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."

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slightly OT...

[mp3phish]

Can someone tell me how to get information on signing up for the beta? I went to www.gmail.com and it has a place to login but I don't see a link to signup. Am I missing something?

thanks in advance.

I posted this two days ago, and it got rejected!

[AllNicksWereTaken]

I know this is off-topic, but what the FUCK!?...

I submitted this story 2 days ago, and it got rejected.

Why Slashdot, why!?!?

what an easy installation!

[perler]

when gmailfs was released, i tried to install it, but abandoned it after it didn't work out of the tar. my python was not up to date, my old red hat box had some library missing and gmailfs was not thar important to me to waste an hour just to install that thing.

the gmail drive shell extension was installed in 10 seconds. it may be not quite a fair example, but the ease of installation was clearly on the windows side this time.

problem in the linux worlds seems to me not the lack of packaging systems, not even that there are more than one - problem is that there is no easy way to actual package your software or, more often, that the developer just doesn't care. this is just not necessary..

PAT