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Gmail and Drive - a new way to send files

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Re: Gmail and Drive - a new way to send files

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Post by telcodud »

csmatt wrote: post #28

It's about time! I use Google's cloud-based services for as much as I can, but it's still not seamless and is annoying when I have to open a new window to access a service run by the same company providing the one in the page I'm on. Next step: Please allow me to easily save PDF's and other documents directly to Drive from a URL. I shouldn't have to download a file to my device and then upload it to drive.

If you use cloudprint (link: http://www.google.com/cloudprint), you can already save PDFs or any other URL directly to Google Drive. I use this all the time to save online confirmations, receipts, etc.

Re: Gmail and Drive - a new way to send files

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Post by zalew »

guelo wrote: post #15

Totally off topic but blogspot is just awful. Why does everything have to be a complicated buggy JavaScript app? There's nothing wrong with serving up good ol HTML pages, especially for simple text and images content like a blog.

these blogspot dynamic themes are a pile of turd. they even override some key binds which redirect to other posts. overengineered piece of crap. google groups are barely usable too. haven't used a slower mailing list since I was on dialup. ctrl+click? forget it.

Re: Gmail and Drive - a new way to send files

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Post by jeffool »

guelo wrote: post #15

Totally off topic but blogspot is just awful. Why does everything have to be a complicated buggy JavaScript app? There's nothing wrong with serving up good ol HTML pages, especially for simple text and images content like a blog.

I have to admit, despite generally being a Google fan, I find a little humor in the fact that my Android phone can't read half their Google blogs. They open, but they won't let me scroll down. I have to stop a page before it loads completely (before it loads SOME element) if I want to be able to scroll. Makes me glad Blogspot is irrelevant to me.

Re: Gmail and Drive - a new way to send files

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Post by nilved »

tedmiston wrote: post #18

A welcome feature, but we can't ignore the paradigm shift's tiny repercussion: once the sender deletes the file, the receiver will no longer be able to access it (assuming they've lost, deleted, or not yet downloaded their own copy). Lately I've used shared Dropbox folder links for larger attachments, but the same problem seems to persist with any hosted solution. A solution that pleases both the sender having contro…

> A solution that pleases both the sender having control over their files and the receiver having long-term access is tough to imagine.

It's that paradoxical? Having control of the file means being able to revoke access to it. If the viewer has long-term access, the owner doesn't have control.

Re: Gmail and Drive - a new way to send files

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Post by Sidnicious »

yason wrote: post #11

This is how email could work too. The sender would host it (by himself or in cloud) and the recipients go fetch it when they want to read it. Updates and comment threads all collect into the same place. No spam either since nobody would be pushing tens of megabytes of messages to your inbox.

It’s cool in a lot of ways, but there are two big disadvantages over traditional attachments:

- The recipient doesn’t get a static copy of the file to keep alongside the email.

- The sender’s responsible for keeping the file available until the recipient has seen/saved it.

Re: Gmail and Drive - a new way to send files

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Post by radarsat1 »

zacharycohn wrote: post #25
WayneDB wrote: post #21

I never liked the idea of hosting my own files on someone else's server (Dropbox) or sending them through a middle-man. That's why i just run my own "cloud" on my own premises. If I want to give someone access to a file, I just throw it on my Synology DiskStation and the receiver can get at it via FTP or HTTP client.

That's not a "cloud," that's just a server. There's an important difference, and people need to stop using them interchangeably.

What is the difference?

Re: Gmail and Drive - a new way to send files

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Post by obituary_latte »

guelo wrote: post #15

Totally off topic but blogspot is just awful. Why does everything have to be a complicated buggy JavaScript app? There's nothing wrong with serving up good ol HTML pages, especially for simple text and images content like a blog.

Came here to post something similar.

Not only do I have to disable no-script to see any content, but then the page usurps my back button taking me somewhere I don't want to go.

For a company that makes neato flip-book-web3.0-page-turny stuff so well, they sure do fall flat on the blog thing.

Re: Gmail and Drive - a new way to send files

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Post by Nitramp »

tonfa wrote: post #22
tedmiston wrote: post #18

A welcome feature, but we can't ignore the paradigm shift's tiny repercussion: once the sender deletes the file, the receiver will no longer be able to access it (assuming they've lost, deleted, or not yet downloaded their own copy). Lately I've used shared Dropbox folder links for larger attachments, but the same problem seems to persist with any hosted solution. A solution that pleases both the sender having contro…

Can you make a copy in google drive?

Yes, File->Create a copy.

Re: Gmail and Drive - a new way to send files

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Post by hackmiester »

guelo wrote: post #15

Totally off topic but blogspot is just awful. Why does everything have to be a complicated buggy JavaScript app? There's nothing wrong with serving up good ol HTML pages, especially for simple text and images content like a blog.

I can't scroll down with the space bar. This makes me unreasonably angry.
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