Send files with FileSender

You can use FileSender in your web browser to send files and folders from your local device to another person. Navigate to https://filesender.aarnet.edu.au.

Restrictions

You can send up to 1,000 files at a time, with a combined maximum size of 10 TB per upload. AARNet has not comprehensively tested uploads of this size.

Send files

1. Click Transfer files in the top navigation menu.
2. Open your file explorer application and drag and drop the files or folders you want to share onto the window.
   
   Click Drag and drop or click here to select your files to transfer to upload one or more files from the same folder. Hold the SHIFT key when selecting files to select multiple files.
   Click Add an entire directory to your transfer to upload one a folder.
   Once the upload is complete, FileSender will display a list of the files that will be shared and their file size.
   
   

3. To add more files to your transfer, click Add more files or Add directory.

4. Click Next once you have added all of the files you want to transfer.
   If you want to remove all files from the transfer, click Clear all.
   If you want to remove a single file from the transfer, click the icon next to the file.

5. Choose how you want to transfer your files:
   
   If you want to share the link directly, such as through a private messaging application, toggle A transfer link.
   If you want FileSender to send a download link directly to your recipient’s email address, toggle An email.
6. If you choose to send an email to the recipient(s), enter the email address you want to send the file to. You can send files to multiple email addresses with a comma separating each email address. Alternatively, you can press Enter or Tab after each email address to show a new field.
   Click the icon next to an email address to remove it from the recipient list.
   
7. Enter a subject and message for the email. This isn’t required, but will help the recipient to know what the email is for and to avoid the email going to spam.
8. If the files you’re sending contain sensitive or private data, toggle File Encryption on and add a password.
   You can either enter your own password or click Generate a password to have FileSender create a strong password for you.
   Make sure you record this password; FileSender won’t save it for you.
   Find out more about encrypting files sent with FileSender.
   
   
9. Modify the date on which FileSender will make the files unavailable, up to 40 days in the future.
   The expiry date is automatically set to 21 days from the date you share the files, with the files deleted from FIleSender on this date. Having an expiry date helps to limit file access to people who need it. The transfer will expire at 23:59:59 UTC on the selected date.
   
   
10. If you want to receive notifications for significant events like FileSender finishing the upload, someone downloading a file, or an access expiry, click Show advanced settings and enable the notifications you want.
11. If you’re using a slow connection and have multiple large files to send, click Show advanced settings and toggle Disable parallel uploads on to improve your upload speed.
12. Click Send to start uploading your files.
    To add more files to your transfer, click Previous.
    To cancel the transfer and start again, click Cancel.

Once your files are finished sending, FileSender will display Success. Upload complete. If you configured your send to generate a link, FileSender will display a popup with your link to access the shared files.