STORE FILES DIRECTLY FROM YOUR COMPUTER - GMail Drive 1.0.13

GMail Drive shell extension: store files directly from my computer to your Gmail account

GMail Drive creates a virtual filesystem around your Google Mail 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 it.

The only limitation is that you can not upload a file larger than 10Mb in size but in most cases 10mb is still large enough.

 

The STEPS

Step# 1 - Download and install the GMail Drive Shell Extension. You may have to restart your system for the changes to take effect or you may not.

http://www.ziddu.com/download/7191956/gmailfs114.zip.html 

http://www.filehippo.com/download_gmail_drive/

Step# 2 - After reboot, double click “My Computer“, and check to see if ‘GMail Drive‘ shows up. If you see the drive, it means that your installation was successful. If not, please re-install the shell extension and reboot the system.

Step# 3 - To login and start uploading files to your GMail account, double click on ‘GMail Drive’ in ‘My Computer’ and login to your GMail account. [On a shared computer do not set auto-login]. You can right click and select ‘Login As’ to login as a different User.

Step# 4 - Post login, you will see an empty drive. To create a new folder, right click and select New->Folder. Double click on the folder and then either create a subfolder or just ‘Copy-Paste’ or ‘Drag & Drop’ a file into it. That’s it! You have discovered a new way of using GMail, to store your files.

  Please note that, an uploaded file/folder has a prefix of GMAILFS when you see them in GMail. I recommend that you create a label called ‘MyFiles’ and label all such emails [uploaded files in fact] so that you do not confuse them with other emails.
To check the current usage of your GMail drive, right click on the driver letter and select properties.