Google Drive

Terrier_Jimlad said:
Got my activation through earlier, upgraded to the extra 25gb package for $30/year now have 30gb storage and the extra boost to gmail was welcome, now from 9gb to 30gb also. Installed the desktop app on to Win 7 x64 box with no issues and works a treat. Just waiting for the iOS App to be released and will migrate away from Dropbox.

As someone mentioned earlier, looks like the launch is slowing download/upload speeds due to the sheer number of users. Hopefully this will calm down over the next few weeks.
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So functionality wise you see it on par with Dropbox? Can you confirm:-
a) You can assign any directory/folder as the folder to sync online with (and all files/children within it)?
b) You can click on a tray icon (like dropbox) and a standard windows folder opens up (the designated shared folder?) which you can work in?
c) You can run the application on multiple PCs and like dropbox share the online storage/files?

Personally not interested in accessing the sync'd data over a browser, only via the windows folder, just like dropbox.
 
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NeilFawcett said:
So functionality wise you see it on par with Dropbox? Can you confirm:-
a) You can assign any directory/folder as the folder to sync online with (and all files/children within it)?
b) You can click on a tray icon (like dropbox) and a standard windows folder opens up (the designated shared folder?) which you can work in?
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a) Not that I can see yet, installing the Desktop App puts a "Google Drive" directory within your user directory c:\users\*username*\google drive\ and that is the folder that sync and displays your files

b) Yes, small tray icon (that is animated when sync'n) allows you to open the folder and other stuff

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You can assign what ever folders that are on Google Drive to sync with your computer. For example on your laptop you might only want your Docs, and not music that you've got stored online.

I don't have anything on mine, but under preferences is where you would select the folders you'd want to sync from Drive.

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And you can assign any folder or directory on your PC as the main directory, you don't have to use the Google Drive sync folder that it creates as standard, but you can only do this when you sign into the application. You can't change this on the fly, but I suppose you could just create symbolic links from other folders to the Google Drives sync folder, and do it like that. So it's not a massive issue really. :)
 
Azza said:
You can assign any some folders that are on Google Drive to sync with your computer. For example on your laptop you might only want your Docs, and not music that you've got stored online.


And you can assign any folder or directory on your PC as the main directory, you don't have to use the Google Drive folder that it creates as standard, but you can only do this when you sign into the application.
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So that sounds like it basically matches Dropbox's abilities then!?

Any idea if it keeps backup versions of your files like Dropbox?
 
Azza said:
And you can assign any folder or directory on your PC as the main directory, you don't have to use the Google Drive sync folder that it creates as standard, but you can only do this when you sign into the application. You can't change this on the fly, but I suppose you could just create symbolic links from other folders to the Google Drives sync folder, and do it like that. So it's not a massive issue really. :)
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Found it now yes, but when I signed back in, it wanted me to chose a different folder as the Google Drive folder wasn't empty? Had to delete the files in there, then chose the same folder and it pulled them back down again, so word of warning I wouldn't change it very often :D

Enjoying it so far, just hoping the 98% complete iOS app appears very shortly!
 
NeilFawcett said:
So that sounds like it basically matches Dropbox's abilities then!?

Any idea if it keeps backup versions of your files like Dropbox?
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It sure does. Google Drive keeps current and previous versions of files. Automatically deleting previous versions only when they're older than 30 days or there are more than 100 previous versions of the same file.

https://support.google.com/drive/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2375120&topic=2460010&ctx=topic



Think it might take a bit of time to come into effect of your Google Drive though, as it hasn't done it instantly on mine, but yeah it does keep previous versions.
 
Terrier_Jimlad said:
Found it now yes, but when I signed back in, it wanted me to chose a different folder as the Google Drive folder wasn't empty? Had to delete the files in there, then chose the same folder and it pulled them back down again, so word of warning I wouldn't change it very often :D

Enjoying it so far, just hoping the 98% complete iOS app appears very shortly!
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Weird, like I said I hadn't actually uploaded anything to mine. Will give it a go now and see what happens.
 
i don't think i'll bother with this. i prefer dropbox for sharing files because you can save it to your public folder and get a URL right from the context menu in explorer. for files i don't want to share, i get 25GB for free with skydrive.
 
Terrier_Jimlad said:
Found it now yes, but when I signed back in, it wanted me to chose a different folder as the Google Drive folder wasn't empty? Had to delete the files in there, then chose the same folder and it pulled them back down again, so word of warning I wouldn't change it very often :D

Enjoying it so far, just hoping the 98% complete iOS app appears very shortly!
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Azza said:
Weird, like I said I hadn't actually uploaded anything to mine. Will give it a go now and see what happens.
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Hmmm that's a bit of a strange feature to be honest, because it means you'll then have to go downloading everything again from Google Drive.


marc2003 said:
i don't think i'll bother with this. i prefer dropbox for sharing files because you can save it to your public folder and get a URL right from the context menu in explorer. for files i don't want to share, i get 25GB for free with skydrive.
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Indeed, I doubt I'll use at all to be honest, well not for anything important. That's what DropBox and SkyDrive are for. :)
 
marc2003 said:
i don't think i'll bother with this. i prefer dropbox for sharing files because you can save it to your public folder and get a URL right from the context menu in explorer. for files i don't want to share, i get 25GB for free with skydrive.
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That 25gb is getting dropped to 7gb unless you opt in, so for current users of DB/SkyDrive there might not be much incentive to move, but for new users of "the cloud" then Google might just swing it. For me, it depends how much integration there is with iOS apps, a lot of apps are already integrated with dropbox so we'll see how much power Google has :D
 
Out of interest, Wuala have just upped their free basic allowance from 2GB to 5GB, no doubt in response to Google Drive... full client-side encryption, a nice desktop application, and unlike Google Drive, SkyDrive or Dropbox you're not confined to a single base folder for syncing purposes. :)
 
With SkyDrive through the website the limit is 300mb, through your desktop with the client it's 2GB.
 
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