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Google Drive does that Dropbox does that Skydrive does that All of them have poor user interfaces?

by Oletros 13y ago

vernie 13y ago
Dropbox does not do that. I can't speak for SkyDrive.
- Oletros 13y ago
  If you move a file out of the Dropbox folder it is deleted from Dropbox
  - vernie 13y ago
    Yes, but you have a copy of the actual file, not a hollow reference to the the deleted version on Dropbox's servers. You can also recover the file via Dropbox's version interface.
    - Oletros 13y ago
      Yap, like Google Drive or Skydrive. The problem is just with Google Docs files
      - vernie 13y ago
        The problem is that Drive and Docs are no longer different products and what used to be Docs appear as "files" in your Drive.
ndewitt 13y ago
I have a Skydrive synced folder on my computer. Files I put in there are copied to Skydrive. If I remove a file from that folder, it is still a physical file on my computer. Google drive local "files" do not contain your data. I don't know about Dropbox.
- dragonwriter 13y ago
  > Google drive local "files" do not contain your data. Google Drive local files do, in fact, contain your data, for any files that you put into Drive. The issue is that the native files for certain web services that use the Drive interface (including Google's own Documents, Spreadsheets, etc.) are just links to content stored with the web service, not containers for the content itself.
vxNsr 13y ago
He's not talking about general files but rather gDocs, which Dropbox and Skydrive don't really have an equivalent of. http://i.imgur.com/mubelYa.png http://i.imgur.com/mubelYa.png The first three are only links (or pointers) the last one is an actual file. When you remove the first three from the gDrive folder Google will actually move those documents to the trash and your link becomes kinda useless, when you move the last one from the gDrive folder Google still moves the file to your trash (in gDrive) but because it's a real file, you still have it. Google does this because they don't offer a true offline viewer/editor and thus it makes no sense (to them) to take up offline space. With dropbox all files are considered real and therefore when you remove them from dropbox you retain the file even if it's no longer synced. While skydrive has office docs, they too are stored as real files on your computer and thus if you remove them from the skydrive folder you get to keep the file even if it's moved to the rB in skydrive. note: (in the screenshot) those check-marks might be skydrive check-marks and not google's, this is because my gDrive folder is inside my skydrive folder for redundancy -- it still wont sync gDocs, but since I don't really use gDocs I'm okay.

Google Drive does that Dropbox does that Skydrive does that All of them have poor user interfaces?

by Oletros 13y ago

Google Drive does that Dropbox does that Skydrive does that All of them have poor user interfaces?

vernie 13y ago

Dropbox does not do that. I can't speak for SkyDrive.

Oletros 13y ago
If you move a file out of the Dropbox folder it is deleted from Dropbox
- vernie 13y ago
  Yes, but you have a copy of the actual file, not a hollow reference to the the deleted version on Dropbox's servers. You can also recover the file via Dropbox's version interface.
  - Oletros 13y ago
    Yap, like Google Drive or Skydrive. The problem is just with Google Docs files
    - vernie 13y ago
      The problem is that Drive and Docs are no longer different products and what used to be Docs appear as "files" in your Drive.

ndewitt 13y ago

I have a Skydrive synced folder on my computer. Files I put in there are copied to Skydrive. If I remove a file from that folder, it is still a physical file on my computer. Google drive local "files" do not contain your data. I don't know about Dropbox.

dragonwriter 13y ago
> Google drive local "files" do not contain your data. Google Drive local files do, in fact, contain your data, for any files that you put into Drive. The issue is that the native files for certain web services that use the Drive interface (including Google's own Documents, Spreadsheets, etc.) are just links to content stored with the web service, not containers for the content itself.

vxNsr 13y ago

He's not talking about general files but rather gDocs, which Dropbox and Skydrive don't really have an equivalent of. http://i.imgur.com/mubelYa.png http://i.imgur.com/mubelYa.png The first three are only links (or pointers) the last one is an actual file. When you remove the first three from the gDrive folder Google will actually move those documents to the trash and your link becomes kinda useless, when you move the last one from the gDrive folder Google still moves the file to your trash (in gDrive) but because it's a real file, you still have it. Google does this because they don't offer a true offline viewer/editor and thus it makes no sense (to them) to take up offline space. With dropbox all files are considered real and therefore when you remove them from dropbox you retain the file even if it's no longer synced. While skydrive has office docs, they too are stored as real files on your computer and thus if you remove them from the skydrive folder you get to keep the file even if it's moved to the rB in skydrive. note: (in the screenshot) those check-marks might be skydrive check-marks and not google's, this is because my gDrive folder is inside my skydrive folder for redundancy -- it still wont sync gDocs, but since I don't really use gDocs I'm okay.