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Google Drive detailed: 5 GB of free space, launching next week

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Re: Google Drive detailed: 5 GB of free space, launching next week

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Post by drivebyacct2 »

Elepsis wrote: post #43
drivebyacct2 wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Skydrive is a sad joke that points out how many easy opportunities Microsoft has to leap frog Android and iCloud. They already have a huge cloud platform. They are have millions of Live users. They're finally integrating Live accounts as Windows accounts. They refuse to add dropbox like functionality to SkyDrive to make it possible to just have a set of files synced between all Windows (8, specifically) and WP device…

How about "it's just not out yet"? http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2012/02/20/connecting-you...

edit: It appears I was simply misinformed or working with old information. I had been told at one point in time that Win8 would absolutely not receive dropbox functionality via SkyDrive. This article implies differently.

Re: Google Drive detailed: 5 GB of free space, launching next week

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Post by Tyrant505 »

robomartin wrote: post #21

OK, so now when they suspend your Google account you also get to experience loosing whatever you had in Google Drive. Just for this I am converting my Dropbox account into one of their paid packages to do my part in ensuring they stick around. One would hope that at one point Google might start to realize that the way they are handling accounts could work against their own interests. I --and I am sure others-- have e…

If you have multiple google accounts, do they suspend them as well? If you link them in your gmail I'd imagine it's easy to auto-detect. But this could be a way to be sure your files are safe on one account when other service activity inadvertently suspends your account.

Re: Google Drive detailed: 5 GB of free space, launching next week

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Post by ep103 »

wvenable wrote: post #12
stuartmemo wrote: post #6

My ideal storage solution would be one where I'm not restricted to syncing my own local data. I want to be able to upload it to the cloud then delete it from my HD. This is the mentality I'm used to from Gmail. Everything is archived online and I don't need a local copy. This would surely tie in with the thinking behind the Chromebook?

> Everything is archived online and I don't need a local copy. Even with Gmail, I hope you have a second copy of your data somewhere. You never know when your account might just disappear.

Do you know a good method of going about this? Thunderbird's backup utility (syncing to Gmail, downloading, then saving the thunderbird app data locally) is broken. Each backup / restore via TBird lost another ~350 emails.

Re: Google Drive detailed: 5 GB of free space, launching next week

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Post by ajross »

MatthewPhillips wrote: post #33

What specific problem does this fix for the Google ecosystem? This feels very Microsoftian. Very "we must compete in every market" without good reason.

Google got its start by walking into an existing (and frankly much more mature) market for search and competing with the existing players "without reason". Likewise advertising was pretty well served before they showed up. And I'm pretty sure email predates their dominant platform there, too. I'm not sure what's "Microsoftian" about this in particular, but it's certainly "Googly".

Honestly, this (and a lot of the other posts here) sounds more like sports cheering to me than analysis. Dropbox is part of the "YC team", so their competitors are the bad guys?

Re: Google Drive detailed: 5 GB of free space, launching next week

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Post by [deleted] »

robomartin wrote: post #21

OK, so now when they suspend your Google account you also get to experience loosing whatever you had in Google Drive. Just for this I am converting my Dropbox account into one of their paid packages to do my part in ensuring they stick around. One would hope that at one point Google might start to realize that the way they are handling accounts could work against their own interests. I --and I am sure others-- have e…

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Re: Google Drive detailed: 5 GB of free space, launching next week

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Post by toomuchtodo »

MatthewPhillips wrote: post #33

What specific problem does this fix for the Google ecosystem? This feels very Microsoftian. Very "we must compete in every market" without good reason.

Object storage for end users; still a huge problem to solve, considering Google's missions statement is to organize the world's information.

Re: Google Drive detailed: 5 GB of free space, launching next week

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Post by toomuchtodo »

ep103 wrote: post #53
wvenable wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Everything is archived online and I don't need a local copy. Even with Gmail, I hope you have a second copy of your data somewhere. You never know when your account might just disappear.

Do you know a good method of going about this? Thunderbird's backup utility (syncing to Gmail, downloading, then saving the thunderbird app data locally) is broken. Each backup / restore via TBird lost another ~350 emails.

https://www.backupify.com/

I use it to backup both my personal Gmail account and my Google Apps work account, as well as my Flickr account. Its cost effective, and helps me sleep at night, considering my entire life is stored online.

Re: Google Drive detailed: 5 GB of free space, launching next week

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Post by albertsun »

RuggeroAltair wrote: post #39

Same reason I don't want $everything-facebook I also don't want $everything-google. Plus google has little to zero experience at offering big products on non unix/android platforms. EDIT: I didn't literally mean zero, since I'm writing from Chrome

Err.... Chrome? Google Earth? There are others too.

Re: Google Drive detailed: 5 GB of free space, launching next week

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Post by vibrunazo »

robomartin wrote: post #21

OK, so now when they suspend your Google account you also get to experience loosing whatever you had in Google Drive. Just for this I am converting my Dropbox account into one of their paid packages to do my part in ensuring they stick around. One would hope that at one point Google might start to realize that the way they are handling accounts could work against their own interests. I --and I am sure others-- have e…

After pg posted about it, now the new hot trend is to talk about Goggles customer service, whenever the keyword Google appear in one's sight.

Seriously, we got it a week ago. We all agree their support suck and competitors should aim to do better. It's getting old. Can we change the subject and stay on topic?

Re: Google Drive detailed: 5 GB of free space, launching next week

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Post by toomuchtodo »

blacksmith_tb wrote: post #50
orky56 wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Although it's obviously limited to media files, iTunes Match has probably the most elegant solution to the problem. CrashPlan is also doing a great job for backups via constant syncing with the cloud.

Backblaze works well, too. I never buy anything from Apple, is Match more elegant than Amazon's Cloud Player / Drive?

Backblaze is OK. $5/month for unlimited backups is great, but have you ever had to use their web interface for restores? Argh, its horrible. Also, it doesn't allow you to backup your Applications directory on your Mac. WTF?
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