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Drop whole folders in and send them as-is

Uploading a folder through WeTransfer is exactly what it sounds like: drag it onto the homepage and the upload begins straight away. The folder structure your recipients receive will be identical to what you sent, every subfolder and file in its original place.

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Uploading made effortless

When you need to hand off a full project folder, WeTransfer handles it in one drag from your desktop to the browser. Drop it onto the homepage and uploading starts immediately, no file picker menus or extra steps before you can add recipients or grab a shareable link. Folder structure is preserved exactly as-is, so collaborators, clients, or anyone else on the receiving end opens the same hierarchy you built, with every file exactly where it should be. Nothing is re-encoded, resampled, or touched in any way during the process, which matters when your folder holds design files, raw footage, audio sessions, or anything else that needs to arrive bit-for-bit identical. Recipients can preview supported formats directly in the browser before downloading, so they can confirm the right version landed before saving anything to their machine.

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Our features are designed to minimize how much of your data we — or anyone else — can access, so you can keep what's yours, yours.

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Share content with a unique link, give anyone a free pass to send you 200 GB files, and stay in control of transfers — even after you hit send.

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From password protection to file encryption, WeTransfer has all the built-in security features you need to safeguard your work.

FAQs

All your questions answered.


You can upload whole folders directly, no zipping required. Drag the folder from your desktop onto the WeTransfer homepage and it uploads as-is, with the original subfolder structure intact on the recipient's end.


Yes. WeTransfer keeps your directory structure intact from upload to download, so nested subfolders arrive exactly as you organized them. Recipients download the folder with every file in its original location, which saves time when handing off projects with complex hierarchies.


No. Every file in your folder is transferred in its original quality, with no re-encoding, resampling, or modification of any kind. A folder containing raw images, uncompressed audio, or high-resolution video arrives on the other end exactly as it left your machine.


No account is needed to download. Recipients click the link or the download button in the notification email and the files are theirs, whether you sent the folder to specific people by email or shared a general download link.


With a free account you can send an email transfer to up to 10 recipients at once, and link transfers have no recipient limit at all since anyone with the link can download. Paid plans raise the email recipient cap to 50. If you need to share with a larger group, creating a link transfer and distributing it yourself is the simplest approach.


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