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 2000 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.
Download: GMail Drive shell extension 1.0.11 freeware
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Download: GMail Drive shell extension 1.0.11 freeware Link: Home Page
NOTE: if you have big files i recommend using something like .7z or .rar to split the files into 9MB files (9000000bytes) (since theres a 10MB file size limit) .... then i recommend (before uploading) you make a .sfv file then upload the files then after it's complete redownload the files and run the .sfv check on them to make sure everythings good.
this will help avoid corruption issues that might happen.
/flame on
/flame on
the "point" to this is is so u can upload files to gmail for backup basically... thats the whole point of it.
reason u gotta .rar it etc is cause gmail has file size limits (i think 10MB limit, so i usually do 9MB per file to be safe)... so if u got a 300MB file u want to upload u have to do it the way i explained basically.... so basically if u had a 300MB file you would have about 33-34 separate .rar (or .7z which is what i use) to upload to gmail using this program.
the stuff about the .sfv u dont have to do although i recommend it to make sure the files u uploaded are working 100percent.
Last edited by ThaCrip on 17 Mar 2007 - 04:30
so would i. but this is more or less for emergency use case your house burns down and stuff like that.... atleast thats what i use it for.... plus it can be accessed from anywhere.
NOTE: if you have big files i recommend using something like .7z or .rar to split the files into 9MB files (9000000bytes) (since theres a 10MB file size limit) .... then i recommend (before uploading) you make a .sfv file then upload the files then after it's complete redownload the files and run the .sfv check on them to make sure everythings good.
this will help avoid corruption issues that might happen.
Is this the same app formerly known as GMailFS? I used it for a while when I was on Windows, decent app though pretty slow transferring, as you'd expect.
You can chunk your RAR files at 10,000kb BTW, that's what I did. And as for the .sfv file, doesn't that just tell you if the file is corrupted or not? All very well, but more helpful to make a recovery record when making the archives, then if they are corrupted, you can hopefully recover them.
(I never had to use this, mind you -- how reliable is it?)
Another option is making PAR files for recovery; any Usenet heads ought to know what these are, but basically it's like RAID5 for files. There used to be an app called SmartPAR for creating them.
A good Linux implementation of this would be cool ... there was one, but last time I looked it was pretty stagnant.
/flame on
the "point" to this is is so u can upload files to gmail for backup basically... thats the whole point of it.
Don't talk such utter nonsense.
The whole point that this was created for was to be a roaming USB stick effectively. Stick a few files that you might want access to at some point, on there to be accessed remotely. Most firewalls/company policies do not allow specific UDP/TCP or ranges for personal remote administration of home computers. However if you have access to the net, you're golden for this.
I personally have this installed, but do not use it. The reason being, most of my files are quite large, which requires me using a USB stick or other media. I can see a use however
did anyone try it out yet? and does google allow this?
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