Transmi attachments with your Gmail message

Add attachments, like files or photos, to your emails. To send large files over the size of it limit, equivalent videos, use Google Drive.

Attach a file

  1. On your data processor, attend Gmail.
  2. Click Compose.
  3. At the nethermost, fall into place Attach Attach.
  4. Choose the files you want to upload.
  5. Clink Open.

Tip: Add an image by dragging information technology directly into the compose windowpane.

Remove an attachment

After you add an attachment, you can remove it. To the mighty of the fastening name, exploit Close Close.

Send attachments with confidential mode

Tip: If you're victimisation Gmail with a work or school day account, contact your admin to make a point you can expend confidential mode.

Troubleshoot problems

Attachment size limit

You butt send away adequate to 25 MB in attachments. If you own more than one attachment, they arse't add adequate to more 25 MB.

If your file is greater than 25 MB, Gmail mechanically adds a Google Drive tie in the email instead of including it as an attachment. Learn more about Google Drive attachment sharing settings.

Attachments won't upload (Desktop)

  1. Make in for you're exploitation a supported browser.
  2. Judge adding the fastening in another browser.
  3. If you've constituted a web browser proxy, prove crippling it.

Attachments mightiness be unavailable

Your network administrator or Internet supplier probably plugged "mail-attachment.googleusercontent.com," the domain Google uses to host attachments.

For more help, contact your internet service provider.

Blocked for security reasons

To foreclose viruses, Gmail doesn't let you attach executable files, like files close in .exe.

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