Use Google Mail to store data
Platform : Windows 2000, Windows XP
Type: freeware
Manufacturer: viksoe.dk
Size: 153KB
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This is the software publisher's description.
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.
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 are still a
number of limitations of the file-system (such as total filename size must be
less than 65 characters). Since the tool hooks up with the free Gmail Service
provided by Google, changes in the Gmail system may break the tool's ability to
function.