May 12, 2012

How To Save Gmail Attachments Directly to Google Drive


As all of us knows Google Drive is a cloud computing service launched by Google to compete with Google Dropbox & Skydrive. Since it is a product from Google we can expect it to be integrated with other services from the search engine giant.As of now you can directly open and save Google Docs files in you Google Drive account but what about email attachments? They shouldn’t be ignored Right? There is no official update regarding the time-frame in which Gmail and Google Drive will be integrated but a chrome developer has made an extension that will fulfill this purpose.

If you are not aware of Google Drive must read information about Google Drive

Gmail Attachments To Drive is a Google chrome extension developed by Josh Sullivan and is available for download in Chrome app store.

Steps Save Gmail Attachments Directly ti Google Drive


  1. Download and install Gmail Attachments To Drive addon for chrome.
  2. Now open Login into your Gmail account and open any mail with document (pdf,docx etc) attachment.Now you will notice Save to Drive just below your attachment.Click on it and your file will automatically get stored in Google Drive.


However the extension only supports documents like pdf, docx, rtf etc and it cannot save videos and compressed files like .rar or .zip files directly to Google drive.For these type of documents you have to perform the task manually.







However the extension only supports documents like pdf, docx, rtf etc and it cannot save videos and compressed files like .rar or .zip files directly to Google drive.For these type of documents you have to perform the task manually.






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