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GMail Drive creates a virtual filesystem around your
Google Mail 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 it.
Ever since Google started to offer users a Gmail
e-mail account, which includes storage space of 6000
megabytes, you have had plenty of storage space but
not a lot to fill it up with. With GMail Drive you can
easily copy files to your Google Mail Account and
retrieve them again.
When you create a new file using GMail Drive, it
generates an e-mail and posts it to your account. The
e-mail appears in your normal Inbox folder, and the
file is attached as an e-mail attachment. GMail Drive
periodically checks your mail account (using the Gmail
search function) to see if new files have arrived and
to rebuild the directory structures. But basically
GMail Drive acts as any other hard-drive installed on
your computer.
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