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18 September 2012

How to create Virtual Gmail Drive on your Computer?

Introduction:-

Gmail drive is a very small program, which lets gmail users utilize their 2.50 GB gmail storage in the same way as they use their storage on their desktop computers. Virtual gmail drive literally adds a new drive on your computer under the my computer folder, where you can create new folders, store and drag and drop files, once installed it will appear as Gmail drive .
When opened for the first time you are required to provide your gmail account address and password so that program can access your account. Afterward you simply can drag and drop any files to the drive. When you add files to gmail drive it will upload files to user's gmail account. You can easily access/edit/delete these files any time by simply opening drive.
Things to Consider before creating Virtual Gmail Driver:-

There are couple of things you need to be careful of though,
  • Maximum file size is 10 MB: When you add file to gmail drive to store this file on your gmail account, program sends an email to your account with the file as an attachment. Because, Google allows only attachment of files smaller than 10 MB size. Program can not send any file bigger than 10 MB.
  • File name should not exceed the length of 65 characters.

Virtual Gmail Drive is as an extra 2.50 GB storage. However it is important to keep in mind that every time the file is dragged to the drive it will have to be uploaded to gmail first and therefore moving slightly big files may take time of an upload to complete. An ideal way would be to use these gmail drives to access documents that you need to access from somewhere else.
Since this program is devolped by the single person and not affiliated by google. It may not work as expected when google will change some technical aspect's in its Gmail service. Anyway to sum up I used it my self and it worked for me quite well.

How to USE Virtual Gmail Drive:-
  • First download Gmail Drive. To Download software for Gmail Virtual Driver Click here.
  • Unzip the file and run setup.exe.
  • You'll have to restart to complete the install.
  • After the restart, log back into your system and head to My Computer. There you'll see the Gmail Drive.
  • Double-click on Gmail Drive. Enter your Google username and password. Check auto login so you don't have to sign in each time.
  • Your Gmail Drive will be empty--just waiting for you to load your files on it.
  • Just drag and drop files into Gmail Drive. Treat it just as you would a physical drive on your system.
  • Now wait while the file uploads to your Gmail account. Once it's uploaded, you view the files in the GMail Drive.
  • When you log into your Gmail account, you'll see the files you've uploaded listed in your inbox--they will look just as if they were messages. The subject head will be GMAILFS. Filter them as you wish or put your documents into folders.