Don’t offer a 2TB option if you can’t manage a tenth of that data on the client app. I have had Backup and sync sit there for 12 hours “Refreshing” while it tries to match up it’s local and remote indexes. By the way, anything over 100GB in Google drive sucks big time when you try to sync that to your local drive. So now I’m going to just spend the next few weeks migrating that 2TB to dropbox, because their app doesn’t keep unraveling itself by developers that do not use the product. And I’m sick of people trying to convince me I’m using it wrong. This is the third iteration of Google drive and the app has only gotten worse. Neither one seems to be syncing with the online version and they are different from one another. Also, Google Drive is showing as an item on my Desktop and also as a folder in my Documents (Windows 8). I protect my data by making sure it’s not all available at any given time and there is an application (Backup and sync or google drive) in the way to hide what I value. Why arent they in the drive, even though I save them to it I cant even find them in the downloaded Google Drive folder. Then imagine my kid accidentally clicks the wrong link and now we come back from vacation to find 2TB of Drive data is now encrypted with ransomware. Imagine if I have 2 TB in Drive, and only need 20-100 GB locally at any given time. I have a 2TB account that’s almost full and I this new approach to making me make all the files available means I can’t protect my archived drive files from a malicious program on my computer. I don’t want to “stream” them, because I don’t want an app like antivirus, or file indexer to burn through all bandwidth to stream files in my google drive when I do a search or want to grep through a the google drive local folder. I want to only sync certain folders to my computer. After investigating, it turned out they needed to download the latest version to resolve problems connecting or syncing.ĭo you have a Google Drive tip? Drop it in the comments. Another favorite tutorial you should review is how to integrate Drive with applications such as Microsoft Office if you want to set it up as your default location for saved documents.įinal note, a few users mentioned that they didn’t have these Sync features. If you are new to Google Drive, check out our other articles on setting up the Google Drive Client. Check only the folders you wish to sync.Ĭlick Apply, then Continue to confirm changes. Select the Sync Options tab, then choose the Sync only these folders radio box. On OS X, click the Drive icon on the menu bar. Proceed to right-click the Google Drive icon in the Notification area, click the elliptical menu, then click Preferences. For Mac users, you can find the Drive icon under Finder > Applications. If it does not appear there, click Start > All Apps > Google Drive > Drive. Right-click the Google Drive icon in the Notification area. Select the Folders You Want Sync in Google Driveįirst, make sure you are signed into Google Drive.

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