[THIN] Re: Fwd: FW: GMail Drive shell extension
- From: Greg Reese <gareese@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 08:43:27 -0400
nice!
On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 13:39:31 +0100, Joshua Owen
<joshua.owen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> FYI, seen as how so many of you have gmail accounts, thought this might
> be of interest.
>
> 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) 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.
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