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Google Drive Desktop – A cross-platform Google Drive desktop app made w Electron

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Post by fireattack »

manigandham wrote: post #26
duxup wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I made the mistake of copying a node project I was working on.... holy cow does Backup and Sync choke on all those tiny JavaScript files. It started syncing and just couldn't stop. I had to delete or move all the Backup and Sync contents across my devices to get to 0 before it quit endlessly thrashing.

Dropbox still has the best sync tech and is the only one that can handle deep and numerous file hierarchies. The rest have better pricing and integrations like email/productivity apps.

Can confirm. I have to move all my node projects to Dropbox for this particular reason.

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Post by PascLeRasc »

judge2020 wrote: post #17
hs86 wrote: post #16

What is the deal with Google's syncing apps? "Backup and Sync" still misses features like Files On-Demand/Smart Sync available in OneDrive/Dropbox and deleting files online pollutes the local trash/recycle bin on macOS/Window computers. "Drive File Stream" actually has these lazily loaded file placeholders, but it is treated like an additionally mounted volume instead of a local folder somewhere on my local disks. It…

They even have a ~~missing features~~ comparison page: https://support.google.com/drive/answer/7638428?hl=en

They've gotten way too enterprise, and I mean that in the worst way possible. Cloud files should always follow the "don't make me think" philosophy and a feature comparison matrix is the polar opposite of that. I guess it's time to look at Dropbox.

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Post by pottertheotter »

hs86 wrote: post #16

What is the deal with Google's syncing apps? "Backup and Sync" still misses features like Files On-Demand/Smart Sync available in OneDrive/Dropbox and deleting files online pollutes the local trash/recycle bin on macOS/Window computers. "Drive File Stream" actually has these lazily loaded file placeholders, but it is treated like an additionally mounted volume instead of a local folder somewhere on my local disks. It…

I switched to Google Drive a while back because I really wanted better photo storage and Dropbox killed that off a while back, plus the Google One account is pretty nice. But I had no idea that Google would be so horrible at syncing files. It's really amazing how poor it is compared to Dropbox.

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Post by saagarjha »

billyhoffman wrote: post #22

... An 18 MB animated GIF embedded in the project home page just to show me a demo video? I suppose that’s on-brand for an Electron app. Snark aside, FFmpeg is your friend and a 1-liner plus a tag will reduce this to less than a MB. Your mobile visitors will thank you!

GitHub doesn't do .

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Post by SanchoPanda »

rd07 wrote: post #25

Still waiting for Google Drive official linux client...

Here you go: https://github.com/jiahaog/nativefier

If you have a setup you like, save it a shell script. You'll have to rerun as google breaks it every six months or so.

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Post by CMay »

This not being an official release from Google, using this is potentially worse than giving someone your Google password without fully vetting it. There are some existing safeguards in place to make a password alone difficult to use, but the app itself would have signed in access to your account and the contents of files. You may think it's simple to watch the app for bad behavior and decide it's safe, but you wouldn't be thinking deviously enough.

Nothing against the developer as they may be trustworthy and honest, but don't make the mistake of assuming that someone bold enough to put out something that requires that much trust must by extension be worth trusting. People too often do.

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Post by cglong »

crazygringo wrote: post #7

It's a cool concept in theory -- I'd always thought I'd like using it. But in practice, I realize I'm addicted to tabs. When working on 3 documents at once, I want them in separate tabs in the same window -- not 3 different windows. Maybe I'm in the minority, but I'm actually at the point where I want things to go in the opposite direction -- just turn all my apps into tabs. (Like Chromebooks, I guess.) Finder? VLC?…

For a while, Windows 10 Insider had a feature called Sets[1], which was exactly what you're describing on a system-wide level; it looked like such a boon to personal productivity.

[1]: https://youtu.be/3lEjuU-XFHg

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