Google Drive Desktop – A cross-platform Google Drive desktop app made w Electron

Re:Google Drive Desktop – A cross-platform Google Drive desk... by pottertheotter on Friday May 15, 2020 @11:01PM (#23200106)

I switched to Google Drive a while back because I really wanted better photo storage and Dropbox killed that off a while back, plus the Google One account is pretty nice. But I had no idea that Google would be so horrible at syncing files. It's really amazing how poor it is compared to Dropbox.

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Re:Google Drive Desktop – A cross-platform Google Drive desk... by manigandham on Saturday May 16, 2020 @01:42AM (#23200789)

Dropbox has spent a decade on solving a single problem and that shows in the product experience, even though it's more costly and has less extra features like email and productivity apps.

Their blog posts explain why they're so much better:

https://dropbox.tech/infrastructure/rewriting-the-heart-of-o...

https://dropbox.tech/infrastructure/-testing-our-new-sync-en...

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Re:Google Drive Desktop – A cross-platform Google Drive desk... by imagetic on Saturday May 16, 2020 @04:10PM (#23206805)

I did the same, and then it really just wasn't a great tool. And backing out of a fully populated Google Drive was a complex process.

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