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Contents 1 NPOV 2 Incorrect warning 3 Account Blocked 4 Experimental means buggy 5 It's stopped working ? Not! 6 Uploading .zip and .exe

[edit] NPOV

Most of this article is fine, but it's obviously POV with the sentence "Gmail Drive is easy to use". I know it's a tiny thing but an encyclopaedia is not there to to give opinions on things, only to give facts. Could someone please change it to something a little less opinionated? -- Ukdragon37 21:18, 20 October 2005 (UTC)

easy enough. I removed the sentence (you can do that, too). I also altered the article to 3rd person. — Lomn | Talk / RfC 21:24, 20 October 2005 (UTC)

What's with the section labeled "Warning"? It doesn't seem particularly encyclopedic.--Frenchman113 19:38, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Incorrect warning

This is incorrect, I think:

Hence, a GMail Drive-user will be sharing his/her GMail account details with this third party.

Who is the third party? The software is provided by a third party but the GMail a/c details are not communicated to any third party. Paul Beardsell 21:39, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

I know this for a fact. Your login information is in no way tranmitted to this "third party". The sentence was removed.--Eddie 20:31, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Account Blocked

After uploading a few hundred pictures to my GMail Drive, my acount has been temporarily blocked for 24 hours. If this policy is confirmed, we might have to add a warning that Google detects GMail Drive as an improper use, with maybe a condition on the volume uploaded. --71.107.103.130 05:21, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

Are you sure it's related to GMail Drive, or could it have been something unrelated? Did google actutally tell you that they detected it, that it was improper, and that there was a restriction on the amount uploaded? If not, it sure doesn't belong in the article. Jeepien 06:57, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

I experienced the same thing, after uploading under a couple hundred pictures...I am guessing they flag accounts that upload ~250MB or more in a short period of time, maybe a day. But I got access back the next day and continue to upload more in smaller chunks with no problems. Adam

[edit] Experimental means buggy

Hiding under the term experimental, this is another buggy beta app. It is probably no more than 10% of its ideal version. I would like to see mention of its bugs, as faced by users. --Amit 09:13, 24 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] It's stopped working ? Not!

GMail Drive now shows an empty filelist, however many files are on the server. It does still upload files, but it won't download them. GMail Drive does not cut files up into sections, so the files saved thereon are still accessable through the normal GMail web interface (files are saved as attachments to e-mails).

It happened before that an empty filelist was shown. That time, it was because Google had slightly changed the login procedures for GMail.

16 March 2007 update: A change in the Gmail.com login cause an empty filelist. Download the latest version to access files again. This version also includes a lot of Windows Vista fixes.
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Perhaps a new version of the GMail Drive will soon become available, but at the moment, mine at least is not working. Perhaps this is just a problem with my computer, but I doubt it.

TRiG 08:50, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

Shall we be whining here whenever GMail drive seems to stop working ? As stated in the article (I think), Google makes periodical changes to their web interface, and some of those impact applications such as this - maybe deliberately, maybe not so. The solution is : update your GMail drive (as of this writing, current version is 1.0.0.12 and working well for me). 90.49.241.67 (talk) 16:58, 14 January 2008 (UTC) Ninho

[edit] Uploading .zip and .exe

The article states that .zip and .exe files can't be uploaded, but in my experience that is not the case. I store a number of zip archives with it, and I even uploaded an .exe just now to be sure. Any experiences to the contrary? Burroughsj1 03:06, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

It seems that GMail Drive automatically changes the name of .zip and .exe files so that GMail doesn't recognize them (Example: test.zip -> test.zip_renamed, and so on). Such files show as normal .zip and .exe files on Windows Explorer, and when you re-download them, GMail Drive re-renames them as well. 220.116.196.34 (talk) 02:20, 20 November 2007 (UTC)