Gmail storage
GMail Drive 1.05
Publisher: viksoe.dk
Date: January 21, 2005
OS Support: Windows (all)
License: Freeware
File Size: 126 KB
Creates a virtual filesystem around your Google GMail account, allowing you to use GMail as a storage medium.
GMail Drive is a Shell Namespace Extension that creates a virtual filesystem around your Google GMail account, allowing you to use GMail as a storage medium.
GMail Drive creates a virtual filesystem on top of your Google GMail account and enables you to save and retrieve files stored on your GMail account directly from inside Windows Explorer. GMail Drive literally adds a new drive to your computer under the My Computer folder, where you can create new folders, copy and drag’n'drop files to.
Ever since Google started to offer users a GMail e-mail account, which includes storage space of a 1000 megabytes, you have had plenty of storage space but not a lot to fill it up with. With GMail Drive you can easily copy files to your GMail account and retrieve them again.
When you create a new file using GMail Drive, it generates an e-mail and posts it to your account. The e-mail appears in your normal Inbox folder, and the file is attached as an e-mail attachment. GMail Drive periodically checks your mail account (using the GMail search function) to see if new files have arrived and to rebuild the directory structures. But basically GMail Drive acts as any other hard-drive installed on your computer.
You can copy files to and from the GMail Drive folder simply by using drag’n'drop like you’re used to with the normal Explorer folders.
Because the GMail files will clutter up your Inbox folder, you may wish to create a filter in GMail to automatically move the files (prefixed with the GMAILFS letters in the subject) to your archived mail folder.
Please note that GMail Drive is still an experimental tool. There’s still a number of limitations of the file-system (such as total filename size must be less than 40 characters). Since the tool hooks up with the free GMail Service provided by Google, changes in the GMail system may break the tools ability to function. I cannot guarantee that files stored in this manner will be accessible in the future.
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July 11th, 2005 at 10:52 am
The risks associated with this are just too much for me:
a) violate my Gmail ToS and get booted
b) lose my data because they change their (undocumented) API
Also, since I’m paying all this money for web hosting, I figure I can just use that.
July 11th, 2005 at 8:33 pm
I thought it was cool but I’d never use it since I have three hard drives with capacities of 200, 80, and 250 gb respectively. Was going to buy another matching 250 gig sata drive today but decided to get a 16x dual layer plextor DVD writer instead.
July 12th, 2005 at 2:04 pm
Ah, the good life. I wonder what it’s like… =-P
July 12th, 2005 at 8:00 pm
I’m still wondering. Took the case off and put the new drive in. Now the computer won’t start up. I took the drive out and returned everything back to the way it was. Still no go. So tomorrow I’m going to have to reseat the RAM and check all the cable connections. Argh! Sometimes it’s tough being me.
July 14th, 2005 at 2:40 pm
I see you and Jemal both have something in common, I learned long ago that if I want my computer to work I won’t let Jemal add new stuff to it, that just breaks it.
July 14th, 2005 at 8:03 pm
He was always breaking my computer when he was at home. It prvided good cover for when I broke it myself. :B)