Can someone explain what this adds over Google Drive? More importantly, is it taking anything away? The blog post sure didn't provide that necessary info.
Or the google photos uploader? Backup and sync?
Introducing Backup and Sync for Google Photos and Google Drive
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#12Still, no linux client.
I am mystified as to why Google keeps ignoring Linux especially for Drive. Don't a non-trivial number of Google employees run Linux? It also rules out Drive for company wide deployment if any of the people are using Linux, since they will be excluded.
That is one thing Dropbox at least gets right.
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#13I dont get what's new here or am i confused? I have used many services over the years, OneDrive from Microsoft, Google Drive / Photo sync thing, dropbox, Amazon storage, etc. Honestly being that I work at Microsoft I am obviously going to have a bias a bit, but this stuff is not about my work its about my life and how to stay synced across my Windows Phone, Windows 10 devices (i have a few), my iPhone, my iPad, etc.…
Got a Linux client?
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#14I dont get what's new here or am i confused? I have used many services over the years, OneDrive from Microsoft, Google Drive / Photo sync thing, dropbox, Amazon storage, etc. Honestly being that I work at Microsoft I am obviously going to have a bias a bit, but this stuff is not about my work its about my life and how to stay synced across my Windows Phone, Windows 10 devices (i have a few), my iPhone, my iPad, etc.…
As a non-MS employee, I'd call OneDrive "fine". After several years, I haven't seen anything to suggest that it's better.
I'm not sure why you're confused. It's laid out pretty directly in TFA.
> This new tool replaces the existing Google Photos desktop uploader and Drive for Mac/PC.
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#15This is confusing in so many ways
1. They give no mention of how this handles existing installs of Google Drive or Google Photos Backup.
2. The application has the exact same name for Google Photos and Google Drive. Do I need to download and install both? I tried that, but couldn't move the second to my applications directory without overwriting the first. Looking at the downloads they're the same size, so I'm guessing they're the same, but that begs the question, why the two download links in the blog?
3. Where will photos be saved? I save mine in Google Drive, and choose the option to sync to Google Photos. Will they be stored directly on Google Photos? Because I'd rather keep them on Drive.
I'm still a huge fan of both products, and hope that this cleans up a number of integration issues between both services, but this announcement feels like it wasn't thought through at all.
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#16This is confusing in so many ways 1. They give no mention of how this handles existing installs of Google Drive or Google Photos Backup. 2. The application has the exact same name for Google Photos and Google Drive. Do I need to download and install both? I tried that, but couldn't move the second to my applications directory without overwriting the first. Looking at the downloads they're the same size, so I'm guessi…
1. If you have Google Drive for PC/Mac installed, it will update it to Backup and Sync.
2. The difference in the two endpoints are the defaults selected during the setup wizard (which you can change from either). The Photos versions is geared more towards Photos users and the Drive users more towards Drive.
3. They are saved in Drive, and are synced to Photos. However if you delete in either Drive or Photos cloud, it will affect the other. Whether it is deleted from your hard drive depends on what you have selected in the deletion settings portion.
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#17What surprises me most is the fact that there seems to be very little interest in meta syncing. I have far more files to store than there is capacity on my SSD, and yet, most of the cloud storage providers seem to offer only full or selective sync capabilities. What I would like to have is the ability to browse my entire file repository and "pin" certain files to make sure I can have the most critical stuff offline,…
Look into Drive File Stream.
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#18Because Google Photos does not have an Android TV app, I periodically do a full Google Takeout to pull all my images so that I may rsync newer ones over to my NAS so that they appear in Plex and my wife can then view them on the Google TV.
Can you stop reinventing things that already exist, and perhaps fix things that are real customer pain points.
Like not being able to view Photos on an Android TV, like not being able to use Google Drive or even this new Backup and Sync on Linux... or the big one, the fact that GSuite accounts are crippled and the majority of new products cannot be used by those with GSuite accounts or can only be used in a severely crippled way.
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#19This is confusing in so many ways 1. They give no mention of how this handles existing installs of Google Drive or Google Photos Backup. 2. The application has the exact same name for Google Photos and Google Drive. Do I need to download and install both? I tried that, but couldn't move the second to my applications directory without overwriting the first. Looking at the downloads they're the same size, so I'm guessi…
1. If you have Google Drive for PC/Mac installed, it will update it to Backup and Sync. 2. The difference in the two endpoints are the defaults selected during the setup wizard (which you can change from either). The Photos versions is geared more towards Photos users and the Drive users more towards Drive. 3. They are saved in Drive, and are synced to Photos. However if you delete in either Drive or Photos cloud, it…
Very helpful reply, thank you. However, I still believe they should have outlined this in their Help Center rather than have users figure it out by trial and error.
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#20What surprises me most is the fact that there seems to be very little interest in meta syncing. I have far more files to store than there is capacity on my SSD, and yet, most of the cloud storage providers seem to offer only full or selective sync capabilities. What I would like to have is the ability to browse my entire file repository and "pin" certain files to make sure I can have the most critical stuff offline,…
Look into Drive File Stream.
Looks interesting! Any pointers on how one could actually get it though? :)
At this moment it seems only available for business users who opt in for the early adopter program.
Source: https://gsuite.google.com/campaigns/index__drive-fs-eap.html