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> when macOS provided native support for cloud filesystems When was that? I haven't regularly used a Mac in a good four years. At the time I had the Google Dri

> when macOS provided native support for cloud filesystems When was that? I haven't regularly used a Mac in a good four years. At the time I had the Google Drive app with a business subscription, and I don't think there was any other option. It was terrible, to the point I completely gave up on it. Just like the other poster says, it would say, "I'm all synced up", but only half my files would be synced. I'd need to restart it to get syncing again. When I would try to get a large amount of files from the cloud to local storage, it would randomly crap out. Basically, it would stall very often, and this was on wired gigabit ethernet, not some spotty mobile connection from a phone via wifi in a crowded cafe.

crazygringo 1y ago
May 2022: https://support.google.com/a/answer/13067413 https://support.google.com/a/answer/13067413 Apple calls it File Provider. I've been using the Google Drive for Desktop file streaming version since it launched in 2017 (file streaming, not exactly sync), I think it was originally called Google DriveFS, and never had any problems until they switched to Apple's File Provider. There's a different Drive app that only did sync, I think that's what you're talking about. It's much older. Then they got merged into the current one.
- vladvasiliu 1y ago
  Yeah, it's the file streaming one I used to use. My use case was storing my photography collection on it. Combined with lightroom, it was terrible. For random documents, it worked well enough. But, for that use case, I never had any issue with iCloud nor OneDrive. I never use iCloud for massive quantities, but OneDrive would also crap out when syncing many large files (I used it as a backup for my camera while travelling earlier this year). Attempting to work with Lightroom out of that would also have it randomly stop syncing (I had checked "keep files on this device" or similar so LR always had local copies).

crazygringo 1y ago

May 2022: https://support.google.com/a/answer/13067413 https://support.google.com/a/answer/13067413 Apple calls it File Provider. I've been using the Google Drive for Desktop file streaming version since it launched in 2017 (file streaming, not exactly sync), I think it was originally called Google DriveFS, and never had any problems until they switched to Apple's File Provider. There's a different Drive app that only did sync, I think that's what you're talking about. It's much older. Then they got merged into the current one.

vladvasiliu 1y ago
Yeah, it's the file streaming one I used to use. My use case was storing my photography collection on it. Combined with lightroom, it was terrible. For random documents, it worked well enough. But, for that use case, I never had any issue with iCloud nor OneDrive. I never use iCloud for massive quantities, but OneDrive would also crap out when syncing many large files (I used it as a backup for my camera while travelling earlier this year). Attempting to work with Lightroom out of that would also have it randomly stop syncing (I had checked "keep files on this device" or similar so LR always had local copies).