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My biggest problem with Google Drive is its pricing. Why is your 1TB $100/year, when pretty much every major competitor charges $60? $100/yr would buy me 5TB with Microsoft OneDrive. Even Apple, which usually has crazy margins on everything, gives you 2TB for $10/month.
Maybe one day soon we'll see an official Linux client.
Ok but which Linux? Ubuntu? Fedora? Mint? etc... Which desktop should they integrate with? Gnome? KDE? I suppose they could go the Steam route and only support Ubuntu, but then that would be Ubuntu support, not really Linux support. It would be nice to have at least some support on Linux for sure, but unfortunately deciding to support Linux isn't an answer to a question, it's opening a whole extra big bag full of kno…
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.
If it's backup, it should not work the same way: deletions should not be synced for example.
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.
It also has a lot of bug fixes over the older client.
Because 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 a…
1. Go to Drive online. Go to Settings
2. Enable "Create a Google Photos folder"
3. Download the Backup and Sync client, and sync Google Photos to a place on your computer.
4. Periodically have rsync copy new files to your NAS via a scheduler.
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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.
Linux marketshare is around 1.5%, and I'd speculate those choosing Linux tend to be less willing to trust google/the cloud with their data than average. It's just not worth it when the best-case outcome is indistinguishable from a rounding error,
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It's not going to be easy to just put Google Photos on Android TV. Android TV has no concept of accounts or privacy so the only way it could really work right now is to either open up the entire user's photos to anyone currently using the TV or invent some sort of hard to use scheme such as only displaying photos "tagged" a certain way as public/tv which most people probably won't do. Or they could ask for a PIN each…
Can you cast photos from the Photos app in your phone?
This 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…
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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…
How does that work given that a google Photos has different pricing for compressed photos?
You can elect to upload Photos/Videos in High Quality (which does not consume quota).
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Same here. iCloud comes very close, but it's horribly unreliable, and there is no way to keep it from delete certain files you might still be working with. I had gigabytes to spare, and it deleted a pretty big file while I had it open in Photoshop, I couldn't figure out why Photoshop wouldn't save it, and it was because iCloud had deleted it while I was using it. Now, it's been stuck at uploading 200 files/200 for ab…
How did that even happen? Had you not saved the file recently? iCloud chooses what to delete based on size and last access. If you were working on the file and had saved it at least once, it would be impossible for it to delete it.