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What to do with those GMail invites....

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout' started by Dave2000, Oct 18, 2004.

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  1. Dave2000

    Dave2000 Member

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

    Anybody try this yet? Will give it a shot when I get home....

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    GMail Drive shell extension

    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).
     
  2. Summer Song Giver

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    I'm using it, it worked fine the fisrt day but now I am unable to log into the "drive". It is a pretty sweet idea but I wish they would do away with the size limit you can upload.... right now I think it is ten meg.
     
  3. drapg

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    this is AWESOME!!!

    but there's a size limit for u/ls???

    that sucks.

    i'll try it right now on my work machine.
     
  4. Stack24

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    Finally something to do with it.
     
  5. m_cable

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    It does sound pretty awesome, except for that upload limit. Remove that and work out the bugs, and then we'll have something special.
     
  6. Stack24

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    Exactly...Don't want to have bugs and messing up files you send over etc.
     
  7. LegendZ3

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    You can always split your files up with winrar.
     
  8. tolne57

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    I think GMail was banning accounts for things like this. Not positive tho.
     
  9. Dave2000

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    If you want more storage, someone sent this to me today for 2 gigs of space for email, webspace, etc...

    http://www.omnilect.com/
     

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