Might be old *shrug*

http://www.viksoe.dk/code/gmail.htm

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 in the subject) 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). Since the tool hooks up with the free GMail Service provided by Google, changes in the GMail system may break the tools ability to function. I cannot guarantee that files stored in this manner will be accessible in the future.

I cannot guarantee that files stored in this manner will be accessible in the future.

ROFL.

sounds like they stole that line from pretty much any bank or public service dept !!!

its horribly slow and doesnt work very well
i woudltn bother

you can break it now if you like just download the tool and use it but keep telling gmail that it is spam and it will eventualy be filterd out in everyones account

IF it were faster I'd be tempted to use my 50 invites on myself and just call them "driveH@gmail.com", "driveI@gmail.com" and so on and so forth.

speaking of gmail, 6 char min on usernames is gay

this is like what x drive used to have years ago. I remember we all had an xdrive account at tafe and would stick lesson notes and stuff on the xdrive at tafe, then grab them at home. It sticks a drive letter in "my computer" and acts like another hard drive. Unfortunately, you now have to pay for xdrive (as far as I know). Let's hope gmail don't make you have to pay in the future.

It's fine if your data isn't private in any way, seeing as Google keeps all of your data (even after you 'delete' it) .. with possible usage in the future.


last edited by parabol at 20:21:32 24/Feb/05

u cant put in a file any bigger than 3 meg. and yes this is very very very old.
its horribly slow. alot quicker if i use a free asp webby. alot quicker. does the same job.

gmail is cool, mainly cause i got ineffable@ rather than ineffable__@ or something gay like that.