Gmail drive - I give up

Keeps telling me my file names or extensions are too long...

Maybe I'll rename all the problem files later... But for now there's about
3/4 of CD 1 up there.

Dave

 

ITYF there's an upload limit too.

 

We need a UKRM FTP server. Who has spare home bandwidth and a machine.

 

Not for hosting the sort of stuff this load of reprobates are likely to
put on it. Maybe using eMule with filenames prefixed with "UKRM-" would
be a better option, or a UKRM bittorrent tracker site (but that sounds
like a load of agro to implement me).

 

What about going the P2P route and setting up a private ukrm direct
connect hub? I have run a hub in the past for mates at work to leech
filth off each other. It worked very well. The only disadvantage is
you can't use a generic login for all users as per the ukrm gmail
drive. Each user would have to run a DC++ client and have their own
login account for the hub. A PITA to administer. Yeah, on second
thoughts forget it, its a crap idea.

On a secondary note, I copied a list of MP3'd albums I have
"available" onto the gmail drive if anyone is interested. Under the
folder SimonM.

 

I can provide some server space and bandwidth.

 

1.
http://tftpd32.jounin.net/
"Tftpd32 is searching for a new hosting."
Fine, free and very useful (to me) software.
20M storage and 300M per day download is estimated.

2.
http://viksoe.dk/code/gmail.htm
"such as total filename size must be less than 65 characters"

http://www.softpedia.com/get/Internet/E-mail/Mail-Utilities/GMail-Drive-shell-extension.shtml
"such as total filename size must be less than 40 characters"

This may include the whole path name?

I also read somewhere a minute ago that gmail was limited to 10M
files.

Ah yes, together these limitations will present some difficulties.

I seem to recall that PKZIP could optionally create
multiple files of a certain size. Maybe one of the current zippy
programs does this too. Kludge but it woodwork.

This is such a good idea that someone is bound to fix it,
sooner of later.

What google think of it is of course a different matter.

 

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It's called bittorrent.