Saving a file to Google Drive by emailing it

[radhak]

At work I can't access Google Drive or even Gmail itself (or Dropbox or Skydrive or - you get the idea). So if I want to save a file to the cloud for later retrieval or to share with others, I have to email myself (using my work email) and everybody, or jump thru other hoops.

So I chanced upon this procedure, that seems to work :

a. Set up the 'Gmail Drive Backup' script as provided by this author : https://sitesdot.google.com/site/fileurltodrive/gmail-drive-backup
b. Now I set up a filter within my Gmail account to label any incoming email that has 'GDrive' in the subject as 'Backup to Drive'.
c. Since the script set up in (a) looks for this specific label and saves the file to the Drive, I'm all set : I can email any file to my gmail account, insert the phrase 'GDrive' in the subject, and the file ends up saved to my Google Drive automatically.

Whaddya think?

Anybody have a better way to do this?

 

[Nothinman]

Contact your work's IT department and get a proper setup for accessing files remotely and sharing them with your other coworkers instead of working around the limitations or policies already in place?

That and the URL for your script is broken.

 

[radhak]

Thanks - tried fixing the link, but the forum software seems to star-out anything to do with sitesdotgoogledotcom; so I had to break it up

As for company policy, this is a 75000 strong company whose policies are sometimes self-debilitating - stops us from being efficient in the name of 'security'. Even our USB and CD drives are blocked from writing data! I don't expect any of that to change.