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

[pixil9]

Awesome.. thanks :)

[nivek7]

Wow, Nice!

[Qarth]

Cool

[Brandon]

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.

same here :cry:

[Le_gin]

i've been doing this for a while, just a bit different though, using a proggy called Peer2Mail

[memNOC]

same here :cry:

(N)

[Qarth]

This is exciting

[gazebee_]

im loving it :D

[IceDogg]

Looks pretty kewl. I might have to try this out somewhere down the road, just for kicks.

[Magician]

What sort of issues does it have with proxies and/or firewalls ? Is there a way to set it to use a specific proxy?

[fatgirl319]

Hey tahnks it works perfect... used a different account to use it on though

[stpark6985]

there is no privacy issue here is there, like the program sending back username and password to the author?

[Long]

How do you uninstall it O_o

EDIT: Found it, in Add/Remove

[Rahul]

Like it , now how to increase mah bandwidth to Upload 1 GB of Data !!!!!

[bush]

hope that google doesn't mind

[poyzinus]

installed and loving it!

[insanekiwi]

nice find. thanks.

[BxBoy]

Like it , now how to increase mah bandwidth to Upload 1 GB of Data !!!!!

You can't, there's always gonna be a 10 MB limit

[MaskingTape]

This is pretty cool. I hope it doesn't steal passwords cuz I used it on my main account first. :-P But then I made a new account just for this. Finally a use for my invites.

MT

[Rix]

Woah - Great :D. But it disconnects everytime you go back to My Computer :(. It still kicks ass though :) - if you can, try make a /send to: Dekstop, blah blah 'Gmail Drive' context thingy - that would kick ass :)

[sebastian_insua]

I think i'm gonna have to send 4 invites to myself too....

Is there any problem with sharing your username and password with a friend in order that you can use this rather like a private p2p.....

[sebastian_insua]

also (sorry about the double post) how about making it split files into pieces if there filesize is over 10mb....

Otherwise I guess I can just use winrar to do this for me...

[Dean W]

Very Good Idea!

[Rix]

I think i'm gonna have to send 4 invites to myself too....

Is there any problem with sharing your username and password with a friend in order that you can use this rather like a private p2p.....

I think it says somewhere in gmails TOS that you must not give out your username and password to anyone - im not sure though

[Qarth]

Yeah if we could only get past the 10mb limit it would be perfect as is.