Okay said and done in the title itself. GMail just got rid of the one thing which has been irritating me for so many years of my using GMail. Multi-Select Attachments is here. From this day onwards, if you want to select multiple files to attach, you don’t need to attach them individually. Gone are the days of zippping multiple files into an archive, just because you want to send them through GMail. Now all you need to do is browse for the files, and select all of them, and UPLOAD. Voila!!!! Read the full article on GMail Blog here.
Also new is the flickr-ish upload Progress bars which indicate whether your selected attachment file has been completely uploaded yet or not. Great going GMail. There you go!! Few more reasons to love your all improved GMail. What more do you want from it? Ask away.
Also new in GMail is the introduction of the new Import/Export functionality of Filters. To use it, turn it on from the Labs tab under Settings, and from the Settings > Filters page you can download a file containing some or all of your filters or upload a file to create a set of filters all in one go.
Read the post on GMail Blog, on what else you could do with this new functionality which include stuff like downloadinf filters on POP and IMAP, Sharing Filters et al.
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I’ll post my comment on this here considering you were linked from the gmail blog, as I can’t yet find the place to comment on this directly to the gmail folks. I hope they’re reading!
The new progress bar is cool, but seemingly unnecessary to me given that I tend to attach smaller files (pdfs of things like resumes or relatively small documents) that upload really quickly.
The one thing that’s lost with this new functionality that I really don’t like is the loss of the hyperlink to open the attachment before you send it! Previously, once the attachment was complete, the doc title became a link and you could open it in a new window/acrobat reader. This was very, very helpful when attaching files with similar names/different file folder origins. Now, there’s no way to do a last minute “safety check” to make sure that you’re attaching the right file. Please, Google – bring the link back!