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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