GMail Drive is a Shell Namespace Extension that creates a virtual filesystem around your GMail account, allowing you to use GMail ACCOUNT as a storage medium. GMail Drive literally adds a new drive to your computer under the My Computer folder. With GMail Drive you can easily copy files to your GMail account and retrieve them again.
In order for GMail Drive to operate, the computer must be connected to the Internet. Gmail Drive creates a virtual filesystem on top of your GMail account and enables you to save and retrieve files stored on your GMail account directly from inside Windows Explorer. 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.
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. 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. Also, multiple computers can connect to one Gmail account thus allowing GMail Drive to act as a multi-user file server.
Consequently, restrictions on the Gmail service are also enforced when using GMail Drive. For example, files larger than 25 MB cannot be uploaded, as the maximum file size of Gmail attachments is 25 MB.
GMail Drive is an experimental package that depends on but is not provided by Google.
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