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GMail Drive Shell Extension

Posted by michael on from the oh-the-horror dept.

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."

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  1. Nice, but doomed by BristolCream · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This won't last long. One of the reaosns Google and others can offer so much space is that they're confident that it won't be used.

    1. Re:Nice, but doomed by polecat_redux · · Score: 4, Insightful

      This won't last long.

      They may have tolerated the concept if it had remained within the realm of Linux, but now that the Windows floodgates are open, I suspect that they will put an end to this very quickly.

  2. I can see it now... by MajorG17 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Just wait until someone invites themself for 120 GMail addresses... then 1000... then starts SHARING terabytes of copyrighted data... eah, this may not last long.

  3. I'm amused. by Awptimus+Prime · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'm having a great time reading this thread. The same people who say things like "I would never run IE" are coming out and acting thrilled about this. What about the requirement of having IE to run this? I guess it is okay when it has something to do with Gmail. Hmmmm.

    Selective zealotry at its worse.

  4. Abusing Google? by adolfojp · · Score: 5, Insightful

    GMail is an excellent web mail service. In fact, it is the best one that I have ever used. They pay for the service and make a profit by pasting ads on their webmail site.

    If we use GMail in this fashion, not only are we abusing their trust but also dooming the service and perhaps destroying it.


    Cheers,

    Adolfo

    1. Re:Abusing Google? by Illserve · · Score: 4, Insightful

      You'll care if they start charging you for it.

  5. Re:What about the ToS? by julesh · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Google don't take full rights to your e-mail. You're thinking of hotmail.

  6. Re:For Slashdot Too! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful
    > GMail isn't a "public good", it's a marketing
    > gimmick created by a company trying to get
    > market share.

    Tell that to the tens of thousands of people who already depend on gMail as their primary email. What are they called again? Oh yes, the "public." And would you say they regard a huge free email account as something "bad" or something "good"?

    There are so many companies who do bad things right and left, and that deserve to get kicked in the teeth. Google continually offers innovative projects that vastly improve the public good; why spend energy kicking them in the teeth, too?

    On another matter, the original post about a Slashdot drive was the funniest and most insightful post I've read here in months.