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Same position here. Ignoring the whole Google/privacy stuff, Drive seems fundamentally broken. In my case it's things like if you need to replace a file it's l
by fidotron 13y ago
Same position here. Ignoring the whole Google/privacy stuff, Drive seems fundamentally broken.
In my case it's things like if you need to replace a file it's luck as to if it syncs or not. First you copy it in place, but it renames the copy you just put there (no option to just replace it) so you learn to delete the thing first, but no, you'll replace it and the sync engine didn't seem smart enough to realise the file had actually changed, and you would end up with either the old file left on the server or worse it would pick up the delete operation and forget the replacement.
This was a few months ago, but that's still long after the service had been out in the wild. The concept of these cloud storage things, especially once proper APIs are available and we can switch storage providers independently of app providers, is a good one, but GDrive doesn't seem to get the fundamentals right.