Sharing Files
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Sending: Drag and Drop Onto a Contact Name
You can send one or more files to a contact by dragging and dropping them onto the contact’s name on your Messenger List.
Tip: You can’t share files while conversing with Windows Live™ Messenger contacts; the feature isn’t supported.
Here’s How
Locate the file you want to send on your computer, and then drag and drop it onto the name of the contact to whom you want to send it in your Messenger List.
Yahoo! Messenger opens an IM window for a conversation (if one isn’t already open) with the selected contact, and a message informs you that you’re waiting for your contact to accept the file.
Tip: If you use profiles, Messenger uses whichever profile you last used with that contact on the current computer. If you haven’t had an IM conversation with that contact before, Messenger uses your primary profile.
When your contact accepts the file, you see a progress bar as the file uploads to your contact’s computer. Then you see a confirmation that the file has been sent.
If your contact doesn’t accept the file, you receive a declined message.
What’s Next
You can also receive files that others send you using Yahoo! Messenger.
Words to Know
- Contact: a person with whom you interact; someone to whom you might want to send an email or instant message.
- Conversation: an exchange of instant messages between you and a contact.
- IM: the acronym for instant message.
- Messenger List: a list of coworkers, friends, family, and associates who also use Messenger.
- Profile: a public web page provided with a Yahoo! ID that lets others learn something about the person associated with the ID, such as hobbies and favorite links. You and each of your contacts have a profile that others can view. You can have more than one profile and choose which profile others see.
- Windows Live™ Messenger: Microsoft® Windows’ free instant messaging application.