Why downloading files from gmail takes long

I guess its gmail problem then. Its troublesome to use different account for attachments! This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

Trouble: I use Gmail a lot and send email attachment via mails at times. In this article we will tell you a trick with which you can avoid this confusion. I can live with the first sync being "slow" as I know it has to sync 11GB or 3GB or whatever is in the mailbox.

I fully expect that. And I tell my clients that if they need to send mail and fetch new mail, to close Outlook, wait a few seconds for it to close in the background and then launch it again. Then Outlook will first send mail in the Outbox, check for new mail and then get back to the sync process.

Once everything has synched, then this is not necessary. As far as using webmail, I would have to disagree. There are MANY reasons for using a local email program: having mailto: links work without having to do special setup, being able to have all the mail on the computer and scroll through it really fast without having to wait for page loads from a webpage, being able to use adding like label printing programs if that's needed, bing able to mail merge contacts, having Mail, Contacts, Calendars and Notes in one nice uniform program, etc.

While I agree that webmail is going to the source and I always check the webmail interface when making sure credentials are correct, etc.

And if you advocate webmail, what do you do on a smartphone? Do you use webmail or do you use the built-in mail program go Google Mail, etc? I could not stand to use webmail on a smartphone due to the size of the screen and the constant refresh of data and the need for a continuous data connection. MSouthworth I've heard back from my client and he said it's "lightning fast" so I think that was the trick.

In reality, it's not a lot of settings. Select the Use the custom behavior defined below. To continue this discussion, please ask a new question. Spiceworks Help Desk. The help desk software for IT. Track users' IT needs, easily, and with only the features you need. Learn More ». Get answers from your peers along with millions of IT pros who visit Spiceworks. Ironically iOS devices seem to work fine synching with the account.

Thanks in advance. Best Answer. I have an iMac software I have notice that in the last 7 days or so, emails from the gmail addresses and any attachments are taking a long time to "arrive" and also download the attachments. Posted on Nov 14, AM. Feb 2, PM in response to Sean. Gum In response to Sean. Exact same issue. Ever since I moved to Are you trying to intentionally slow down Google? Is this another iPhone slowing down issue? This is a completely unacceptable. Feb 2, PM. I've been having the very same issue, viz.

When it does so, the messages populate the window almost instantly, as before, and all other features of the app continue to work normally as before all this began. Quitting and immediately re-opening the Mail app yields the very same behavior, except that the delay appears to be a bit shorter than the day's initial opening. Initially, I thought this may result of processing of Rules I had set up in Mail's Preferences, but disabling all of the Rules has had no perceptible effect on this problem.

Nor does this improve if I disable all Junk Mail filtering. Moreover, if I were to log into my Gmail account via Safari, the Inbox messages continue to display almost instantly, whereas if I were to open the Mail app at this time Safari still open to my Gmail page , it still takes anywhere from 10 - 20 seconds to display the information.. Prior to this strange and unwelcome behavior of Apple's Mail app, I hadn't made any changes to my Apple Mail Settings, nor to my Google Account's Mail Settings, nor to my router settings Airport Extreme or cable modem.

Nor am I experiencing any other perceptible slowdown in Web traffic, including the sending and receiving of messages once Mail is open and running. This has been a vexing problem to try to resolve. Dec 9, AM. Page content loaded. Thank you for using the Apple Support Communities!

I understand you are experiencing a concern with your Gmail email account on your Mac and iOS devices. I'd like to help. Have you isolated this behavior to your Gmail account only? Create a new label in gmail ex: Downloads. Labels mails that you want to download with new label Downloads in my case.

Then remove all option except Gmail and choose only label Downloads. Next, next to final steps. Finally, extract. Alex The Asker is trying to send a zip file, not download one that was sent to them. Works great! I had a tar.

I wanted to review what I had sen but GMail blocked me from downloading a tar. Thank you! Add a comment. The recipient then merely changes the file name back to. Hal Hal 21 2 2 bronze badges. Perhaps you can add a refence to your question, with the not allowed extensions? Or Google Drive. Or Box. Or Copy. Or any of a thousand file sharing services. I happen to use dropbox and it's been pretty good. Pacerier yes you can do that. And you will have defeated Google's filtering rules, but you have to change the file name.

Google will eventually read the file contents and filter on that to. All well and good, but google drive is the suitable platform for file storage. Have to agree with Google, in that email is not meant to be a file storage system.

But if they wanted to stop that, they would have done that already Here's my quick and dirty solution: Before sending the file, open and read it as hexadecimal, then save it with UTF-8 encoding