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- fadeproof
had anyone gotten this up and going?
heard rumors, but supposedly u can download some app. and you get a little gmail icon on your desktop that can be treated as a hard drive, uploading any type of content to your gmail account - if thats the case i need to know more, i say!
- leftwave0
i'll bump this for you - sounds very interesting!
- a-train0
search. ive seen at least 20 posts about this already
- fadeproof0
atrain, ghandolf, have u 2 tried this yet??
- e-pill0
i have 25 gmail accounts and i have all 25 gmail accounts for a hard drive.
i email myself. but what you are saying seems more logical.
i will need to see if anyone else is using it as well b4 trying it.
sounds cool.
:)
- ghandolf0
Yeah... I've uploaded about 65MB worth of mp3's so far as a test. There seems to be a limit to file size uploading. but not sure what the actual limit is yet. Other than that, it's fast enough to stream music from - seems okay so far.
I used another gmail account (sent myself an invite) because you must provide your user name and password to them to log in.... I was afraid of giving them my 'real' gmail account information just in case.
After about a two week 'test', all seems to be in order.
I've been thinking of using it as a free ftp site, for clients to upload their large files to me, and mine back to them.
- HU20050
I know this is not gmail, but I have and xdrive.com account. 10 gigs and works really well. Just thought I would pass it on.
- e-pill0
ghandolf...which link do i need to do it, the beta or the regular?
- fadeproof0
pretty damn good idea ghandolf - perfect for client - related stuff - too bad about the file-size transfer limit - currently, with gmail 10MB is max per transfer- would you say that this xmail thing is about that limit? more? less?
- ghandolf0
The beta one... just sign in with your gmail account/password... (this is why I tried a 'test' one - I didn't want to give away my real one, in case they compromised it somehow).
I had a little trouble getting it started, (logging in) but they were having conflicts with gmail and their log in process... according to the site. It seemed they were trying to possibly stop them from doing this... but in a couple of days, they worked through the issue, and now it works just fine.
- fusionpixel0
does everyone gets a bunch of certificates to be accepted?
Everytime i browser through this website i get asked if I want to install the certificate but it doesnt come from XMPR website.
Anyideas why?
- ghandolf0
pretty damn good idea ghandolf - perfect for client - related stuff -
fadeproof
(Aug 17 05, 21:05)Why, thank you! I thought it was.
Uh... maybe... I can't upload say, an Essential Mix, or a whole album, but individual mp3's were no problem, up to five of them at a time. My clients send me loads of Powerpoint files... which I can probably use it for... but it would major nice if it allowed files larger than that. I haven't found the upper limit yet... but it could very well be 10 MB.
Not much better than email if that's the case... however... I still find it handy to have files (tools or apps.) stored on the web available from anywhere I am..
- e-pill0
coolio tanx!!
:)
- ghandolf0
You're MOST welcome, my friend.
:)
Just another nice 'tool' to have in my bag of tricks.
- fusionpixel0
directly from XmailHardDrive website:
Currently the max file upload size is 20mb however as we gain more sponsors we will remove the upload limit, and you'll be able to upload much much larger files!
- ghandolf0
Ahhh yeah.... Now I remember reading that early on.
(Short term memory loss....)
:)
- fadeproof0
ghandolf, we all DID see u smoke 'the finest herb in all the land'", in Fellowship...
:)
- ghandolf0
Please keep our little secret from the little ones, okay? I don't have enough for all of them.
- fusionpixel0
so, how do you use this for other people? do they have to have a Gmail account too to be able to send you files?
:confused:
- ghandolf0
No... my thought was to just give them the username and password. When their project is over, I simply clean it up, and change the password. The files there belong to their project anyway.... and no one knows it's there but us... after the project, they can't get in without the new password.
Not a 'perfect' idea... but a cheap one! I'm still testing it's usability anyway... jury is still out on it until file upload size improves.