Google Drive

One · 24 Apr 2012 at 16:53

I'm not comparing it to anything. I'm comparing it to itself which is a free operating system which is also going to provide free cloud services in only it's 4th version.

Richie · 24 Apr 2012 at 17:09

PiKe said:
Unless they integrate it into their devices, a-la Apple cloud, I'm not bloody interested.

Annoyed how something as basic as cloud sync is missing from Android devices, for example, I want to pick my phone up, play an angry birds level or two, then pick up my tablet and resume from where I left off.

That's one of the problems with offering free content and functions. Some people are never happy and will still moan that "this function should be available FFS!!!!oneonebanana" :rolleyes:

How many years was iOS out before the kind of thing you are talking about became available?

Deleted member 77746 · 24 Apr 2012 at 17:12

It's always the same with these companies these days. One company does something and bam they all follow.

Richie · 24 Apr 2012 at 17:45

Google Drive is now live: http://drive.google.com/

Judgeneo · 24 Apr 2012 at 17:49

mrbell1984 said:
It's always the same with these companies these days. One company does something and bam they all follow.

Thats always been the case throughout history....

Azza · 24 Apr 2012 at 17:58

Installing now.

Jongo · 24 Apr 2012 at 17:59

Installed it, but not sure if i will be using it much I have more space with dropbox for free from referrals and its very useful being able to publicly link people to a specific file if needed. Either way competition is cool.

Richie · 24 Apr 2012 at 18:08

You should still be able to publicly link someone to a file from GDrive... I have just made a blank doc to test for you - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UI2LbLI53eSxs79iyCEQD0JeeY9R3HCI6egw9I5j-YU/edit... You should even be able to edit it without signing in... (awaits random pish)

Deleted member 77746 · 24 Apr 2012 at 18:18

Installing now...

Azza · 24 Apr 2012 at 18:20

Richie said:
You should still be able to publicly link someone to a file from GDrive... I have just made a blank doc to test for you - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UI2LbLI53eSxs79iyCEQD0JeeY9R3HCI6egw9I5j-YU/edit... You should even be able to edit it without signing in... (awaits random pish)

That will make uni group work so much easier!! :cool:

Jongo · 24 Apr 2012 at 18:21

Richie said:
You should still be able to publicly link someone to a file from GDrive... I have just made a blank doc to test for you - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UI2LbLI53eSxs79iyCEQD0JeeY9R3HCI6egw9I5j-YU/edit... You should even be able to edit it without signing in... (awaits random pish)

Seems you can do that fine.

One of the things i like with dropbox is the ability to use it to host my own images and link them such as.

Jongo · 24 Apr 2012 at 18:23

Azza said:
That will make uni group work so much easier!!

Yeah after messing with the test sheet this is one thing that googledrive has over dropbox.

Craig321 · 24 Apr 2012 at 18:27

How do I enable this for my Google Apps account?

Fillado · 24 Apr 2012 at 18:29

Converted up to cheapest yearly rate and this is in addition to any free storage:

Google Drive:

$30 (£18.59) for 25GB
$60 (£37.18) for 100GB

SkyDrive:

£6 for 20GB
£16 for 50GB
£32 for 100GB

Dropbox

$100 (£61.97) for 50GB
$200 (£123.94) for 100GB

Poor, poor Dropbox!

Azza · 24 Apr 2012 at 18:32

Craig321 said:
How do I enable this for my Google Apps account?

What do you mean? Drive has essentially replaced Google Docs so what ever your settings for Docs were should be what they are for Drive. Unless of course you never had the Docs service installed in the first place.

lcg · 24 Apr 2012 at 18:40

Craig321 said:
How do I enable this for my Google Apps account?

You can't. When I log in with my Google Apps account it says 'Google Drive is not yet enabled for the [domain name] domain'

Google Drive looks impressive. I like the UI.

Azza · 24 Apr 2012 at 18:41

lcg said:
You can't. When I log in with my Google Apps account it says 'Google Drive is not yet enabled for the [domain name] domain'

Google Drive looks impressive. I like the UI.

It works fine for me. :confused:

Craig321 · 24 Apr 2012 at 18:42

Azza said:
What do you mean? Drive has essentially replaced Google Docs so what ever your settings for Docs were should be what they are for Drive. Unless of course you never had the Docs service installed in the first place.

When you try log in with a Google Apps account it says it's not available, even though the Docs/Drive service is enabled in my Apps domain control panel

Azza · 24 Apr 2012 at 18:47

Craig321 said:
When you try log in with a Google Apps account it says it's not available, even though the Docs/Drive service is enabled in my Apps domain control panel

Hmmm that's very weird, like I say works fine for me.

lcg · 24 Apr 2012 at 18:50

Azza said:
It works fine for me.

Interesting. Considering it says 'Google Drive is not yet enabled' I hope that means it'll be enabled shortly.

Craig321 said:
When you try log in with a Google Apps account it says it's not available, even though the Docs/Drive service is enabled in my Apps domain control panel

Same here.