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

Post by duxup » Sat, May 16, 2020, 3:37 AM UTC

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.

Post by crazygringo » Sat, May 16, 2020, 4:06 AM UTC

philsnow wrote: post #21

Yet another way that Google's branding creates confusion. I read "Google drive desktop app" and my mind jumped to storage / files, not word processor. In my mind, "Google drive" is storage, "Google docs" is word processing / spreadsheets etc. I have no idea why they brought docs into drive.

Post by seph-reed » Sat, May 16, 2020, 4:40 AM UTC

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?…

Post by em500 » Sat, May 16, 2020, 5:19 AM UTC

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?…

Post by manigandham » Sat, May 16, 2020, 5:42 AM UTC

pottertheotter wrote: post #33

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.