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, while other files would be streamed when I need them.
I kind of hoped that SpaceMonkey (now Vivint Smart Drive) would be the answer for me and have one sitting right here. It's a a pretty cool device in theory, but in practice, it is extremely slow, backed by a company that could not care less about the product it has acquired.
Then there is Dropbox Smart Sync. This seems promising, but only is available for business users. I don't have any experiences with it.
Still looking for one single product to this right. Am I the only one frustrated with this?
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 about a week.
I got an S8 in April and between 4k video and shooting in raw I was able to hit 40 gigs a few weeks ago. It is nice to be able to have it all stored off the phone at full rez.
I did have one issue over the 4th. I visited family who did not have wifi and had a heated ceiling which consisted of a few thousand feet of copper cabling. We were 2000ft from a 4g tower but the wires made a decent faraday cage so I had to go outside to show them family photos. I doubt anyone will have the same issue but it did show me what the photos app would feel like without cell data.
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
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.
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.
Update: oh the blog actually writes it is an replacement. Great... now I don't know if this works in any way with Insync in parallel :(
Since they can't even reliably sync the Drive folders they claim they can, who would trust their "backup" of the rest of the system?
My team found it unreliable for much smaller directories as well. 6 people, 6 independently unhappy with it. It was only on a conference call when we realized we were looking at different copies of files that we all complained of the same symptoms. Anecdote rather than data, I admit, but it's disturbing that each of us silently assumed we were the only ones having trouble.
(FWIW we stuck to google for realtime shared docs, but moved to DB for general file storage, including spreadsheets and presentations)
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 knotty questions.
Until that issue gets sorted out in Linux land, providing first class Linux support in any professional, commercial grade application or service is going to be problematic.
(I mean, Drive already has versioning, so this adds... an explicit form of versioning?)
Oh, and where's our Linux client?! Gnome's Drive support is awful. It just locks up Nautilus half the time.
That is one thing Dropbox at least gets right.
http://www.webupd8.org/2015/01/official-google-drive-linux-c...
It's just not worth it when the best-case outcome is indistinguishable from a rounding error,
I ran the install, and it appears that the main difference (other than UI) is that you can easily add other folders from your computer to your Drive now.
It also has a lot of bug fixes over the older client.
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.
Solving that issue is going to take a re-work of the Android TV user experience. A lot of apps have this problem such as Drive, Dropbox, Docs, etc. There's no current way to have an app with personal data be usable on a public device like a TV.
>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.
You have to remember that GSuite, as an app for businesses and education, has a lot more restraints and big hairy legal and ethical issues for every single feature than the consumer versions of the apps. Each thing Google makes needs to be looked at from a very different angle and lots of decisions have to be made for it to be made available for business use. The use cases are very different. Money is handled differently. Lots of access controls need to be created for admins in each app available in GSuite. It's not a trivial amount of work.
1,022 comments about a single aspect of the G Suite account restriction, relating to a single Google product (Play Music)... in this 1 thread alone.
Doesn't seem that specific and isolated to me.
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.
1. Copy photos from memory card to a NAS. 2. Upload the photos to Google drive using skicka.
I've got a script to simplify this, so in reality the workflow just consists of inserting the memory card and running the script. The photos then appear in Google Photos fairly quickly afterwards. I use this for both jpg and nef. I've been pretty impressed with how good Photos is at handling nef files.
Skicka: https://github.com/google/skicka
It might have been because there were actually no files taking up the extra space, but losing all my pictures because my CC didn't work and they don't have their $1.99 or being paranoid that that might happen is not worth it.
https://support.google.com/drive/answer/2736362?hl=en "If you cancel your storage plan or when your storage plan expires, your storage limits will reset to the free levels for each product at the end of your billing cycle. Everything in Google Drive, Google Photos, and Gmail will still be accessible, but you won't be able to create or add anything new over the free storage limit. If you reach or exceed the free storage limit"
Don't a lot of people archive terabytes of stuff and just leave after 1 month, though?
This actually describe the problem a lot of people have without providing a solution. Uploading, Syncing doesn't fix this. How are we going to sort and manage all these files that are scattered in difference medium in the first place? Do we Copy all of them to our PC / Mac? And then Manually sort through all these files, before uploading to Google Cloud?
What if my 256/ 512 GB SSD couldn't fit all these files I have laying around? How am i support to sort through all these files over the last decade if i dont have them stored in the first place?
$100/yr would buy me 5TB with Microsoft OneDrive.
Even Apple, which usually has crazy margins on everything, gives you 2TB for $10/month.
I'm happy to pay for the storage but I need a Linux client. I'd write one myself with a song in my heart, but Google keeps obfuscating this stuff for no good reason.
Yeah, they only become trapped on Google's servers.
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. and the best way i have found to do all of that is with OneDrive.
Hold on, i know what you're thinking that im just picking my companies product, but honestly i tried them all, a lot over the years and OneDrive just does a great job, has first class apps for iOS, Android, Windows and powerful Web UI for when i just need to jump in and find something.
Also you get 5 gigs for free with OneDrive. Move up to 50GB and its $1.99/mo.
On top of that I use an Office 365 subscription for my personal life (custom domain/email) and again i get a ton more storage through that.
Really worth giving it a try!
Plus having it forced on me through Windows makes me instantly hate it.
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.
