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Gmail Hard Drive App?

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legaleye3000

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I heard if you have GMail you can use their space as a hard drive....

Is there any program that lets you do this and then retrieve on Windows computers? Also, let you access on another MAC without the hard drive program installed?

Thanks
 
Do you need the program to access the files?

Basically, where do you go to access the files if I use a second computer that doesn't have GDisk installed? Thanks!
 
Lets say it works. It installs and you are able to backup something to GMail...

How do you retrieve what you backed up? Do you have to use the program to retrieve?
 
cardsdoc said:
Out of curiosity I just tried it. It kept crashing on my 10.5.1 system trying to set it up and I couldn't use it. I found a couple other users with similar problems. So it may not work with Leopard yet.
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Good point, I haven't tried it since I installed Leopard. Wait for a developer update.

Do you need the program to access the files?

Basically, where do you go to access the files if I use a second computer that doesn't have GDisk installed? Thanks!
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You don't need the program at other computers, because GDisk just uploads the file to a draft, and it's kept in your "Drafts" folder in Gmail. You just open the draft and download the file.
 
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legaleye3000 said:
So can't you just upload the files in a draft without using the program?
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No, how would you do that? That's what the program DOES. It enables you to upload files to your gmail account.

IN fact, GDisk is free. Why not just download it and find out?
 
I am using Leopard... I guess I'll wait til they update it...

When you go into your drafts to retrieve, does it download the files as when they were backed up, or does the program put them into a different format meaning you need the program to actually retrieve them?
 
legaleye3000 said:
I am using Leopard... I guess I'll wait til they update it...

When you go into your drafts to retrieve, does it download the files as when they were backed up, or does the program put them into a different format meaning you need the program to actually retrieve them?
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So far as I know, the program leaves them in the file type they were uploaded as.
 
Thanks for the tip on GDisk - I did not know about this. Very interesting... I'll be trying it this weekend on my Tiger PB.

I wonder if anyone has written a Windows client too so that you can cross-platform this. Since I'm on a PC during the day and a Mac at night, it would be cool to avoid the whole thumb drive thang....
 
I found GDisk (when I tried it back in the day) to be rather simple and inadequate for my desired use of my GMail account as an external storage device.

I've since given up on the idea, there just isn't anything that is robust enough out there at the mo'.
 
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