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Employez votre compte de GMail comme commande dure virtuelle

20 avril 2007 · par David Bradley

Commande dure de GMailSi vous avez un courrier de Google (GMail) compte vous avez probablement noté le nombre de bytes d'élévations d'espace mémoire, apparemment sans fin. À l'origine, les utilisateurs ont eu 1 gigaoctet à leur disposition mais quand j'ai noté en mon compte de GMail ce matin il m'a indiqué que j'ai eu 2.8 gigaoctets de l'espace de disponible. Mais j'emploie seulement quelques méga-octets de cela, car je télécharge toujours tout l'email dans Thunderbird ainsi je peux travailler en différé si je dois.

Quoi qu'il en soit, presque 3 gigaoctets de l'espace au jeu avec ! Mais comment ? Comment pouvez-vous mettre cet espace à la bonne utilisation ? Vous pourriez email les divers dossiers pendant que les attachements, je supposent, archivent vous-même que les email vous vous envoyez, et employez cela comme genre de réseau de réserve virtuel. Ou, vous pourriez opter pour Firefox et GSpace s'ajoutent dessus

Une fois que vous faites s'ajouter le GSpace dessus, c'est chose facile de la configurer, clic GSpace dans le menu d'outils de Firefox et si vous ne l'avez jamais employé avant, vous obtiendrez une session main-se tenante comme le type interface d'explorateur s'ouvrent. Mais, il n'aura pas besoin de lui, il est très facile employer toi.

Voici un bout de bonification pour ceux qui ne peut pas faire face à juste presque 3 gigaoctets de l'espace - ouvrez un autre compte de GMail et ajoutez qu'au dossier de configuration de GSpace (Shhh. Ne dites pas n'importe qui que j'ai dit suggéré cela, il pourrait être contre le GMail T&Cs.

Une fois que vous êtes établi avec GSpace, déconnectez-vous et notez alors de nouveau dans votre compte à la page de GMail proprement dite et réglée un filtre aux archives automatiquement les dossiers que vous téléchargez, autrement vous obtiendrez des avis de nouveaux email pour chacun dans l'entretien de Google et vos adjonctions d'avis de GMail. D'ailleurs, si vous accédez à GMail par l'intermédiaire de POP3 comme le fais je, vous finirez vers le haut de télécharger tous ces dossiers dans votre programme autonome d'email, qui genre de défaites l'objet de avoir tout que l'espace supplémentaire.

Comment est-ce que je peux archiver des courrier de gspace (fortement recommandés) ?

A. 1. Ouverture à l'interface réelle de Web de gmail.

2. Le clic sur le lien « créent filtre » au dessus

3. Donnez votre email address dans «  » et «  » derrière des champs. En outre, élasticité « d$ » dans le domaine (comme sujet contient d$ à l'extrémité).

4. Bouton de « prochaine étape » de clic. Marquez ici le checkbox qui indique le « saut l'inbox (archives il) ». Vous pouvez également donner une étiquette au « appliquez l'étiquette » dropdown (recommandé). This would be useful when you want to search for a particular file at a later point.

5. Click “Add Filter” and you are done. Now the uploaded files(emails) are not shown in the inbox.

Finally, if you need some serious online storage space consider getting a big chunky network attached storage (NAS) device with its own built-in server (e.g. a Buffalo Linkstation). These machines plug straight into your network router and can be set up for remote access. Just remember not to switch off your router and NAS at the outlet if you are planning a trip away and what remote access.

21 responses so far ↓

  • Links Of Interest » David Pitlyuk // Apr 27, 2007 at 4:42 pm

    […] Learn how to turn your GMail account into a free 3GB virtual hard drive. […]

  • 2Perfect // May 6, 2007 at 6:23 am

    Is this hard drive only accessible to the account owner, or is it possible to use it as “web host” to upload images and such?

  • David Bradley // May 6, 2007 at 9:10 am

    2Perfect, I’ve not looked into the sharing aspect., but the only way to do what you suggest would be to hand out your username and password to people with whom you wanted to share the files. Not exactly a secure operation.

  • 2Perfect // May 7, 2007 at 5:40 am

    I see. That wouldn’t be good then. Unless a separate public account is created specifically for that group of people to access files, although it would still be much more of a hassle than just opening up multiple free web-hosting accounts and hotlinking ^_^

    thanks for the help anyway!

  • dani // May 21, 2007 at 7:15 pm

    You don’t need to download it from the email client :) there are special file sharing programs that can use emails for storing files.
    works fast as hell, you’ll be surprised.

  • David Bradley // May 21, 2007 at 9:02 pm

    Perhaps you could elaborate Dani…

  • Very // May 23, 2007 at 11:27 am

    You can now send and receive 20Mb attachments between GMail accounts, as opposed to the previous 10Mb limit.

