GMail Drive shell extension - *New GMailFS*

[JorgeIvan]

GMail Drive shell extension 1.0.2 UPDATED

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

Installation Guide

* Extract the ZIP file to a temporary folder.

* Run the Setup application.

Download

Edited October 18, 2004 by jorgeivan2k3

[levijay]

nice they ported it to windows

[Lexcyn]

This is pretty sweet :D *downloads*

[Colin-uk Veteran]

Wow Good stuff :D

[Pink Floyd Veteran]

whooa cool

[pmh]

sweetness! Oh the joy of uploading some of my AAC's

[semifamous]

Chances are probably fifty/fifty that Google will delete accounts of people using this. It might be a violation of their TOS...

[Tiburon]

works great, i used one of my extra invites to make a seperate account for this.

[pmh]

^same

[QuarterSwede]

Wow, I wish I had an invitation left because I would create another account myself just for this.

Also, I don't see how this would violate Google's TOS because it doesn't circumvent anything. All it does is email the files you want stored as attachments which you could do yourself (manually), it would just take longer. The only thing that I could see being a violation is if this allows file's larger than 10MB (Google's current limit).

Edited October 5, 2004 by Jstphish

[evilmunky]

i might give it a try :)

[gringo]

awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!! thanks :woot:

[kaptain chump]

wow thats neat. carefull though!

[betadan]

now if only it worked for Windows XP x64 :(

[Techy_]

wow, glad to see they ported it to windows

[QuarterSwede]

Well, I don't see anything in Google's Terms of Service or Google's Program Policies about not being able to do this.

[karma_police]

I cant upload more than 100K because an error window appears.

[Aaron Veteran]

I msityped my password and it errored out. I did not check auotlogin. Now every time I double click on teh drive it won't prompt me for info and tries to login still with the incorrect info. How do I remove this thing?

EDIT: I uninstalled and reinstalled and it still tries to log in with out prompting for info.

[Ultra Frosty]

Oooh! Im gonna try to port this to my iPod running Linux. That way, I could get a small external WiFi card with a firewire port and then run in thru a program I would have to write in linux. Then I can use the iPod storage for my PC, and just store music on my Gmail account.

[Corona]

is there any mac osx version of it ?

[Ultra Frosty]

How come all the attachments come out as .bin files? I sent a .txt test message and it is named: part01.bin

[jack_canada]

does the 10mb attachment limit of gmail apply to this?

[Ultra Frosty]

does the 10mb attachment limit of gmail apply to this?

Yes, you are limited to 10MB filesize limits. All this does it take the file(s) you drag and drop or save and send an email attachment with the subject:

GMAILFS: /<filehere>

[QuarterSwede]

Seems to work just fine for me. Although, I couldn't get it to store a simple blank text message. Not that that matters because it saved a zip file just fine. Thanks for posting this.

[gazebee_]

works great for me, nice refreshing idea :D

[memNOC]

Oooh! Im gonna try to port this to my iPod running Linux. That way, I could get a small external WiFi card with a firewire port and then run in thru a program I would have to write in linux. Then I can use the iPod storage for my PC, and just store music on my Gmail account.