Google Drive Becoming “Sync” and “Backup”

Re:Google Drive Becoming “Sync” and “Backup” by guelo on Thursday September 07, 2017 @07:14PM (#15196645)

Ugh. I pay Google for extra Drive storage but this is going to prompt me to switch back to Dropbox. I have no idea if this new product is going to screw up the way I have things carefully setup.

Google products are always so mysterious and opaque, with little to awful documentation, and little to no configurability or programmability. I'm sick and tired of them.

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Re:Google Drive Becoming “Sync” and “Backup” by dragonwriter on Thursday September 07, 2017 @07:33PM (#15196745)

From the actual descriptions in the various articles (including the Backup and Sync help pages, and the July announcement of Backup and Sync availability), “Backup and Sync” is basically a rename of the Drive desktop app, with more configurability of sync-ing behavior (locations, handling of deletions, etc.)

See, especially, https://support.google.com/drive/answer/2374987?co=GENIE.Pla...

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