Large email attachments can still take a long time to upload, even using Gmail and Google Drive.

Want to access-or even edit-your sent attachments after the fact? If you uploaded the files directly from Gmail, you’ll find them sitting in your Google Drive, in the top “My Drive” directory.

After you’ve made your choice from the pull-down menu, go ahead and click the “Share & send” button.

Once you’re finished composing your email, click “Send”-and when you do, you’ll see a warning that reads “These Drive files aren’t shared with the recipient.” Don’t worry, you can still send the attachment you can, however, choose whether the recipient can edit the file, comment on it, or merely view and/or download it.

When you’re finished adding files, click the “Upload” button.

From here, you can either click the “My Drive” link to access files you’ve already uploaded to Google Drive, or drag new files into the (aptly named) “Drag files here” area.

Click that icon, and an “Insert files using Google Drive” window will open. Hover over the “+” with your mouse, and a series of new buttons will appear, including the triangular Google Drive icon.

At the bottom of the “New Message” window, you’ll see a paperclip icon to the right of the blue “Send” button-and next to that, you should see a “+” sign.

If a blank email window appears in the bottom-right corner of the screen when you click “Compose,” you’re good to go otherwise, click the “Try out the new compose experience” link near the top of the page.

Next, you’ll need to make sure you’ve enabled Gmail’s new, spruced-up “Compose” window.

Open your Gmail account and click the “Compose” button in the left-hand column.

Ready to give it a try? Let’s get started…

You can access your Google Drive account from Gmail in just a few clicks.

Gmail taking a long time to send email