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> Most people I know e-mail files to themselves It would be nice if that still worked. My resume exists in an iCloud drive, and I spent ten minutes on my phone
by sillysaurusx 5mo ago
> Most people I know e-mail files to themselves
It would be nice if that still worked. My resume exists in an iCloud drive, and I spent ten minutes on my phone trying to figure out how to attach it to a gmail message before giving up. "Copying" a file isn't even a well-defined operation anymore. (Or at least "pasting" doesn't always paste it.)
- genxy 5mo agoWhen you get stuck in a task like this, you realize that civilization will collapse with a whimper.
- dghlsakjg 5mo agoIt’s literally: click the paper clip logo in Gmail, tap files, pick your file. You can also just go into the files app, tap and hold, tap copy, go to Gmail tap and hold in your draft email, tap paste. There’s other paths that work too, like hitting the “send to” logo in files and then selecting Gmail. It’s really the exact same patterns I might use on a computer for the most part.
- deleted 5mo ago[deleted]
- matsemann 5mo agoGoogle will often convert it to a gdrive thing instead. So you're not sending the file, just a link to the file uploaded somewhere. I'm not sure what heuristic it uses, but sometimes when mailing photos like half of them are included in the mail and half automagically uploaded to gdrive instead.
- Semaphor 5mo agoThat sounds like some kind of weird google interface issue. Maybe try using IMAP or POP or whatever standard they still deign to support.
- TiredOfLife 5mo agoemail providers have limits for size. Modern files are huge.
- matsemann 5mo agoYeah but it's the silent conversion that irks me. My email is no longer self contained or archivable. When I find it again in the future, the files might be gone.
- Forgeties79 5mo agoAnything over 25mb goes out via gdrive if memory serves. That’s at least how it used to be.
- sillysaurusx 5mo agoThanks. I saw Photos and Drive, and apparently I missed "Attachments". Still, copy-pasting a file should work. It's unclear what "copy" even does.
- watermelon0 5mo agoSharing files between apps and file management in general on iOS is atrocious. I assumed this was a solved problem before Windows 98 (first desktop OS I used), but Apple cannot get this right 28 years later.
- amluto 5mo agoAt least there is a Files app these days, and many iOS apps interoperate a little bit with “Files”.
- mananaysiempre 5mo agoFunnily enough, Windows 98 is the first OS I remember with a sharing menu (“Send To”, which is memorable to me because the official Russian localization of it was suggestive of an obscenity). It seemed so pointless back then.
- cyanydeez 5mo agowith llms, you'd think we could use email as a passthrough proxy