It appears that Google has put a file size limit on “attachments”. I’ve installed GMail Drive and tried a couple quick uploads. One was a tar.bz2 file that weighs in at 23MB. After dragging the file over to the GMail Drive window, it worked for a while then returned an error message stating that “File is too big. GMail does currently not support files larger than 10 Mb.”

does somebody know if it works through a proxy server and if you can configure the ports of the proxy?

Greetings

Is there any limit for the no of character of the file name? it seems it does not support windows long file name.

thanks

hi,can anyone upload .zip files? Mine can’t. The error reads:

Sorry, for security reasons, Gmail does not allow you to send this type of attachment.

How can I disable the Autologin option?
Thanks.

What we need is your assurance that our logins and passwords are kept away from potentially prying eyes. Let’s have that source code, please!

how to uninstall this Gmailfs?

I made a typo it seems when typing my gmail password for the first time, now the program always tryes to log in with the incorrect password. Anyone know how to make the damed thing forget the password? Reinstalling does not work.

There is no way to mount multiple GMail drives yet. He is using embedded IE code so the cookie is set to one account and you can only mount one drive within his code at this point. Personally, I see the tool as pushing beyond Google’s intent for GMail and support for multiple GMail drives is a sure way to get the tool banned quickly.

Multiple accounts are not really supported as the enbedded IE code accesses the GMail cookie. You need to use multiple browsers to access multiple accounts easily. Understand that this goes well beyond Google’s intent and so most app authors are unwilling to deal with the problem. If you were to use Firefox for your non-drive account and IE for your drive account you would be in good shape. Multiple GMail Drives are not supported on the same machine.

why have error fair?
After haven’t this message

I don’t know how to uninstall gmailfs but I did the trick by using system restore to back the date before installing it (my computer is Windows XP)

i noticed that u can uninstall from the add/remove in the control panel.

Hi, I’ve installed gmailfs and have a problem with it. Every time I click the drive I’m logged into gmail without any password request.

I share the computer with a few others, and would rather they not read my mail. Any suggestions?

Bjarke was kind enough to point out that you can uninstall from Control Panel, Add/Remove Programs.

Some thoughts - GMail Drive requires IE, not Firefox. Therefore, you need IE installed. This should not be a problem for most people as removing IE is not trivial.

If you use IE to access GMail, GMail drive will interfere with your cookies if you have two accounts. To support multiple accounts you need multiple browser brands. IE, Firefox, and Netscape will get you access to three GMail accounts without the hassle of logging in but Google doesn’t really want you to have multiple accounts. At least not yet.

Proxy is a big question in my mind. Since GD uses IE it would seem that you should be OK for pulling the files in but you need open access to port 25 for mail I think and standard proxy will not provide this. Therefore, in proxy situations you are screwed. This is my speculation as I don’t use proxy and have not tested.

This util is great but only works for me if I turn my firewall (ZoneAlarm) off completely. Anyone else using the freeware version of ZoneAlarm successfully with GMail drive? If so, please tell me how.

The help file when you install says that it is under a viral license, but i see no sores?

i demand open sores!

Windows Explorer needs access to the net. A problem for me with getting the program to work.

The username and password is stored in a cookie. The same cookie used by IE to log into Gmail.

I didn’t seem to have any problem with .zip files.

hi, i have a few problems using gmailfs which are

1. i can’t copy any file which its name + extention is not longer than 40 char to gmail drive properly.
2. sometimes, i copy only file to gmail drive but it antomatically creates a folder and that file is in that folder
3. last one i’m not sure about its security, is there anyone can know whether the creator of this program can hack my g-mail account or not ?

tnx for your answers in advance

I found a problem when I changed my password on http://www.gmail.com. There’s no way to modify the username/password in the properties menu of Gmaildrive once I let the Gmaildrive to remember my username/password. I’d try to uninstall the Gmaildrive and reinstall it, but it still remember the old username/password.

This is a cool hack! I did find another bug, though; it doesn’t handle apostrophes in filenames properly. Dragging a file called “joe’s diner.txt” into the GMail drive generates a directory called “joe” containing a file “’sdiner.txt”. Dragging the folder, or the file, back to the local filesystem doesn’t regenerate the right name. But otherwise a cool hack!

When trying to copy and paste a file to my harddisk, it says that i can’t copy the file from my gmail account???

I’m able to download it when logging in http://www.gmail.com?

How do I fix this??

When I log in to Gmail normally I see that the files are renamed to part01.bin. Is it possible to maintain the original file name. (Except for .zip and other problem extensions.)

