How To Use GMail as Your Storage Drive via Windows Explorer

GMail was the first web-based email service that gave its users 1GB of storage space. Since then the storage was raised to 4 GB and now its 7+ GB and counting – an ever-increasing space. Not all users need this much space for their email inbox. If there was some other way you could use all this extra space?

I think the some intelligent developers were thinking the same thing and the GDrive was created. GMail Driveis a Shell Namespace Extension that creates a virtual file system around your Google Mail account, allowing you to use Gmail as a storage medium.

Gmail Drive Usage:

Once you download (link below) and install GMail drive, you would see a new drive icon in your My Computer window. You can create new folders, copy and drag-n-drop files to this drive. (You may or may not be asked to restart your computer) In my case – I did not need a restart.

In order to start storing files on your GMail drive you need to first login to your GMail account. Just right-click on the GMail drive and click login -

You would get a window where you can input your GMail id and password and you would be logged in once you enter correct details.

You can choose whether to auto-login every time by checking the auto-login box.

Once you click on the ok button on login screen – if your credentials are verified you would see the logging into GMail screen. It might take a minute or two – try not to disturb the window.

Once you are logged in you can right-click on the GMail Drive and click on properties to see how much space are you using now.

As you can see it shows us the amount of space we are using on our GMail account. It seems I have a 7 GB+  space that can be used.

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