GMail Drive shell extension

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WarDemon666

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Great idea, but I doubt it will last. Gmail will soon realise the pattern of everyon having lots of .bin files in their account, and will surely do something about it.

I think it says somewhere that gmail is not to be used for file hosting or something
 

jagec

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meh, I have 222GB of storage after formatting...I don't think an extra 7 would be THAT necessary.
 
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so you need the program to add AND retrieve the files? so i cant open the files on another comp that doesnt have it installed?

<--- too lazy to rtfanything
 

WarDemon666

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Originally posted by: HardcoreRobot
so you need the program to add AND retrieve the files? so i cant open the files on another comp that doesnt have it installed?

<--- too lazy to rtfanything

you could prolly rename the bin file.
 

chiwawa626

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The idea sounded cool until I thought about it...

Why not just email yourself something that you want to store? Atleast that way you can download it anywhere without special software? Am i missing something here...
 

dighn

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Originally posted by: chiwawa626
The idea sounded cool until I thought about it...

Why not just email yourself something that you want to store? Atleast that way you can download it anywhere without special software? Am i missing something here...

well emails have a size limit. maybe this program automatically slits files up and recombines them?

i wouldn't rely on this though cuz google could mess with it
 

pulse8

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Originally posted by: chiwawa626
The idea sounded cool until I thought about it...

Why not just email yourself something that you want to store? Atleast that way you can download it anywhere without special software? Am i missing something here...

Add the drive to your send to folder and it's MUCH easier to do.
 

notfred

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Well, if you enter the wrong username/or password when you're setting it up, it gives you absolutely no way to go back and enter a new one, all you can do is get a "bad username/password" message over and over again. This was not ready to be released, even as beta software.
 

oogabooga

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Originally posted by: hevnsnt
hey bitches get out of my thread!

LOL, best response i've read in quite some time.
I am also sure that this breaches some contract with the gmail.. but that remains to be seen i guess...