I have been trying to get this to work and havent had any success. I have followed the directions as to how to set it up and then start using it. I try to create folders and i have also tried transfering files to it. It does the transfer animations and then nothing shows up. I am not behind a firewall and all my user information is ok. Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

Check you Email Long. I havent anymore invites so dont ask for one…

Hi !
i installed the Gmaildrive stuff and it worked very well during the fist day.
but the day after,it’s still on the Explorer but when clicking on it i have the following Error message :
“An error occured:Login failed
System Error Message :
Le fichier spécifié est introuvable
(cannot find specified file)”
I work on Win98 Se and Fiefox + IE.
can somebody help me ??

thank you

Please explain how i can change the login details. I apparently made a typo in the adress or password and there’s no opportunity to change that.

hey, gmail alouws u 2 upload attachments around 20 MB, when u compose an email, but when you use this program to drag files into your gmail acout, it says gmail doesn’t support files larger than 10 mb… y is that?

Thanx

way cool but way buggy. it would be great if it could include compression and auto file splitting.

Is it possible to mount the gmail drive in total commander?

I think this is a great application and people should stop bitchin and thank the guy that created it. He took the original incarnation which was on a Linux system and created a windows counter part. Thats f*** great! Also I think everyone asking for source code is f*** rude. Maybe he doesn’t want to give the source out because he worked so hard on it. Maybe he wants to eventually sell it as a app. You don’t know what he wants to do with it and its his choice not yours. If he does submit it as open source, fine it will get developed faster and features will be added. But let that be his choice not yours. And if you don’t like this app so much than go make your own with your own code god forbid.

My Gdrive bombs with the following error:
The security identifier provided is not from an account domain

Any clues?

When can i find the source code for gmail drive?
Why do you don’t release it?

Best regards,
User99

I to been using gmail drive for awhile,It is great,but like some other pepole now i get this error ( The security identifier provided is not from an account domain)Could this be a SP2 issue?

for the who humbles about a lurge filem you can use this tool writhen by a israeli, that splits and send automatically

http://www.peer2mail.com/help.html#SendingFile

How to change your Gmail Drive’s icon:

1. open registry editor
2. navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{2B3453E4-49DF-11D3-8229-0080BE509050}\DefaultIcon
3. modify to your heart’s desire. i personally use a copy of google.ico saved to c:\windows\system32

i know someone will want to know this eventually.

Suggestion (please!):
Silently log all errors to a log file instead of popup dialog windows so that attachments can continue sending.

When I try to upload a file that is bigger than 1 MB, I get the following error message:
An error occured: Unable to create file.
Is there a setting or anything to allow uploading files bigger than this?

Great app!! if you do decide to release its source then a mighty fair play to you but if you decide to sell it as well then thats fair play too as i heard you put alot of work into this and stripped it from linux or something?
couple of things tho..
i uploaded a file with it and after signing into my gmail account its saved as a .bin file but after downloading that and trying to mount or open with various things its corrupted. creating a .cue is useless.
but i can at least drag n drop it back from the gmail drive back onto my hdd.
i know it may be cheecky but i would really like to see the source code for it as, as much as i like gdrive id like to know how secure my gmail login details are and how secure the whole thing is.

Thanks tho im really liking it

Please help me , I’m not able to change password in autologin , is there any registry key to change?

Hi, when I try to login with my 100% correct username and password, I get this:

“an error occurred: Login failed”

What could be the problem? I tested my login data several times, but just can’t login.

Thx, Ethan

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Just found this out after some experimenting…
Alot of people are having trouble with gdrive renaming the extension of uploaded files(drag n dropped to .bin so what you have to do is when signing into your gmail account to download a file simply rename the extension back to what it was originally.
say if i upload AnImage.jpg gdrive renames it to part01.bin so when downloading choose to “save as” or “save link as” by right clicking the link and then renaming it to its original name and extension, ie; AnImage.jpg and itll be fine
Hope that helps alot of people out who havent worked it out yet.

Brazen1
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Great app. it would be better if we could find the files stored in gmail through the web interface with the same name, and not ….bin

Here’s a suggestion..

how about a queue, so when I want to upload like 70 different 10 mb files, it will upload each one by one

happy to have 1GB storage

I tested GmailFS,but it lost connect to gmail too many times,why not use the HTTPS protocal by enable TLS 1.0 like I access gmail. It’s stronger.

you dont delete it, if you would have read the comments here you would have seen that you can uninstall it via add/remove in control panel.

(I posted this before, but it got buried in the mass of other comments, so I’m reposting it)

How about a system to split files > 10 MB into smaller chunks of 10 MB or less each, then upload them all?

