The new app called Drive for Desktop will further unify the previous consumer and business client of Google by completely replacing them later on. Currently, the Backup and Sync serves as the cloud ...

Google's new Drive app for desktop is slated to replace both the Drive File Stream and Backup and Sync apps. Reading time 2 minutes In order to better manage files for both home users and enterprise ...

To reduce confusion, Google, in an official blog, announced it is combining Google Drive File Stream and Google Backup and Sync desktop apps with ‘Google Drive for Desktop’. The Google Drive for ...

My PC became the hub, and the cloud became optional.

Google has announced that it intends to unify its Google Drive solutions for keeping files in sync on users' desktops. Currently there are two desktop sync solutions for using Google Drive – Drive ...

Last month, we reported that Drive File Stream was being renamed to “Google Drive for desktop.” This name change is part of a broader move in 2021 to unify the current enterprise client with the ...

Google announced its plans to transition users of its consumer file syncing desktop service, Backup and Sync, onto a new unified app that both consumers and business clients can use called Drive for ...

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I replaced cloud storage subscriptions with something I actually control.

Before getting into anything technical, check the Google Drive server status. As it turns out, Google Drive servers can go down during the maintenance phase. During that duration, you can face ...

Frankly, there doesn’t appear to be much new in the upgraded app—the update looks like more of a clean-up and unification effort than anything else. Major features include: According to Google’s ...

Saving your files in the cloud affords a number of benefits, not least among them reliability. Why worry about hard drive failures when Google can keep copies of your files on multiple servers? That's ...