Fabled Google Drive Won't Be Another Dropbox

Re:Fabled Google Drive Won't Be Another Dropbox by sinkercat on Thursday February 09, 2012 @03:20PM (#3572865)

No, Amazon Cloud Drive and Microsoft SkyDrive do not have shell integration. You need to upload using a browser.

Hopefully, Google Drive will be similar to Dropbox wherein, you will have a G-Drive directory in your hard disk. Microsoft has a similar product too - it is called Live Mesh.

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Re:Fabled Google Drive Won't Be Another Dropbox by JBiserkov on Thursday February 09, 2012 @04:12PM (#3573092)

There IS Skydrive shell integration:

-you can easily mount a Skydrive folder and Office will recognize the file originated from Skydrive and show relevant information (e.g. other editing the file)

-Office 2010 has a 'Save to Web' function

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Re:Fabled Google Drive Won't Be Another Dropbox by shadowfox on Thursday February 09, 2012 @07:22PM (#3573884)

I am curious how to mount Skydrive. All the approaches I have seen rely on unofficial tools which seem to have stopped working about 6 months back.

It would be great if you know of something that still works.

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Re:Fabled Google Drive Won't Be Another Dropbox by moe on Thursday February 09, 2012 @05:30PM (#3573428)

And on a Mac? Linux?

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Re:Fabled Google Drive Won't Be Another Dropbox by pyre on Thursday February 09, 2012 @05:42PM (#3573486)

I'm unsure how this comment is helpful. The conversation goes like this:

  Person 1: Microsoft SkyDrive doesn't have shell
            support. It's browser-only.
  Person 2: Sure it has shell support, but it's
            Windows-only.
  Person 3: But it's not *CROSS-PLATFORM* shell
            support!

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman

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Re:Fabled Google Drive Won't Be Another Dropbox by wbkang on Thursday February 09, 2012 @06:27PM (#3573676)

There is a Mac version and technically you can use their official API for Linux as well.

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