For example:

User uploads bigfile.big, which is 55 MB.

GMail Drive uploads:

1_F5F1D96B-9A92-4627-9FC5-CFEFB1BE5AF2 (10 MB)
2_F5F1D96B-9A92-4627-9FC5-CFEFB1BE5AF2 (10 MB)
3_F5F1D96B-9A92-4627-9FC5-CFEFB1BE5AF2 (10 MB)
4_F5F1D96B-9A92-4627-9FC5-CFEFB1BE5AF2 (10 MB)
5_F5F1D96B-9A92-4627-9FC5-CFEFB1BE5AF2 (10 MB)
6_F5F1D96B-9A92-4627-9FC5-CFEFB1BE5AF2 (5 MB)
!_F5F1D96B-9A92-4627-9FC5-CFEFB1BE5AF2 (< 1 KB)

!_[guid] is a descriptor file listing the original filename and how many parts there are. [guid] is a nonbracketed GUID.

One other idea is encryption. On installation, GMail Drive should generate a random encryption key. All uploads should be encrypted with that key, and all downloads should be decrypted with it.

Guys maybe some of you should read the damn readme and the top of this damn site everyone once and awhile.
BTW even before it was posted all you had to do was click File menu and you would of seen it.

If you ticked “autoconnect” but need to change your login details, let the gmail drive login error out, the go to file > log in as …, and put in the correct username and password.

I like the convenience that GMAILFS provided. However it’s a little tedious for me to partition files into size less than 10MB in order to put files with size greater than 10MB to the GMAIL account.

So i suggest this program can be further improved if there is mechanism to allow big files to be put to GMAIL. Of course, the limit for each mail is 10MB, but the program should be able to partition big files and recombine for users automatically. I am glad to see this improvement.

I can’t seem to make a desktop shortcut for the GMail drive…any ideas? All i get is:

The file C:\::{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}\::{2B3453E4-49DF-11D3-8229-0080BE509050} cannot be found.

Many people encounter the problem which the uploaded file extension changed to .bin (ie. part01.bin). This occurred as you are still using the old version of the Gmail Drive. If you update it to the latest version(v1.02 currently), the problem should be solved. However, I have found out another problem with the Gmail Drive. I noticed that the file downloaded from the email attachment by signing into your gmail account through http://www.gmail.com always has 1 byte in size larger than the original file. This is not a problem if your file is the type of document as you still can open it and view it. However, for the file ends with ‘.EXE’, it cannot be executed due to the change in size. Hopefully, this bug can be solved in the next version.

Andy

is the source ever gonna be released .. like somone pointed out earlier .. it kinda feels safer .. if u do have access to the code .. and know wht its doing with our info..

Both computers are xp sp2 btw.

There are programs that make me able to use other mailservers instead using google?

I Have unlimited mail space storage with my ISP and i should be happy to use Tons of GB like a virtual hard-disk.

JohnPipol

I can’t upload files anymore, since a couple of days!!

Only download or only atteched mail files are accepted.

Any infos about that?

REJOICE!!!

I’ve figured out what causes the error below:

“An error occured: Login Failed.
System Error Message:
The security identifier provided is not from an account domain.”

I have my default internet zone on higher than default security (scriping/activex/etc disabled) so I add the sites I want to use scripting etc added to my trusted zone…

In your internet control panel, security settings, you must ENABLE the option “Web sites in less priviledged web content zone can navigate into this zone” to the default or trusted zone (or whatever zone you have *.google.com in).

It works for me now yay!!!!!

Don’t like P2M. It’s easy to use, just a pain uploading and downloading files, and merging them so you can use them. I would rather just upload the files manually.

excelent

I installed your gmail drive thingy and when logging in it said that my userame and pasword are invalid.. account does ot exist!! Which is odd as Iv’e been using my gmail all day.

So, I’m not impressed…

can i do smth that other people could send to their pc out o my gmail drive? but they don’t know the login, could they download any file? and if they can, how could they? or what should i do to make it possible?

First: Thanks!

Second: It would be pretty really nice to add a bunch of information about the file by encoding this into the message body instead of the header. This would allow much longer pathnames/filenames, saving of creation and modification dates, segments(if GMail Drive is extended to automatically segment and reassemble large files), and maybe other meta/filesystem information.

Somebody knows how to make a working shortcut on the desktop to open GMAIL DRIVE ?
I’m very interrested…

Tanks in advance

Le ouistiti

good!

