Make your Hotmail as network drive in Outlook

[bitsonic]

I don't know if anyone know this before, but I discover it today:

Anyone notice that in Outlook 2003, you can directly drag and drop a file to your folder? OK, this can make your Hotmail as network drive.

Just add your hotmail account to Outlook 2003. Then create a folder, for example "Files". Then you can drag and drop a file from your hard drive to this folder. And then, when you are in other place, open your Hotmail in Outlook 2003, drag and drop the files to the local hard drive. You can drag multiple files at a time. Note: Please do not drag it to the inbox. Otherwise Outlook will pop-up a new mail window and include the file as attachment.

Some issues:

1. Seems that file cannot exceed 20MB, but not fully tested yet. (I have a 2GB hotmail account)

2. Seems that you can only use this when you are using HTTP mode, not Outlook Connector. Not fully tested yet.

3. Although you can drag .exe file to the folder, Outlook will not allow you to take it out as it's potential unsafe file. (Probably could be fixed by modifying registry: Level1Remove, not tested yet)

4. You can only use Outlook to retrieve your file. Outlook Express or Web Access will not recoginze the file.

See the attached screen shot.

Edited February 3, 2005 by bitsonic

[kinetix63 Veteran]

Cool! Anybody know if you can do something similar via the Outlook interface with GMail?

[bitsonic]

I afraid that it should be impossible for Gmal. As Outlook will visit Gmail via POP3 protocol. In POP3 protocol, local folder is not synchronized with the server. But I know there is a small tool that can make Gmail as a virtual disk. I don't really remember the name. Sorry.