How to Turn Your Gmail into Awesome Storage Tool

online storage using gmail Getgspace is definitely one of the coolest things I’ve seen. It can turn your Gmail account into online storage tool stuffed with handy features. It’s in a way similar to previously reviewed Gmail Drive but way more powerful. So let’s look into it

At the moment Gspace works only with firefox, so you gotta have Firefox (review) before you can try it. When it comes to operating system things look good pretty good as there are versions for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.

How does it work?

Gspace can be downloaded from here. Once installed, open your firefox browser and go to: ‘Tools > Gspace’. Gspace interface has 4 key areas: My Computer (files on your PC), My Gspace (files stored on Gmail), Transfers (transferring, completed, cancelled, files in queue, …) and Status (logged in, logged out, file details etc.).

Before anything else you’ll need to enter your Gmail details through ‘Manage Accounts’ option. Once that is done you should be able to login and start using it. In case you experience any kind of problems check out Gspace faq section.

Using Gmail for Storage Purposes

Gspace has four different operational modes:

  • File Transfer Mode: download/upload
  • Player Mode: listen to your stored music files using gspace’s built-in media player
  • Photo Mode: view and browse through pictures and albums stored on gspace
  • Gmail Drive: manage Gdrive files

Overall it’s quite useful application so if you need couple GBs of reliable storage space then definitely check it out.

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Aibek Esengulov

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  • ntport

    thx Aibek, I love it

  • http://makeuseof.com Aibek

    enjoy

  • http://www.cnn.com John

    I just use GigaTribe ( http://www.gigatribe.com ), it lets me access my computer from remote locations and I also use it to share folders with friends.

  • Daniel

    GSpace is perhaps the most useful and ingenious Firefox extension I’ve used. A must-have!

  • http://extensionholic.com Frank

    If you like Gspace, you may want to check out Boxft.

    Boxft is a neat Firefox extension that simplifies file transfer to Box.net free online storage. You can open a free Box.net account with 1GB storage and use Boxft to back up your data or to exchange files with other people.

    Full deatils: http://extensionholic.com/boxft.html

  • Doah

    Gmail is fun and exciting join now

  • Ted Radgitt

    Seriously if you wan to use GMail as cloud storage then check out smestorage.com – you will be amazed…….many tools, many integrations including iPhone, Facebook, Windows File Manager and much more stuff !

  • http://www.photosforsouls.com Jonathan Woodruff

    Boy, that is so incredibly handy!

  • rrgg

    I can’t even get gspace to work. It says it uploaded files but it didn’t.

    • http://makeuseof.com Aibek

      The software been reviewed a while ago and Gmail has changed several times since then. So some thing may no longer work. Sorry about that.

  • nima

    have you read these reviews on download.com?:
    http://www.download.com/Gspace/9241-11745_4-10854874-5.html?tag=uo;uo

  • bptel

    Have been using it for last 2 years.
    No problems whatsoever :)

    All you need to do is login to gmail.com before opening GSpace.

  • jerry

    gmail drive is cool, but not stable. I find another tool: clouddrive : http://www.driveoncloud.com, which has similar functionalities.