Service: Gmail Drive
Launched: v. 1.0.6 was released on July 27, 2005
What is it?
Gmail drive is a service that creates a virtual hard drive folder on your Windows system, accessible through “My Computer”, that allows you to store files in your Gmail email account. The current Gmail storage limitation is 2 gigs.
In their own words, “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.
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.”
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The service works as promised. After a quick download and installation, it installs a virtual gmail hard drive on your system, accessible through “My Computer”. You can then drag and drop files into the drive.
I tested out dragging and dropping files, and it worked well (if understandably a little slow - a 1.5 mb file took about 20 seconds to fully copy over.
Individual files cannot be bigger than 10 mb or have file names longer than 40 characters (gmail limitations).
We’ll also be profiling xmail hard drive, a similar service that is web-based, and so platform independent.
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i like it
sir plz tell
What is the proseure that i am use gmail as external hdd
Have been using it for about 5 minutes and have found three uses already.
Problem: you cant save a file on it, other than that it works fine
We should not use Gmail Name and password to any unknown site and Well I love to share Gmail Files Uploaded with GmailDrive with Rahat Ayub PGD ( PhpGmailDrive).its downloadable from http://pgd.sourceforge.net
Instead of using Gmail name and password to thirdparty we can use PGD(phpGmailDrive) by Rahat Ayub
Quick question for all you..
If i have a website and i want to add a music file, I need that mp3 URL correct? Now, can I use the URL from my gdrive account if i save my mp3 there? Thanks in advance.
-O
Ok so is anyone else having problems with the Gmail drive or just me?
All said and praised, the gmail drive is not without its flaws. In fact some major bugs.
Our IT guys noticed this when accidently one user logged in to a gmail account forget to log out and another one logged in. Gmail supports multiple logins/ instances and it so happened that files uploded by user2 dropped into that of user1’s account and got mailed to user2.
Serious implications for a confidential services company.
Archie H.
http://www.myinternetshoppee.com
For those that are looking programs for using email account as online storage, check out Vombato Mail Drive which now has GMail and Yahoo support.
It also allows you to use any of your POP3 account the same way.
http://www.vombato.com/
I’d love to get this working in Linux as well. Then I’d have an easy way to transfer files between Ubuntu and XP running in a virtual machine.
I’d love to get this working in Linux as well. Then I’d have an easy way to transfer files between Ubuntu and XP running in a virtual machine.
Brilliant piece of kit - seems to be a little temperamental when it comes to saving .PNG files in my experience. Don’t know what that’s all about.
Karaoke Kev
http://youtubekaraoke.blogspot.com
http://www.xdrive.com (by AOL) is offering 5 GB of free space. No limits on individual file sizes!!