Large file sharing
Large file exchange
Secure large file transfer, without splitting the working set
Send CAD packs, datasets, media and software packages through one controlled exchange. The file can stay whole while recipient identity, access conditions and download activity remain visible.
The workaround problem
Secure large file transfer for complete project packages
Mail gateway limits were set for mail. They now decide, by accident, which of your files travel through a governed route and which travel through whatever a member of staff found in a hurry.
The file is split
A pack becomes three archives sent separately, and the recipient cannot tell whether they have all of it.
The route changes
A consumer transfer service enters the workflow with no named recipient and no record.
The record disappears
The largest and often most valuable deliverables end up being the ones with the least evidence attached.
What large actually means
The files that break ordinary sharing.
Large is rarely one enormous file. It is usually a structured set that has to arrive complete and in order, which is why splitting it causes as much trouble as the size itself.
Structure matters as much as size
A project folder is not a big file. It is a directory of related material where the arrangement carries meaning, and where an incomplete arrival is worse than a slow one.
Design and engineering
CAD models, drawing sets, point clouds and simulation output, often revised repeatedly under a delivery deadline.
Media and creative
Master video, raw photography, audio sessions and layered artwork, where compression is not an acceptable answer.
Data and analytics
Exports, backups and research datasets that may also carry personal or commercially sensitive content.
Legal and disclosure
Evidence bundles and scanned document sets that must arrive as a coherent, indexed whole.
Software and builds
Release artefacts, images and archives going to partners, integrators or customers.
Two ways a large file travels
The size problem is solved either way. Only one of them keeps the governance.
A consumer transfer service will move a twelve-gigabyte folder perfectly well. What it will not do is tell you six months later who collected it.
What the workaround costs
Fast to adopt, invisible to the organisation, and outside every control the business has put in place.
- Unnamed recipients. Anyone with the link, for as long as the provider keeps it.
- Provider-set retention. The lifetime of your data is somebody else's default.
- No organisational record. Nothing to review, and nothing to produce on request.
- Split packages. Multi-part uploads that arrive incomplete more often than anyone admits.
What keeping it inside preserves
The same identity, lifecycle and evidence model that applies to a one-page document.
- Named recipients. Entitlement belongs to a person, at any payload size.
- Your retention decision. Availability ends when you decided it should.
- A single package. Complete folders with structure preserved through the transfer.
- The same evidence. Activity retained with the transaction as usual.
The same route, at any size
A large transfer should not be a different process.
If the controls change when the file gets bigger, staff learn two workflows and use the easier one. Keeping the sequence identical is what makes the approved route hold under pressure.
Select
Choose the file, bundle or complete folder, with structure preserved.
Prepare
Name the recipients and set permissions and expiry as you would for anything else.
Transfer
Upload with visible progress, through a governed route instead of a consumer service.
Confirm
Check delivery and access from the same record as any other exchange.
Why it matters
The transfers most worth governing are often the ones your gateway quietly refuses.
A design pack, a customer data export and a disclosure bundle all have consequence attached. Removing the size obstacle keeps them inside the route you can actually review.
Try it with a real deliverable
Send the file that usually breaks your normal process.
Start a seven-day trial for up to five users and test a genuine project folder, not a sample. That is the transfer that will decide it.