Release July 8, Date Added July 9, Version 1. 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. 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 is a Shell Namespace Extension that creates a virtual filesystem around your Google Gmail account, allowing you to use Gmail as a storage medium. It does allow for proxy authentication and secure HTTP, it preserves long filenames, and it can auto-login, a useful touch for those who want to regularly use their Google account for file transfers.Īlthough it’s nice to have a virtual drive option that doesn’t require using your Web browser, GMail Drive would benefit by adopting some of the features of its competition. It’s an effective tool, but lacks any additional features. There’s not much else users can do with GMail Drive. If you delete a file from the virtual drive, it deletes the associated e-mail, as well.
When you add a file, it sends an e-mail to your Gmail account with the file as an attachment.
You can drag and drop files into the drive, or use standard cutting and pasting.
This lets you treat those 5 gigs at the time of writing as a standard remote drive. In short, it creates a shell name–a space extension that creates a virtual file system around the account. GMail Drive takes the short stack of gigabytes given to Gmail users and turns them into a virtual drive accessible from your computer’s file tree.
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