Use Gmail as an Online Drive with Gmail Drive

Yesterday, I wrote about Gspace Firefox Extension for using Gmail as storage medium. In response to that post, Sindhu shows us a similar tool called Gmail Drive which acts virtual filesystem over your Gmail account and enables you to store or retrieve files directly through your Windows Explorer. Gmail Drive literally adds a new drive under My Computer. You must login into Gmail before using that drive. Once logged in, you can create new folder, drag and drop files, just like a physical drive.

What it actually does is, whenever you create a new file or copy a new file, it generates an email with the file as an attachment and posts it to your account. This file is visible as an email in your inbox. If you post too many files, your inbox might be cluttered, so you may create a filter in Gmail to automatically move your file to the archives if the subject contains GMAILFS.

Gmail Drive is a great tool for all Gmail lovers, but the tool might be suspended if Google decided to block it. If everybody starts using Gmail Drive, then Google will run out of storage space.

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This post was published by on March 21, 2007

About the Author: Thilak Rao works as a Social Media Expert. He is one of the first professional bloggers from India, and he loves to write, travel and click photos. Follow him on Twitter @thilak

  • http://www.hongkiat.com/blog hongkiat

    Awesome! One question, will Google be cool about this? As we are now using Gmail for pure storage instead of emails.

  • http://tech-buzz.net Thilak

    hongkiat: I guess Google is not cool with this tool

  • http://www.lytebyte.com Mr.Byte

    But Google is aware of this and as long as they don’t object, i guess they are cool with this…I read about this couple of months back in Digit Magazine

  • http://www.techmixer.com km

    Cool… How much the storage that Gmail Storage stored

  • http://tecmantra.net Vikram

    It is very slow even with a 2mbps connection

    It kust Sucks !!

  • http://www.lytebyte.com Mr.Byte

    Hey Thilak, I just noticed… that you are using HP Pavilion System….I too have a HP Pavilion t730i model (its more than 2 years old)…but what I dont like about their system is, having one big partition as C drive for all the contents and another 5GB drive for recovery…if your windows get corrupt then your whole C drive fails…So try to partition into a separate drive for windows and the rest for your contents.

  • http://tech-buzz.net Thilak

    Mr.Byte: That’s true. My model is DV6137TX, Actually, I have a different partition for Linux. 20GB Backup out of my 120GB Drive :(

    BTW, T730i is a desktop or a laptop?

  • http://www.lytebyte.com Mr.Byte

    T730i is desktop and DV series is Laptop I guess… As I recently installed Vista, I partitioned it according to my need using Vista partition utility.

  • http://www.vijaym.net Vijay

    I am sure google will not be as happy as the users here though. They provide storage space for emails and probably they know what people are upto. Wonder what they are waiting for to shut it down?

  • http://www.vijaym.net Vijay

    Of course, the speed will be real bad with Indian Internet connections, 256 Kbps not really adding much to the speed, in my case

  • http://tech-buzz.net Thilak

    Mr.Byte: Yeah, DV series are laptops.

    Vijay: Yup! If I were Google, I’ll shut it down ASAP. But, until they don’t, we will continue to exploit it

  • http://www.spotgeek.com/geekbytes/ knight17

    I have used this.But on my dialup it takes very high amount of time.I prefer divshare these days

  • http://lagopi.blogspot.com/2006/11/how-to-use-gmail-space-as-hard-disk.html Technopark

    How to use Gmail space as Hard Disk Space…

    As we all know, Gmail offers free 2+ GB space (and its still growing) for its users. This free offering of this huge online space has tempted many to use it as their Online Data Storage Disk. There are many tools available to accomplish it. Lets us a…..

  • krish

    I want to copy my mail on gmail drive.. is it possible?

  • http://www.lytebyte.com/ Mr.Byte

    But Google is aware of this and as long as they don't object, i guess they are cool with this…I read about this couple of months back in Digit Magazine

  • sangram

    google needs to provide google drive with gmail accounts online as our in.com providing the same

  • Naeem

    upload is very slow please make it faster
    thanks
    Naeem

  • Naeem

    upload is very slow please make it faster
    thanks
    Naeem