How to send a folder to someone
You cannot attach a folder to an email. That is not a limitation of your mail client — folders are not a thing you can attach, anywhere. So the real question is what you send instead, and every option has a different failure mode.
The short answer
Most people zip it. Zipping works, but it pushes all the work onto the recipient: they have to download an archive, unzip it, and find their way around a folder they did not organise. If what is inside is a page or a document, there is a better shape for this.
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The three realistic options
1. Zip it and attach it
Works everywhere, costs nothing. What goes wrong:
- Mail providers cap attachments — usually 20–25 MB, sometimes less
- The recipient has to unzip before they can see anything
- On a phone, unzipping is somewhere between awkward and impossible
- If the folder contains a web page, opening it from the extracted copy works only for the person who extracted it, and only on that machine
2. Put it in a cloud drive
Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, WeTransfer. This solves the size problem and gives you a link. What goes wrong:
- Folders become an archive or a file list — the recipient still has to download and unzip to browse it
- Permission models are easy to get wrong: "anyone with the link" is one dropdown away from "only me"
- Both of you usually need an account
- Shared links get revoked, or expire, silently
3. Turn the folder into a link that opens
Drag the whole folder onto Plopino. Every file is uploaded with its directory structure intact, and the link opens as a browsable page:
- Open plopino.com
- Drag the folder onto the page — the whole folder, not its contents
- Send the link
If the folder contains an index.html, that is what opens. If it
does not, you get a navigation page listing everything inside, with
subfolders you can expand — and any HTML, Markdown, image or PDF in there
opens in place when clicked. Nothing to download, nothing to unzip, and it
works the same on a phone.
Questions people actually ask
Does it keep the folder structure?
Yes. Subfolders stay subfolders, and the navigation page shows them as an expandable tree. Relative links between files inside the folder keep working, because the layout on the server matches the layout you dragged in.
What if I already have a zip?
Drop the zip in. It is unpacked on the server, and you get the same result as dragging the folder itself — useful when the folder is already too big to send by other means, or when the zip came from somewhere else.
How big can it be?
1 GB and 1000 files per upload. The upload is streamed rather than buffered, so a large zip does not need to fit in memory anywhere along the way.
Can the recipient download the original files?
Yes. Files that can be previewed are previewed; every file also has a download path, so nothing is trapped in a viewer.
Is this a file-sharing service?
It is closer to a tiny static web host. The point is that the link opens — that is why folders become browsable pages rather than an archive you have to unpack.