Now in the window of the list of users who have access to the folder, there will be an item "All", opposite it you can see the access level and by default it is set to "Read". To enable users connecting to the folder to delete and edit files, you need to change the "Read" value and put "Read and Write" instead. Then click on "Share" and then a window will appear with the "Done" button in the lower right corner, click on it.
The folder has already been shared, but most likely, when accessing it from another computer, you will need to enter a username and password. To fix this, you need to turn off password protected sharing. It is assumed that you will be using shared folders on your home network, which means that there is no need to protect files with a password.
To disable the function, open the "Control Panel", then go to "Network and Sharing Center", on the left, find and click the link "Change advanced sharing settings." In the large list of settings, find Password Protected Sharing and disable it. Now users will be able to connect to the shared folder without entering a password.
Cloud storage
A very modern way to share files is to upload them to the cloud storage. The choice of services providing this function is great. For example, the popular search services Mail, Yandex and Google already have them. That is, if a user has mail on one of these resources, then he automatically gets access to the Cloud.
It is most convenient to use file sharing using the Yandex. Disk application, but first you need to download and install the application itself. To do this, log into Yandex, select "My Drive", in the upper right corner, find the application for your device. We'll take a look at Yandex. Disk for Windows. After downloading and installing it, hover over a file or folder, right-click and select "Yandex. Disk: Copy public link" in the context menu. At this point, the sharing can be considered complete, it remains to send the link to the file to someone.
If you use Cloud @ Mail, things are a little different here. In the context menu, as in the case of Yandex, you cannot select anything. Here you need to log in to Mail, then select the cloud icon. Once in the web interface, drag the required file into it, or find and click the "Download" button in the upper left corner of the screen. After uploading the file to the cloud, hover over it, while the icon of two chain links will be displayed on the right of the file, activate it. You can send the resulting link to anyone; later, if necessary, you can delete the link created on a file or folder.
Google cloud storage also has the function of sharing a file or folder. Log in to your account, then select Drive. Once inside, fill in the file here using one of the proposed methods. Then right-click on the file or folder, select "Sharing", set the access settings as you like, for example, "Everyone who has this link" will do. Next, copy the link to the file and share it with people.
Conclusion
There are, in addition to the described, many more ways to share files with each other. For example, cloud storage without registration. You can add some small, not very important files to them. Convenient file sharing services: DropMeFiles, F-Bit, GE. TT, Minus, File Dropper, OneDayFiles, etc. In addition, you can transfer files to each other using Skype, ICQ, mail.
