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Google drive is terrible for shared directory structures. it's not that box is better than drive, everyone is better than drive at organizing files

xapata 10y ago
I'm fed up with complex director y hierarchies. Namespaces are cool and all, but flat is better than nested.
- enraged_camel 10y ago
  Flatness can result in much more overwhelming complexity.
  - xapata 10y ago
    I suppose that depends on what you mean by complexity. I prefer lists to trees, in general. After I reorganized my Dropbox into only 1 layer of folders, I've found it much easier to navigate. But hey, that's just my anecdote.
- r00fus 10y ago
  Drive is needlessly complex. On my laptop I have folder structures. In zip files and tarballs you have structure. You even get hierarchy in a CD. Trying to find your way around Drive (esp. when sharing between enterprises) is a nightmare for me. Google could cement some really good mindshare if they made shared folders/docs more intuitive.
robszumski 10y ago
I don't get why you simply can't list all of the folders that are shared with the entire Google Apps domain.
user5994461 10y ago
+1 for drive having the worst organization of all doc tools currently in existence. Give me a windows remote shared directory, a sharepoint, a dropbox, just anything that would let me work. Drive is only good at making a single isolated file and sharing that file over gmail. It is lacking notions of structured and shared folders. No thought was given to sharing documents across the company/teams/services, EXCEPT to make a single document sent by email.
pritambarhate 10y ago
Yes +1 Google drive is terrible for organising files in folders. And when multiple people share files with you daily if becomes even worse. I have given up on it. Now I just use search, which works most of the time, especially if I remember at least one word in the file title. But sometimes relevancy and order of search results seems to screwed up.

xapata 10y ago

I'm fed up with complex director y hierarchies. Namespaces are cool and all, but flat is better than nested.

enraged_camel 10y ago
Flatness can result in much more overwhelming complexity.
- xapata 10y ago
  I suppose that depends on what you mean by complexity. I prefer lists to trees, in general. After I reorganized my Dropbox into only 1 layer of folders, I've found it much easier to navigate. But hey, that's just my anecdote.
r00fus 10y ago
Drive is needlessly complex. On my laptop I have folder structures. In zip files and tarballs you have structure. You even get hierarchy in a CD. Trying to find your way around Drive (esp. when sharing between enterprises) is a nightmare for me. Google could cement some really good mindshare if they made shared folders/docs more intuitive.

robszumski 10y ago

I don't get why you simply can't list all of the folders that are shared with the entire Google Apps domain.

user5994461 10y ago

+1 for drive having the worst organization of all doc tools currently in existence. Give me a windows remote shared directory, a sharepoint, a dropbox, just anything that would let me work. Drive is only good at making a single isolated file and sharing that file over gmail. It is lacking notions of structured and shared folders. No thought was given to sharing documents across the company/teams/services, EXCEPT to make a single document sent by email.

pritambarhate 10y ago

Yes +1 Google drive is terrible for organising files in folders. And when multiple people share files with you daily if becomes even worse. I have given up on it. Now I just use search, which works most of the time, especially if I remember at least one word in the file title. But sometimes relevancy and order of search results seems to screwed up.