ACOnet FileSender is a secure way to share very large files with anyone!
Login via your institution to upload files or invite people to send you files.
If you have received an invitation to access this site as a guest then the email will contain the information you will need to access this site and upload files.
FileSender is a web based application that allows authenticated users to securely and easily send arbitrarily large files to other users. Users without an account can be sent a guest upload voucher by an authenticated user. FileSender is developed to the requirements of the higher education and research community.
If you have been sent a guest voucher from this site you have been invited to upload files one or more times. The simplest way to do that is using the information contained in the invitation email. When uploading as guest, be sure to verify that any links in the guest invitation email are to a FileSender that is running on a research facility you trust. If you are not expecting a guest link from a facility you know then the email might not be legitimate.
The user who invited you to this system might have done so allowing you to upload files and get a link to allow other folks to download those files. If you can not get a link then you will have to provide email address(es) of the people who you wish to invite to download the uploaded files.
If this installation of FileSender is on your research facility the login button on the top right of the page should let you login using standard institutional account. If you are unsure about what login credentials to use to access this FileSender then please contact your local IT support.
As an authenticated user you should be able to upload files one or more times and either have FileSender email the recipients after your upload completes or provide you with a link to allow file download. You should also be able to invite other researchers to the system to upload one or more files as a guest.
Any modern browser will download files of any size from the site. Nothing special is required for downloads.
If your browser supports HTML5 then you should be able to upload files of any size up to 350 GB. Current versions of Firefox and Chrome on Windows, Mac OS and Linux are known to have HTML5 support.
For more information please visit filesender.org
ACOnet FileSender is a local installation of the FileSender software at the University of Vienna, and is operated -- without any warranties -- by ACOnet, the Austrian Academic Computer Network. FileSender is developed to the requirements of the higher education and research community in the context of an open source project.
University of Vienna
Vienna University Computer Center
Department ACOnet & VIX
Universitaetsstrasse 7
1010 Vienna
Austria
Contact: filesender@aco.net
See ACOnet FileSender Datenverarbeitung (in German).
The ACOnet FileSender may only be used for the authorized transmission of large files between identifiable individuals.
Wilful abuse of this tool, e.g. for illegal file sharing activities, may lead to (among other consequences) lockout of the responsible parties.