Google Drive for PC and Mac shutting down

SlinkyMike said:
Back to Dropbox then. I use the Finder integration for Google Drive daily.
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The service will be replaced by a unified cloud storage client called Backup and Sync, which includes all the features in Google Drive.
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They will wrap up the service into a more inclusive package, like they do with near every other service they have.
 
Is this just the apps or the whole google drive? The article is not clear on that
 
SlinkyMike said:
That's fine as long as there is desktop integration.
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It would be really stupid not to have desktop integration but they'll probably then foist a whole raft of spam apps on us just to get drive.
 
What was/is wrong with it?I'm getting old and have no time for all these changes(cosmetic,marketing or otherwise),why not simply call the damn thing a upgrade and let it be a smooth transition into...whatever they call it...backup and sync?
 
siraman said:
What was/is wrong with it?I'm getting old and have no time for all these changes(cosmetic,marketing or otherwise),why not simply call the damn thing a upgrade and let it be a smooth transition into...whatever they call it...backup and sync?
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But then people wouldn`t panic and click on it.
 
siraman said:
What was/is wrong with it?I'm getting old and have no time for all these changes(cosmetic,marketing or otherwise),why not simply call the damn thing a upgrade and let it be a smooth transition into...whatever they call it...backup and sync?
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It is a smooth transition. It just upgraded my Drive client and even named the shortcut "Google Drive for PC is now Backup and Sync from Google"...
 
backstreetboy said:
It is a smooth transition. It just upgraded my Drive client and even named the shortcut "Google Drive for PC is now Backup and Sync from Google"...
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Great! Let me get on with the times then,just hate change for the sake of change.
 
Ok not too sure if i understood properly but i hope they are not entirely killing Google Drive at some point
 
SlinkyMike said:
Back to Dropbox then. I use the Finder integration for Google Drive daily.
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Samayanaya said:
Is this just the apps or the whole google drive? The article is not clear on that
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Drive isn't going away, to clarify things (an article for NAG I wrote will go into this). Google is swapping out the syncing mechanisms and replacing them with the placeholder technology they've been working on. Placeholder files replace the standard files we all have when we start the syncing process, and there'll be a way to switch from the files and folders on your PC being placeholders or the full digital versions.

Essentially, a few hundred gigs worth of files on drive will only take up less than 50MB of storage on your drive if none of them are synced to your device. They'll stay in the cloud.

siraman said:
What was/is wrong with it?I'm getting old and have no time for all these changes(cosmetic,marketing or otherwise),why not simply call the damn thing a upgrade and let it be a smooth transition into...whatever they call it...backup and sync?
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The old Drive sync client had some oddities when it came to crossing platforms, and Google had errors when trying to implement differential versioning across NTFS, ETX4, and Apple file systems. Drive File Stream and the new Backup and Sync client fixes this, and makes cross-platform file sharing much more reliable.

kianm said:
Ok not too sure if i understood properly but i hope they are not entirely killing Google Drive at some point
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Drive continues, it'll just be called something different on the desktop app you use.
 
Slootvreter said:
So not accessible offline :/
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Offline as well. You just right-click the file/folder and select "Make available offline". The difference is that thanks to the placeholders, you still can navigate up and down the entire file structure offline, make changes offline, and have those changes sync later on when you connect to the internet again.
 
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