“”After i write my Gmail User Name and Password and hit OK this Message appear:
“An error occured: login Failed
System error message:
A connection with the server could not be established”
and when i hit OK again this message appears:
“GMailFS was unable to open the volume and enumerate the files.
verify connection to internet and Gmail.”
My connection to the internet and the Gmail account are just fine!
What can i do?
Please help me!
I’m desperate Thanks.

I am having the exact same problem.

When I try GMailFS on Windows NT 4.0. Setup gets the error message:

RUNDLL: Error loading C:\WINNT\System32\ShellExt\GMailFS.dll
The specified procedure could not be found

In fact, the DLL is there.

(Add/)Remove programs applied to GMailFS gives the same error.

dany and joe, read a few comments up and you will see how to resolve that problem.

Hum Just to say, Ive tried low security options in IE because “Web sites in less priviledged web content zone can navigate into this zone” was already checked, Ive always the problem.

I have the same problem than tekno junky, CYANure,godorog,…

Dont know what’s happened, but if its a gmail drive problem, i hope it will be fixed very soon with a new version

I used Gmail drive for a week or so without issues (great tool btw), but it suddenly stopped working: “login failed” error. Checked login details, un-install, re-install… No relief …. Logging in manually to read email works fine… What happened?
Thanks!

GmailFS has not functioned for me since 11/2/04. Gmail seemed to go down momentarily (about 5 mins) and other people from across the country with whom I was speaking at the time reported the same thing. It came back up and I can access my gmailfs account when logging in as a user but the gmailfs has stopped working. I’m experiencing the same thing from home and work. Anyone know whats up? Having the same problem? Not having this problem?
Thanks,
Phill

system error message: unable to open the network connection profile

gmailfs does not work anymore. don’t know why? did google do something to block it?

“Does it have anything to do with setting Firefox as default internet browser?”

No ive IE and the same pb :’(

hola sabes instale el programa en xp, pero no funciona no me valida el login que hago? gracias

when i used GMailDrive on the first day it worked well but on the next day it gives me an error message i tried uninstalling it and the installing it again but it still dosn’t work. i wonder why??

i am also suspiscious of the source code of the app. it might be written in such a way that the usernames and passwords of the account are transfered to somebody.

any comments???

GMail drive is now operational, version 1.03 is out enjoy

Yahoo! mail also provide a 1G mail box, (but you have to change your language to Simplify Chinese to get it, then you can go back to your own language but still keeping the 1G space) is there a shell extention for yahoo mail to make it as a hard drive? Since yahoo is more easy to apply.

With version 1.3, I can create a new folder, but it disappears on refresh. When I copy a folder (with files/folders) it creates a “file” for the “.” like “GMAILFS: /To_CD/. [14;a;1]“, which doesn’t seam to be needed since when it is moved to the trash gFS drive still enumerates correctly.

Thanks, and keep up the good work.

is it posible to make this install to a floppy disc? so you can get to the vitaul drive from any were,rather then having to install it

you need to completely uninstall the old version
control panel > add remove

Then reboot your PC and re-install the new version.
Mine’s working again.

Suggestions:
Add possibility to send file with spaces without sobstitute spaces with underscore
Add possibility to drag and drop with right click
Add files compression with zlib (http://www.gzip.org/zlib/) prior to send files (dividing file >=10MB in more files)
Add speed (KB/s) in posting file dialog
Create automatically a filter in gmail for e-mails that in subject have GMAILFS : Skip the Inbox (Archive it) and Apply the label: GMAILFS
Add possibility to drag and drop from a folder in GMail Drive to another folder in GMail Drive
Mount another Drive for viewing normal e-mails

Oh yes 1.0.3 work fine.

Ive just uninstall my actual version.
Reboot
install last version.
Reboot

thx +

gmail driver, please

I downloaded the ZIP file,
But am unable to install the setup on XP.
Should the personla firewall be disabled to do so ?? Any other alternatives ??

i cant seem to upload or transfer files that are ard 4mb.. how come??

My gmail drive actually does not work it always says:

An error occurred: Login failed

System error message:

The profile could not be opened

Gmailfs was unable to open the volume and enumerate the files

verify connection to internet and gmail

I tried this with different pcs and on a network and it wont work but why? any ideas?

Ok I have read the post about installing version 2 and everything works fine now thx

i have downloaded the version 1 recently but i couldn’t login after installation.here is the condition in my pc

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v329/anifesoj_oal228/1.jpg

after i click yes, it goes to

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v329/anifesoj_oal228/2.jpg

actually,after i download and install the version 2 it is till the same condition as the pics shown above

if anyone who know the resaon plz send a mail at===> anailuj228@gmail.com
thx

send me Gmail drive !!!!!!!!!!

shekhar