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anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 18 Jun 2018 11:09:57 +0000

SWITCHfilesender: sending a voucher to an external user

Product

	Name
System	Windows/Mac
Application	SWITCHfilesender

Description

SWITCHfilesender allows you to send a voucher to external user, that way he can use the service as he was an UNIL user.

This voucher is valid for a single use of the service and allows the recipient to use SWITCHfilesender to send a large file to anybody (you or somebody else). Nevertheless, you remain responsible for the contents of his message and his file (see the general conditions of use).

Here is the procedure to send the voucher.

Solution

Video tutorial

Go to https://filesender.switch.ch/ and log in.
Enter the UNIL credentials.
On the new page, open the menu and choose Send a voucher.
In the new window, enter the information:
- To: recipient
- Subject: subject of the message (optional)
- Message: message (optional)
- Expiration date: voucher expiration
Click on Send the voucher.
Your recipient get an e-mail with a voucher link to SWITCHfilesender.

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anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 13:29:50 +0000

Sending a file via SWITCHfilesender

Products

	Name	Version
System	All
Application	Web Browser	Google Chrome, Firefox, Safari, etc

Description

SWITCHfilesender allows you to share a large file during a maximum of 20 days with other UNIL or external users using the Cloud of SWITCH. You can access SWITCHfileSender on the UNIL network but also on your private home network.

With SWITCHfileSender you can :

Send a large file up to 50 GB at a time (a ZIP file archive is equivalent to one file)
Send a file to a maximum of 100 e-mail recipients
Allow an external user to send a file to other people on SWITCHfilesender (single use)
Set the validity period storage on the Cloud for a file up to 20 days (every file is deleted after 20 days)

FileSender is not a storage service.

If you can’t share files more than 2 GB, please update your browser.

Sending a file

Video tutorial

Go to https://filesender.switch.ch/ and click on Connexion.

Select Université de Lausanne in the list. Enter your UNIL username and password and log in.

In the new window, enter the following informations:
1. The E-mail address of your recipient (if you want to send your file to more than one user, separate the addresses by commas or semicolons).
  Tip - Sending your file to a distribution list
  If you want to send a file to a distribution list, we recommend you to send the automatic SWITCHfilesender message to yourself by entering your personal e-mail address in this field. Then get the download link and copy/paste it in the original message you want to send to the distribution list.
2. The subject of the e-mail,
3. A description of the file,
4. The expiration date (the default value is 20 days, but you can change it).
5. Select the file you want to send (to send multiple files at the same time, save them in a zip folder first).
6. Check the terms and condition,
7. Click on Envoyer.

You will get a copy of the E-mail which will be sent to every recipient. Every time the file will be downloaded by one of your recipients, you will get a second E-mail. See below :

The recipient will get an E-mail containing the download link.

Files management

You can manage your files from SWITCHfileSender’s Web interface. Click on Menu and then on Mes fichiers. From this page, you can :
- See who has already downloaded the file.
- Send again an E-mail to somebody if the expiration date is near.
- Withdraw access to the file.
- Allow a new person to access your file.

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SWITCHfilesender: sending a voucher to an external user

Product

Description

Solution

en:technique:knowledge_base:switch:utilisation_de_switchfilesender

Sending a file via SWITCHfilesender

Products

Description

Sending a file

Files management