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With the new price point, Google Drive is really attractive

by skrowl 13y ago

kyrra 13y ago
I do use Google Drive some, but the overall usability of it is a bit painful. They have a lot of nice features for sharing folders/files with others, but the organization of it's web UI is just painful to use at times.
- chaosmonkey 13y ago
  For some reason I actually like it. What do you find painful?
  - kyrra 13y ago
    You know... you asking that question made me look at it and try to figure out why I don't like it. I think it actually my lack of organization with it. "My Drive" and "Shared with me" section has lots of docs/spreadsheets that I don't need anymore and they clutter the view, I just never thought to remove them to clean it up. So really, it's my own lack of housekeeping that's bothering me. Time to clean up my Google Drive. Thanks.
    - chaosmonkey 13y ago
      Glad I could help! :)
  - walls 13y ago
    Personally, I've had endless sync issues with Google drive. It doesn't seem to have any sort of 'retry' feature if it can't sync a file other than restarting the service.
    - Jackim 13y ago
      If you have your own server, I'd recommend BTSync. Sync any folder on your computer easily, without having to move them into a specific folder. You could probably set something up to also sync everything to Google Drive with a script, for redundancy.
    - chaosmonkey 13y ago
      Could be a weird bug. I have a lot of files in my drive and don't have any issues so far. My drive is set up to sync on windows and mac. Also use it on my android and web.
- valarauca1 13y ago
  Mega offers more storage for free, I don't know about ease of use.
  - pavel_lishin 13y ago
    I'd be worried about Mega being shut down by the government.
    - cooper12 13y ago
      Or even worse, backdoored. Considering how strong the government went down on the old mega, I'm surprised they would allow Kim Dotcom to create another service, especially one that was designed with encryption in mind.
      - valarauca1 13y ago
        'Encryption in mind' is a bad way of putting it. Most of Mega's much spoken of encryption is done in your browser.
- tensafefrogs 13y ago
  What about the sync client? https://tools.google.com/dlpage/drive https://tools.google.com/dlpage/drive
biden423 13y ago
Why are you using Google Drive? Eric Schmidt is a tech adviser to Barack Obama, the same person who selected a "war mongerer" in Joe Biden as his partner.

With the new price point, Google Drive is really attractive

by skrowl 13y ago

With the new price point, Google Drive is really attractive

kyrra 13y ago

I do use Google Drive some, but the overall usability of it is a bit painful. They have a lot of nice features for sharing folders/files with others, but the organization of it's web UI is just painful to use at times.

chaosmonkey 13y ago
For some reason I actually like it. What do you find painful?
- kyrra 13y ago
  You know... you asking that question made me look at it and try to figure out why I don't like it. I think it actually my lack of organization with it. "My Drive" and "Shared with me" section has lots of docs/spreadsheets that I don't need anymore and they clutter the view, I just never thought to remove them to clean it up. So really, it's my own lack of housekeeping that's bothering me. Time to clean up my Google Drive. Thanks.
  - chaosmonkey 13y ago
    Glad I could help! :)
- walls 13y ago
  Personally, I've had endless sync issues with Google drive. It doesn't seem to have any sort of 'retry' feature if it can't sync a file other than restarting the service.
  - Jackim 13y ago
    If you have your own server, I'd recommend BTSync. Sync any folder on your computer easily, without having to move them into a specific folder. You could probably set something up to also sync everything to Google Drive with a script, for redundancy.
  - chaosmonkey 13y ago
    Could be a weird bug. I have a lot of files in my drive and don't have any issues so far. My drive is set up to sync on windows and mac. Also use it on my android and web.
valarauca1 13y ago
Mega offers more storage for free, I don't know about ease of use.
- pavel_lishin 13y ago
  I'd be worried about Mega being shut down by the government.
  - cooper12 13y ago
    Or even worse, backdoored. Considering how strong the government went down on the old mega, I'm surprised they would allow Kim Dotcom to create another service, especially one that was designed with encryption in mind.
    - valarauca1 13y ago
      'Encryption in mind' is a bad way of putting it. Most of Mega's much spoken of encryption is done in your browser.
tensafefrogs 13y ago
What about the sync client? https://tools.google.com/dlpage/drive https://tools.google.com/dlpage/drive

biden423 13y ago

Why are you using Google Drive? Eric Schmidt is a tech adviser to Barack Obama, the same person who selected a "war mongerer" in Joe Biden as his partner.