There is the personal and business personal version and then the workspace version. I’d appreciate more content in the future about this powerful platform. Thank you! I appreciate this content on the Google Suites, Leo. There are so many advantages to it, free, cross, platform, collaborative. Like all, it’s got its quirks though. There is the personal and business personal version and then the workspace version. I’d appreciate more content in the future about this powerful platform. Thank you!
Google Drive support files as: xlsx, docx and pptx. Theses files can be modified on the Google web with respectively g docs, g sheets and g slides. This is nice to know!
Thank you for this educational video. I have been using Google Drive for a long time. When I installed Google Drive, I also installed Google Documents and there are entries about Google Documents in the Windows right click menu. I want to get rid of them but I haven't figured out how to do it yet. Maybe you or those who read this comment can suggest a solution.
Google Drive is not just for storage. Google Drive OCRs files on Google Drive on the web. Using Google Drive through a browser lets you do amazing searches. Example: as a genealogist I have German Catholic church documents written in the hard-to-read German script. I can do a surname search of these documents and it will provide search results in seconds.
Thanks for the great information! How is renaming a file handled; is it considered a delete-then-create, or to these sync tools have a concept of rename? Specifically, if I have a file, "foo", with much history (such that previous versions can be recovered) and I rename it to "bar", then copy "bar" to "foo", does the history for the original "foo" become the history for "bar", since the file was simply renamed? Does renaming work the same in Google Drive as in OneDrive? If Google Drive is set up in"Streaming" mode, and you're offline, does that mean the G: drive is not available?
Maybe some clarification? I thought Google Drive desktop application could be downloaded from one of the Google signed in pages, right now not remember exactly where.
More confusion about documents like spreadsheets put into Drive. In case we like to use Google Drive for alternate off-site cloud storage, then if we lose the file on our computer (which is to never be stored just in Drive), then we might need to use the safely(?) kept file still in Google Drive in cloud. So can we download the file to our computer, and will it no longer be the xls, or xlxs format?
xls and xlsx files are NOT transformed by Google Drive. They're just stored and synchronized. It's only Google-native "sheets" and "docs" and such that Drive treats weirdly because they're online only.
As always, thanks, Leo. 😊 So you can download G. Drive to your PC; fantastic, however, the Docs, Sheets, etc. with in that G. Drive, still live in the cloud. 🤔. I'm wondering whether it might be easier to instal Libre Office and save a copy in Google Drive on my desktop that will sync to the cloud?
One thing is bothersome. DOC file, and any "SHEETS" file, if we create some spreadsheet or some wordprocess file on our computer, what happens if we decide to store it in our Google Drive? Does Google Drive change it into something else?
If it's a FILE you create on your computer (say a Microsoft Word .docx file), then it's just a file and Google Drive doesn't do anything other than store and synchonize. A "sheets" file is Google sheets, and those exist ONLY online in Google Drive. If you want that to be on your PC and treated like a normal file, use a .xlsx file instead.
Microsoft made made One Drive intentionally confusing. Explaining how it works could have been easily done if they wanted to. They want people to overload their space and start paying for it. A subscription fee to continue getting Windows updates is next. Have fun!..
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There is the personal and business personal version and then the workspace version. I’d appreciate more content in the future about this powerful platform. Thank you! I appreciate this content on the Google Suites, Leo. There are so many advantages to it, free, cross, platform, collaborative. Like all, it’s got its quirks though. There is the personal and business personal version and then the workspace version. I’d appreciate more content in the future about this powerful platform. Thank you!
Google Drive support files as: xlsx, docx and pptx. Theses files can be modified on the Google web with respectively g docs, g sheets and g slides. This is nice to know!
Thank you for this educational video. I have been using Google Drive for a long time. When I installed Google Drive, I also installed Google Documents and there are entries about Google Documents in the Windows right click menu. I want to get rid of them but I haven't figured out how to do it yet. Maybe you or those who read this comment can suggest a solution.
You fairly "drove" that one home, Leo LOL. Superb video btw.
Google Drive is not just for storage. Google Drive OCRs files on Google Drive on the web. Using Google Drive through a browser lets you do amazing searches. Example: as a genealogist I have German Catholic church documents written in the hard-to-read German script. I can do a surname search of these documents and it will provide search results in seconds.
I rely on Google Drive regularly to transfer files between my PC and my Pixel phone. It's much less bother than connecting the two with a USB cable.
You gave in and gave them all your data. :( I agree, it would be much easier but maybe consider degoogling that Pixel phone and put GrapheneOS on it.
Thanks for the great information!
How is renaming a file handled; is it considered a delete-then-create, or to these sync tools have a concept of rename? Specifically, if I have a file, "foo", with much history (such that previous versions can be recovered) and I rename it to "bar", then copy "bar" to "foo", does the history for the original "foo" become the history for "bar", since the file was simply renamed? Does renaming work the same in Google Drive as in OneDrive?
If Google Drive is set up in"Streaming" mode, and you're offline, does that mean the G: drive is not available?
It'd be good to have a video on Prton drive for comparison.
Maybe some clarification? I thought Google Drive desktop application could be downloaded from one of the Google signed in pages, right now not remember exactly where.
More confusion about documents like spreadsheets put into Drive. In case we like to use Google Drive for alternate off-site cloud storage, then if we lose the file on our computer (which is to never be stored just in Drive), then we might need to use the safely(?) kept file still in Google Drive in cloud. So can we download the file to our computer, and will it no longer be the xls, or xlxs format?
xls and xlsx files are NOT transformed by Google Drive. They're just stored and synchronized. It's only Google-native "sheets" and "docs" and such that Drive treats weirdly because they're online only.
As always, thanks, Leo. 😊
So you can download G. Drive to your PC; fantastic, however, the Docs, Sheets, etc. with in that G. Drive, still live in the cloud. 🤔.
I'm wondering whether it might be easier to instal Libre Office and save a copy in Google Drive on my desktop that will sync to the cloud?
I'm curious about privacy and security. What does Google use for storage and file transfer?
I'm not really sure what you're asking. They're using their servers and their software, but that seems a little obvious?
One thing is bothersome. DOC file, and any "SHEETS" file, if we create some spreadsheet or some wordprocess file on our computer, what happens if we decide to store it in our Google Drive? Does Google Drive change it into something else?
If it's a FILE you create on your computer (say a Microsoft Word .docx file), then it's just a file and Google Drive doesn't do anything other than store and synchonize. A "sheets" file is Google sheets, and those exist ONLY online in Google Drive. If you want that to be on your PC and treated like a normal file, use a .xlsx file instead.
So you don't use the Microsoft default folders but you use Google's cloud? Can you explain?
Yes: Google's cloud doesn't muck about with its folders the way OneDrive does. See my video on OneDrive's broken backup feature.
Microsoft made made One Drive intentionally confusing. Explaining how it works could have been easily done if they wanted to. They want people to overload their space and start paying for it. A subscription fee to continue getting Windows updates is next. Have fun!..
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