You can send a zip file in Gmail if you want to send a large file or folder to someone without using Google Drive. Gmail has a hard 25 MB limit for sending attachments over email, and if you try ...

To attach a folder to an Email, in Outlook, Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo, or any other email service provider, you can use this trick.

For attaching multiple files to an email, another possibility is to compress the files into an archive (ZIP, RAR, 7Z, GZ, BZ2, etc.). But, that topic is best discussed in a separate article.

Zip a File The traditional and common method of sending large files through email requires compressing the data into a zip file.