  • Bob // Jun 28, 2007 at 2:46 pm

    Just read in a slashdot comment that this use of gmail is against the T&Cs (not sure for how long this has been the case)

    http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=43692

  • David Bradley // Jun 28, 2007 at 2:47 pm

    Thanks for the alert Bob. I just scanned the terms of use and cannot see any specific mention that this usage of a GMail account is not allowed. As I said, in the original post potential users of this system should be cautious just in case and double check with Google if they are at all worried about using their account as a virtual drive. If I were being precautionary I’d suggest not using your main GMail account for this purpose. If I were being double precautionary, I’d suggest not using GMail in this way at all, at least not until Google tells you it’s okay to do so. I am surprised they have not yet created a standalone virtual drive/storage application yet, they seem to have covered most everything else already. More to the point, why would anyone actually want to use GMail beta as a virtual hard drive? USB drives are so cheap, anyone can afford to carry one in their pocket and there is no chance of it being dropped by a company that only lets its users have access to beta software!

  • Bob // Jun 29, 2007 at 10:45 am

    good point, I’d forgotten that gmail was still in beta after all these years…

    The terms of use section 5 does seem to prohibit use of automated agents, but then lots of desktop mailbox alert apps (including the Google one) would be banned?

  • David Bradley // Jun 29, 2007 at 12:48 pm

    Yep, they allow pop3 downloads, that could be done automatically could it not, therefore that would be excluded from allowable uses, but they encourage you to do that if you want, so there are definitely conflicts in their T&Cs. To be honest, I doubt they really care just as long as you’re clicking on their ads and making them money.

  • David Bradley // Aug 10, 2007 at 1:24 pm

    News just in, some Google Mail users are reporting 9Gb space on their accounts, according to Mashable. This is great news for those worried about filling their quota and anyone who wants a simple email based method of storing files.

  • David Bradley // Aug 20, 2007 at 6:45 pm

    The day of reckoning for those who use virtual drive software and plugins with their Google Mail account. According to Mashable, Google is launching a paid-for file storage service:

    The new storage service brings together your storage usage from Gmail and Picasa Web Albums, allowing you to upgrade for a fee. The fees are as follows, with payments made via Google Checkout:

    -6 GB ($20.00 per year)

    -25 GB ($75.00 per year)

    -100 GB ($250.00 per year)

    -250 GB ($500.00 per year)

  • David Bradley // Oct 12, 2007 at 2:56 pm

    M$ just announced that they are doubling the capacity of Windows Skydrive to 1 Gb, but this is a mere fraction of the capacity available to GDrive users and will be an even smaller fraction once Google upgrades their system to 4 Gb in the next few weeks and then 6 Gb in January 2008. At what point they will officially support a GDrive system, I don’t know, so whatever you do, don’t rely on GMail as a backup for critical files.

  • David Bradley // Nov 27, 2007 at 9:10 am

    I’m up to 5263.332358 megabytes of space on GMail now? What about you? What’s your significant figure?

  • Wogan May // Jan 18, 2008 at 1:48 pm

    I read the Mashable article. Yep - Google is moving towards the GDrive.

    The project was codenamed “Platypus”. The idea is to create an online service that gives you several GB of storage. Then to give you a client that you can download to manage files on that account.

    Add Picasa, Gmail, Google Docs, Orkut, and other services to that, and you basically have your entire life online.

    Your computer becomes a local cache copy, and your Platypus/Google account - and all the documents, photos, emails and feeds it holds - becomes the Golden Master.

    It’s the next step in the evolution of networked computing :)

    ~ Wogan

    Wogan May’s last blog post..New Theme

  • David Bradley // Jan 18, 2008 at 3:46 pm

    Wogan, yes, we’re basically heading towards the internet version of the old mainframe terminal-based systems of yesteryear. I’m not really sure I’d entrust all my docs and data to a remote server though. Would you?

  • Dan // Jan 20, 2008 at 10:16 am

    Hell I would. Here I back up my families’ and my own data across all our machines in different locations (”lots of copies keeps stuff safe”), but really few people do that. Most have their data on one computer — vulnerable to fire, theft, accidental damage, simple mechanical failure, you name it.

    By comparison a remote server adminstered by Google will have *lots* of back-up systems covering it. I’d say that’s a lot safer.

  • David Bradley // Jan 20, 2008 at 4:18 pm

    Dan, point taken. What I was getting at though, is would you entrust private data to a remote server that might at some point be hacked and its guts spilled. Just look at how much data the UK government is loosing these days. What I’d do is backup to an external hard drive (tapes even!) and lock them in a safe at a relative house, or somewhere similar. Of course, if it’s non-sensitive then GDrive would be fine, but I’d also use an additional virtual drive on a different server just in case too.

    db

  • David Bradley // Jan 21, 2008 at 7:20 pm

    Wordpress.com users (which could be anyone even if you have your own hosting for your WP blog) now get 3 gigabytes of free upload space (as opposed to the 50Mb they had before). It shouldn’t be too hard to create a plugin for a WP account that would operate analogously to the GDrive applet, I’m sure. Any takers?

    db

  • David Bradley // Feb 22, 2008 at 10:55 am

    Has Microsoft gazumped Google in the online storage stakes. You can now get 5Gb of storage for free with MS SkyDrive. I still wouldn’t trust it with sensitive docs, but for backing up photos it could be a boon.

    db

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