Mountain View, California — If you use Gmail or YouTube making large attachments poses is a big no-no unless you have got a bit more space to play with in terms of file size for both the services. Now you can send bigger attachments, as Google Inc. has increased the maximum file size limits on its Gmail from 20 Megabytes to 25 Megabytes. Also YouTube, the popular video-sharing unit of Google has doubled the size of videos uploaded on its site to 2 gigabytes, in an apparent attempt to ease the use of high-definition content, but non-partner clips are still limited in length to 10 minutes.
Although there are other method than email to send large files to recipients. However, the current increase in limit may be small, but the offer is welcome all the same. The message announcing the increase in the Gmail help pages is a bit cheeky when referring to the recepient who uses e-mal services other than Gmail. The announcement states:
“With Gmail, you can send and receive messages up to 25 megabytes (MB) in size. Please note that you may not be able to send larger attachments to contacts who use other email services with smaller attachment limits. If your attachment bounces, you should invite them to Gmail,” suggests Google.
This would certainly be newsworthy for users who regularly shuffle emails with large attachments but also for Gmail users who like to backup files by sending them to their Gmail account. The attachment limit is obviously working in both ways which means that it is possible to send emails with a size of up to 25 Megabytes but also to receive emails that stay below that limit.
The new Gmail attachment limit is already activated on all Gmail accounts, unlike some other changes to the email service that is usually distributed over time.
Also, the YouTube file size upload limit is noted here on its help pages comes less than a year after YouTube increased the size limit from 100 megabytes.
With the introduction of HD to YouTube the 1GB size limit on uploads was pretty insufficient so Google decided to double it. The good news is that you now have 2GB of storage to play with, but the downside is that video is still limited to 10 minutes in length.
For additonal information, read more at Google Operating System.