Google increased the storage limit for Gmail users just recently who have now roughly four Gigabytes at their disposal with the option to add even more storage that can be purchased in the account settings. The maximum amount is currently 400 Gigabytes of storage which would cost $500 per year.
Most users will probably be happy with the four Gigabytes and can use a small software called GMail Drive to add the Gmail storage as a drive in Windows. To do that the user needs to install GMail Drive and enter his login details when clicking on the new drive letter. I suggest to save this information unless you want to enter the username and password everytime you want to access the drive.
I mainly use it to backup important data, not as my primary backup location but a secondary one. All files that are stored on the drive are accessible on the Gmail website as well which means it is also possible to store files that you work with on different computers.
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Do you really need extra software for that?
AFAIK, GMail storage is just a WebDAV drive, so it could be mounted as a network drive.
If necessary, this network drive could also be mapped to a drive letter then.
Ace I think it is the easier solution for many users. Just install the software, enter your login details and you are ready to go.
Will this tool let you store exe files on Gmail?
Dante yes I was able to upload exe files as well
Cool. I have been using Yahoo Mail as my offsite storage medium. So that I may access all those rinky dink programs that you need when installing a new PC or just to run diagnostics or hacks. I’m assuming I don’t have a file size limit (ie. 10meg email size) with this program besides the 4 gig that Gmail offers.
Dante the file size limit of 20 Megabytes is unfortunately still in place.
Ah well. If it weren’t for DVD-R’s, I might be annoyed enough to actually spend time to write a program that uses zip or rar to span a file on Gmail, automatically. Here’s hoping someone IS annoyed enough.
I keep getting error messages telling me the ‘disk is full’
It is not. Any suggestions for fixing this error?
thankZ
I have the same issue. When I try to copy something on gmail drive it says “Cannot complete operation. The disk is full …. “. I have installed v 1.0.16. I’ve tried it with Win 7 and XP.
parabens
Just install GmailDrive 1.0.17 and be sure that you have Gmail Buzz turned off in your google account. It works fine with Win7 x64 and even with files larger than 10MB :)