Posted by: ne0 February 1, 2009
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Few people had asked me offline how to do this so here's how to use the extra space you have in your gmail as a hard drive space.
When you register your gmail you may have 2 GB to begin with but this limit keeps on increasing as time goes by. currently I personally have a 7.29 GB limit set on my account. Your emails don't normally take more than few hundred MB's of disk space so you end up having quite a handful of virtual disc space that you can utilize.
When you register your gmail you may have 2 GB to begin with but this limit keeps on increasing as time goes by. currently I personally have a 7.29 GB limit set on my account. Your emails don't normally take more than few hundred MB's of disk space so you end up having quite a handful of virtual disc space that you can utilize.
- Go to http://www.softpedia.com/progDownload/GMail-Drive-shell-extension-Download-15944.html and download the GMail Drive shell extension
- This is a zip file, extract the files in the zip file using 7zip(http://www.7-zip.org/download.html) or WinZip (http://winzip.com). Most likely you already have a zip application which will open when you open the downloaded Gmail drive shell extention installer.
- Double click on the setup.exe file from the list of files you have extracted and continue the installation.
- Once the installation is finished, if you go to My Computer in your windows explorer you will see a drive called GMail drive.Double click on it and it will ask you for gmail login and password which you can enter. If noone else uses the computer besides you, you sould check the save password option so that you don't have to enter it every time.
- Now you can copy paste from other directories to this and vice versa at will.