GMail Drive shell extension 1.0.12 Beta

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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.

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), and it doesn't make full use of the secure internet protocols available.

Download: GMail Drive shell extension 1.0.12 Beta freeware

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#1 ThaCrip on 21 Oct 2007 - 22:02

nice program.

i use this for online storage

it's a beta, so ill download it just in case... but for now im sticking with the older official version (v1.0.11) til this is final and not beta.

#2 nunjabusiness on 21 Oct 2007 - 22:59

This ability has been available as a Firefox Extension for quite a while - it will be interesting to try this.

#3 Xenomorph on 22 Oct 2007 - 00:43

GMail Gmail GMail Gmail gMail gmAil gmaIl gmaiL.

Why can't there be any consistency?

Google calls it "Gmail", so why would someone refer to it as something else?

#4 aclca on 22 Oct 2007 - 04:01

used

#5 spicyjoe on 22 Oct 2007 - 06:17

this has been on firefox for a very long time... but use firefox and install the extension...

secondly the website don't give me a good image of its security... yet its at beta... how if our password leaked out of it...

(1 reply) #6 mattrobs on 22 Oct 2007 - 07:36

Would the file size limit be the max size of attachments?

#6.1 darkpuma on 22 Oct 2007 - 11:47

if its the same as before then no- if you have a large file it automatically fragments it and defragments it for you

(3 replies) #7 lswinney on 22 Oct 2007 - 10:43

I'm confused as to what I would use online storage for. I can store the same number of files on my DVD re-recorder. And I have access to those files in a fraction of the time...especially files in the size of hundreds of megabits. Files that size would take me quite a long time to download from Gmail with my 768k dsl connection. Am I missing something?

#7.1 +Cy Bones on 22 Oct 2007 - 11:28

Using online storage, you could access these files on any web connected PC - no need to carry a disc with you.

#7.2 WDGC on 22 Oct 2007 - 20:25

Quote - (Cy Bones said @ #7.1)

Exactly.

#7.3 ThaCrip on 23 Oct 2007 - 02:45

well main reason to use online storage besides the "access anywhere" type thing is for potential data loss if you had a fire in your house etc... then you could still access the data online

#8 Hierophant on 22 Oct 2007 - 21:07

Hey this is pretty cool.

Example, download eps of The Office at home, put them in the Gmail drive - Go to friends house, access G drive, watch and laugh.

#9 CrazyDelta on 23 Oct 2007 - 08:12

I find Gmail Drive to be absolutely awesome and have been using it from the beginning.

However, there is one thing that I would like is for Gmail Drive to allow multiple accounts and therefore multiple drives.

Right now, I am stuck with one, and when that is full, I have to always log in and log out to the other account.

#10 Dave Hybrid on 04 Jul 2008 - 13:10

Great bit of software, the guys at Computer Juice recommended it.

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