G-Mail As File Server?

[Trout]

Cruising Fat Wallet Today, I came across a site that has a "how to" and special shell extension to use your gmail as a file server up to 1 gig, 10MB file size limit.

I havent tryd it yet, But several people on the site are sure raving about it.
Site Is G-Mail as File Server

Might Be worth the effort,
Trout

[confus-ed]

If you are 'nifty' with rar or winzip (or similar) this has no end of interesting possibilities

Better note this bits though

..Be advised that this trick is completely unsupported by the Google folk and so may cease functioning at any time — particularly following upgrades to the Gmail service. As far as we know this isn’t illegal (we actually read the EULA for you — that’s love, people), but we can’t guarantee Google won’t go all RIAA on us and crack down on this app, either, so use at your own risk.
Also, it goes without saying that none of you would dream of using something like this to shuttle around any illegally-obtained or un-DRM’d music, right? ‘Cuz that would make you a criminal, and we can’t advocate that. This is only for personal use storage of your, uh, extensive Powerpoint collection, k?..

But I will add a potentially 'more legal' & ethical purpose - backups (if it'll fit & you trust your data loose in cyberspace) - a bit of twiddling with a suitable backup or imaging tool should let you use it this way

[TechZ]

You need a decent connection to do it, so thats a slight drawback. Its been around almost since Gmail.

[NooNoo]

I use gmail as a personal fileserver anyway.... I just send things to me - no software needed.

[3fingersalute]

I use gmail as a personal fileserver anyway.... I just send things to me - no software needed.

Aye, same here - I just wish they'd lift the size limitations.

[Matridom]

great idea. Personaly, i use my personal webserver with SSH access to shuttle stuff around when needed.

I guess i'm in the heathen masses that does not use g-mail.

[3fingersalute]

great idea. Personaly, i use my personal webserver with SSH access to shuttle stuff around when needed.

I hope you don't use that as a pickup line Mat.........


Anyhow, most of us don't have our own personal webservers, so we gots to take the poor man's way out -