Firefox Addon - GSpace

Hello MajorGeeks,

It's been a while since I've been on here, hope you are all well!

I recently formatted my portable HD accidentally:-o It's my own fault for being a bit drunk. However a lot of the files I wiped were backed up in GSpace.

GSpace no longer works as an add-on it seems, but all the files are in my GMail account available to download from the emails.

Some of the files are larger than could fit in one email and are split across 3 or 4 mails. Typically the suffix is altered to:
genericmusic.mp3_gs1
genericmusic.mp3_gs2
genericmusic.mp3_gs3
genericmusic.mp3_gs4

Is there anyway I can download all the attachments in gmail at once and if so, is there a way I can recombine these split files?

Any help greatly appreciated

Cadwah

 

Hello folks,

I have found a way to extract the attachments from GMail in bulk using Thunderbird and an Addon called AttachmentExtractor so that part is solved.

Really just looking for a fix to reassemble the split files now.

Thanks,
Cadwah

 

I haven't figured out what the GS# file type is about yet.

I'm curious if you have gspace already installed in FF and if it just doesn't work anymore because Google asked that it be removed of if it is just not compatible with later versions of FF. I'm thinking if it is just not compatible then maybe downloading Nightly Tester Tools addon and using the override compatibility option for addons would allow you to use Gspace to get your files back.

 

I think that gspace has just sliced the files into managable parts as the data is within email so size was limited. The add-on must have had the capability to rejoin the files.

I believe that gspace no longer works as google have changed something.
I have it installed still on FF 3.5 which I have on another computer and it still doesn't work. I will try overriding and report back later.

 

I looked at the ver 0.5998 version of Gspace addon and it is valid until FF 3.6 so if that is your version of addon then no need to test compatibility. Also if the addon starts at all it is not a compatibility issue. The problem seems to be Google has forbidden it.

Try opening a command line (cmd.exe window) and typing the following as a test:

Code:

 copy /b genericmusic.mp3_gs1 + genericmusic.mp3_gs2 + genericmusic.mp3_gs3 + genericmusic.mp3_gs4 genericmusic.mp3

You would have to change directory to the directory that has your files. Easiest way is to copy those four files to C:\ (I mean the root of C:\ so: My Computer and open C: an put the files directly there rather than on desktop or wherever) from within Windows. Then open a command prompt and use cd c:\ to get to the C:\> prompt and then copy and paste that code.

Edit: Actually the easiest way if you can run bat files would be to copy and paste that code into an empty notepad file and save as gs.bat and then put the bat ile in the same directory as the files and double click it to run. See if it combines the files correctly.

 

Hi, thanks for this, I will test it asap, I am still downloading all the files.

Just a quick question, will I have to use a seperate .bat file for each file or can I use something with wildcards in?
eg.

Code:

 copy /b *.mp3_gs1 + *.mp3_gs2 + *.mp3_gs3 + *.mp3_gs4 *.mp3

 

I'm not sure that will work my code will work, I'm going by the comments in this thread for Linux which looks like they are just combining the files by appending them to each other.

A quick test of a couple of things looks like wildcards are going to be a problem. I'll test a few more but if the copy /b works to combine the files maybe someone in programming familiar with batch files can come up with a working idea.

 

Alright!!!

The code works, the files are as new!

Thanks very much for your time guys!
Cadwah

PS. If anyone else is having the same issue as me, the solution to the bulk download is here: http://lifehacker.com/5156067/how-can-i-download-every-attachment-from-gmail

 

Were you able to get wildcards to work?

 

Yes! hahaha I suprised myself with that one...

Code:

copy /b *.mp3_gs1 + *.mp3_gs2 + *.mp3_gs3 + *.mp3_gs4 + *.mp3_gs5 + *.mp3_gs6 + *.mp3_gs7 + *.mp3_gs8 + *.mp3_gs9 *.mp3

The above will work for all files up to 9 parts, even if there are less it still works.

:cool

Thanks again!

 

Your Welcome.

I'm glad you figured out the wildcards I wouldn't have thought you could do it like that without getting an error when a part didn't exist. Good work!