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This forum topic is for the discussion of the poll question "What do you usually use to transfer/deliver files?".
This poll was originally submitted by Oriol Vives. View the poll results »
| | | | | E-mail + WeTransfer | Jul 7, 2022 |
Usually, in exactly the same way I have received the file(s), so e-mail for most of the files and WeTransfer for large and/or heavy documents.
| | | | | | neilmac
Spain
Local time: 18:15
Spanish to English
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Mostly by email, but one of my direct (non-agency) clients also has a platform specifically for their software strings, and that's what we use for that.
And any agencies I've ever worked with have used e-mails rather than a specific online platform.
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| Nice And Simple | Jul 7, 2022 |
Book translations, always through email. But someone just contacted me within the last 15 minutes about working for them on a daily basis. If everything works out, that work will be submitted through a platform.
| | | | | Client portals | Jul 7, 2022 |
Mostly XTRF and Plunet nowadays, followed by the odd Memsource job delivered directly through the tool. My last customer to send and receive everything by email (or WeTransfer for files larger than 20 MB) has not contacted me since March.
| | | | Samuel Murray 
Netherlands
Local time: 18:15
Member (2006)
English to Afrikaans
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50% e-mail, 30% client's portal, 20% online CAT tool
[Edited at 2022-07-07 12:10 GMT]
| | | | Tom in London
United Kingdom
Local time: 17:15
Member (2008)
Italian to English
| Horse and cart | Jul 7, 2022 |
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John Silva
Brazil
Local time: 14:15
English to Portuguese
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Mostly, I deliver via email, but some clients have vendor portals, so I have to deliver it there. Not so often, I deliver via Drive when the file is big.
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| | | | Tom in London
United Kingdom
Local time: 17:15
Member (2008)
Italian to English
On the subject of email:
I'm still looking for a *reliable* email client, because the ones I've been using are not.
AppleMail (which comes as part of the MacOS) frequently fails to connect to my provider's mail servers, sometimes for days and days;
Thunderbird always connects reliably to my provider's mail servers, but it has a very nasty habit of suddenly losing emails - or entire subfolders of emails - that completely disappear and cannot be found;
Webmai... See more On the subject of email:
I'm still looking for a *reliable* email client, because the ones I've been using are not.
AppleMail (which comes as part of the MacOS) frequently fails to connect to my provider's mail servers, sometimes for days and days;
Thunderbird always connects reliably to my provider's mail servers, but it has a very nasty habit of suddenly losing emails - or entire subfolders of emails - that completely disappear and cannot be found;
Webmail (of my provider, TalkTalk) - reliable but with a very poor UI.
I'm looking for something better. Any suggestions? ▲ Collapse
| | | | Aline Amorim
Brazil
Local time: 14:15
English to Portuguese
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| Email and The agency platform | Jul 7, 2022 |
Mostly, I deliver via email, but three clients have vendor portals.
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expressisverbis
Portugal
Local time: 17:15
Member (2015)
English to Portuguese
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| A few that I use: | Jul 7, 2022 |
Email
We Transfer
YouSendIt
Send Anywhere
OneDrive
Clients' platforms
CAT Tools (e.g. Trados GroupShare)
| | | | WolfgangS
France
Local time: 18:15
Member (2007)
English to German
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| E-Mail clients | Jul 8, 2022 |
Tom in London wrote:
On the subject of email:
I'm still looking for a *reliable* email client, because the ones I've been using are not.
AppleMail (which comes as part of the MacOS) frequently fails to connect to my provider's mail servers, sometimes for days and days;
Thunderbird always connects reliably to my provider's mail servers, but it has a very nasty habit of suddenly losing emails - or entire subfolders of emails - that completely disappear and cannot be found;
Webmail (of my provider, TalkTalk) - reliable but with a very poor UI.
I'm looking for something better. Any suggestions?
On top of the mail clients you mentioned I have Postbox 2, Canary Mail (end-to-end-encrypted; nice feature is notifying that the mail you sent has been read), Outlook (requires a subscription to Office 365), Airmail (very complex, very complete, 10,99 €/year). All these are on the Mac side. Currently, I use Thunderbird 102.0.1. I cannot confirm the problems you mention.
On the Windows side I have The Bat 10.
And, to answer the question of this poll, I usually use a mail client to transfer files. I often have very heavy audio files to send, in this case I use Wetransfer or I put them in my Dropbox and send a link to the customer for download.
[Edited at 2022-07-08 06:16 GMT]
| | | | Tom in London
United Kingdom
Local time: 17:15
Member (2008)
Italian to English
Wolfgang wrote:
Currently, I use Thunderbird 102.0.1.
The latest release of Thunderbird is 91.11.0 (Mac) so I assume you must be referring to the Windows version.
[Edited at 2022-07-08 14:44 GMT]
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