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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 pasbesoin »

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.

Agreed.

When I feel compelled to read such a page, I haul it up from Google's cache. (Firefox has an extension to click-ify that. And, fortunately, Google cache functionality is not all ueber-Javascripted -- yet.)

To cut to the chase: These templates are designed for the sake of Google, not users.

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

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Post by dmd »

brettkw wrote: post #88
paulirish wrote: post #82

I've been dogfooding the "Gmail will double-check that your recipients all have access to any files you’re sending" feature for a month now and it's FANTASTIC. If you use Google Docs a lot, this saves so much permission pingpong.

Honestly Gmail's new features never cease to amaze me. Their new compose box is a good example. Initially it was terrible for me as I frequently send from other email addresses but within a week they had removed a click or two and now it's perfect.

I'm very impressed with how fast that other-email-address UI issue was fixed.

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

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Post by tedmiston »

nilved wrote: post #35
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.

I agree with your statement. I should be more precise: the gap will appear in the layman's approach. For example, A: "Hey remember that file you sent me a while ago? I can't access it anymore." B: "Oh, I deleted it." A: "But I thought it was an attachment?" B: "Well..."

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

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Post by eccoli »

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 don't care why, as I browse with javascript disabled I just end up on a blank page and move on to something else.

I suggest both you readers and users of blogspot do the same.

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

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Post by eccoli »

Achshar wrote: post #46
radarsat1 wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What is the difference?

I believe cloud by definition means third party, but something like the host wont know what it is storing, just who accesses it. So in OP's case if his computer is shutdown, the server wont be able to serve the file, but if it is on "cloud" there is a lot less chance of downtime and greater latency as "cloud" can have multiple data centers around the globe to server same file.

I believe it's worse than that.

Since as long as I remember and probably even before that, when explaining networking to executives, marketing and other technically challenged people, we use drawings. In these drawings the part representing the internet is for some reason drawn as a cloud, probably to convey that some magic we don't want to get into the deatils happens there.

Now you've got it, the cloud, a.k.a. the internet symbol for ignorant people.

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Post by hackmiester »

snogglethorpe wrote: post #70
hackmiester wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

hmmm, scrolling-with-space works for me... You have to make sure the article body has the keyboard focus first though (e.g. by clicking somewhere on the text); it would be nice if they'd somehow arrange for that to happen by default...

I clicked on the article what felt like 100 times and it still didn't get focus.

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

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Post by kissickas »

dannyr wrote: post #47
kissickas wrote: post #44

> Now with Drive, you can insert files up to 10GB Hmm, how much space do I have in there now? 0% of 5 GB used... Now it makes sense.

You can pay and get more space.

Sorry for the late reply... that is what I was implying. They are offering this to sell more storage space.
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