Well, as you all know the Mini comes with box.net shortcuts to use it as a backup device for your system. I tried it, and alas it still failed me. I don’t like having to go into my browser to upload or open something. Just seems silly. So, like I had on previous notebooks I used gmail drive. The great part about gmail drive is that once you set it up on one computer, you just install it on as many as you need and you can access all of the same files from them, without logging in every time. What you need:
Gmail account 5 minutes.
Download the gmail drive software listed above. Install it. Then open my computer, and you will see this:
Double click on Gmail Drive. A login screen appears. Put in your gmail.com account info. I have a gmail account used just for this, but if you don’t we’ll address what to do. Now drag a file to the gmail drive just to check it. Then login to gmail.com Once you are logged in you will notice that there is a file with the subject: GMAILFS: and the sender is “me”. This confirms the shell extension worked correctly. Now go to settings, filters. If this is your primary email you won’t want these files cluttering up your inbox/front screen. Setup a new filter with the criteria for MESSAGE SUBJECT being gmailfs. Then click next. Set it up to look like this:
In the apply label section when you select the drop down an option will appear to create a new label. I did this so that all of my files have the same label in case of some sort of failure with gmail drive, or like a long time ago, gmail blocks the gmail drive from accessing. NOw, you can’t really run files or programs from this obviously, but it does work much better than box.net and is super easy to setup and use. Your computer will even show how much space you have left on it(this is accurate):
