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GMail Drive Shell Extension
krmpradeep writes "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. 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."
http://richard.jones.name/google-hacks/gmail-files ystem/gmail-filesystem.html
Haven't tried it yet; I keep meaning to but school keeps getting in the way.
10MB limit applies. Oh well, still very cool.
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Actually Gmail *does* have a file size limit to incoming e-mails. As one person on the GMAIL Drive Forums states:
It appears that Google has put a file size limit on "attachments". I've installed GMail Drive and tried a couple quick uploads. One was a tar.bz2 file that weighs in at 23MB. After dragging the file over to the GMail Drive window, it worked for a while then returned an error message stating that "File is too big. GMail does currently not support files larger than 10 Mb."
The response confirms:
Great point Steve. GMail does have an attachment size limit which does limit the usefulness of these file system extensions. One solution would be to handle file splitting in the tool.
I don't have a gmail account, but anyone who does should be able to easily confirm this.
No, it's not really absurd. Base-64 encoding increases file size by something like 3/2. If you do not use base-64 encoding, then your files may become corrupted in transit.