Sidebar Sidebar
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.

Mount Gmail box

Saw this earlier today. I hope someone here with more Linux experience than I can give us some pointers on getting this running on OS X. I think that as long as those tools are available (FUSE, gmaillib) then it should be pretty much as described on the website. The idea is very slick.
 
i just saw this as well, very interesting. :)

well if someone finds out how to get this working in OS X, do let us know.

BTW, i'd try something except i'm away from my PB ATM.
 
i doubt it's as simple as trying to run it on mac. filesystems have to interact with the kernal a great deal and the monolithic linux kernel is completely different than the mach microkernel. i'm guessing it will be awhile before this is available...

but, does anyone know of a mail.app plugin for gmail? i just got an account, but i don't really care about the archiving. i just want the space.
 
here's some info:
unfortunately FUSE has AFAIK not (yet) been ported to OSX/Darwin. Therefore GmailFS won't run.
FUSE provides a means for userland applications (as opposed to kernel extensions/drivers) to be used as filesystem drivers.
Perhaps someone will write a kext that allows FUSE on OSX, but I think it would be easier to modify the Python code to provide a webDAV server instead of a FUSE filesystem, and then tell the Finder to mount the webdav. However, AFAIK, this has also not (yet) been done.
Click to expand...

so - i think that clearly explains what has to be done to get this working on OS X? so anyone keen to get GMailFS working on OS X? ;) :D
 
Bear said:
Why?

Why bother?

Do you trust the privacy of data stored at GMail?

Why? Why? Why?
Click to expand...

Privacy concerns me not. If I want private portable data storage, I'll use my keychain drive, but it's still nice to be able to have a large online storage of a fast server. Especially because you could technically put a website there, and just give the end user a free password, or store files there to transfer to friends.

If mounting the filesystem would get rid of the 10MB limit, then it could be really handy for transferring very large file to friends.
 
stoid said:
Privacy concerns me not. If I want private portable data storage, I'll use my keychain drive, but it's still nice to be able to have a large online storage of a fast server. Especially because you could technically put a website there, and just give the end user a free password, or store files there to transfer to friends.
Click to expand...

I agree. Most of the stuff I put there I wouldn't care about. But to transfer a large file or something to a friend, or even just to have.

Daveway said:
Doesn't GMail have bandwidth limits?
Click to expand...

Lets find out! :D
 
I posted my own gmail backup script to macosxhints, and it works well. I think the file size limit is roughly 20mb - a more complicated script (I think gmailfs does this) would break all the files into groups of roughly 20mb. Someone posted a reply to make it such that you could drag files onto the applescript and they would be sent to your gmail account. If you want to backup a few directories, just type
Code: 
tar -czf ~/Desktop/backupfile.tgz   /path/to/folder1 /path/to/folder2 /path/to/folderN
and send the file to your gmail account as an attachment. Of course you can also encrypt it, which would take care of the privacy concerns.
 
federalists said:
but, does anyone know of a mail.app plugin for gmail? i just got an account, but i don't really care about the archiving. i just want the space.
Click to expand...

You don't need no plugin! GMail has POP3, so you can use it straightaway with Mail.app.

See this linky to enable POP3 for your account, and this linky to configure GMail for Mail.app.

Hope that helps!
 
John Jacob said:
You don't need no plugin! GMail has POP3, so you can use it straightaway with Mail.app.

See this linky to enable POP3 for your account, and this linky to configure GMail for Mail.app.

Hope that helps!
Click to expand...

by the time he asked, - Look date - :eek: Gmail was almost unknown for the world...
 
AmigoMac said:
by the time he asked, - Look date - :eek: Gmail was almost unknown for the world...
Click to expand...

Whoa! Didn't see that date!

But it would be really cool to have a 2 GB "portable" hard drive....
 
bump

Has anyone had any success in finding/making an app for this? C'mon, (Ballmer) developers, developers, developers YEAH. :D

EDIT: Hey guys, I found something close to it. It's script based but works great for me. Drag-n-Drop, sort of. I've attached it.
 

Attachments

  • Gmail Drive (OS X).dmg.zip
    52.6 KB · Views: 507
You must log in or register to reply here.
Register on MacRumors! This sidebar will go away, and you'll see fewer ads.
Top Bottom
Back