Google Drive out

[alent1234]

i just uploaded my wife's grandmothers taxes in there for safe keeping. she's old and poor

analyze that for advertising you byatches

 

[bucwylde23]

My biggest problem with the Drive android app is you can't just download a file to wherever you want on your SD card. It's only got an option for "make available offline".

If i want to download something off of drive such as a photo then text it or send to G+ or something, I can't without finding out where files made available offline are stored.

 

[Printer Bandit]

i just uploaded my wife's grandmothers taxes in there for safe keeping. she's old and poor

analyze that for advertising you byatches

turbotax, taxACT, h&r block at home, etc.

 

[Merad]

Meh, I'll probably use it but it seems like a fail in terms of easy sharing. With Dropbox I just have to drop items in the public folder, right click and get a link. With GDrive you have to wait for the file to sync from your PC, then open a web browser, login and set the permissions to allow sharing. THEN, you get a link, which forces the recipient to go through Google Docs to view or download the file...

Edit: Frak, another fail. Can't use an application specific password with the PC application, so I'm sure it's going to annoy me for passwords every 30 days.

 

[WelshBloke]

From an iPad (as an example):

RDP to machine, initiate TV episode download. It downloads straight to the Dropbox folder, so it gets auto synced as soon as it completes.

Use Dropbox or GoodReader to download file to iPad and then watch.

It's easier with Android devices because you can play almost any file type and open any file with any program.

No its easier with Android because you can run a torrent client and just download the show on your phone.

 

[jwhorfin]

So I uploaded an episode of the Daily Show to test. Downloaded it to my Android phone and I noticed the quality went way down, but apparently so did the file size.

I went with the Skydrive because they say in the TOC your content belongs to you and not them. Without getting into what that will or will not mean maybe someone can fill me in on this shrinkage thing.
I start fooling around with Skydrive and noticed even a small (28 kb) Excel file is shrunk down to 14 kb once uploaded. It's a simple DVD spreadsheet.
It appears to be the same text after shrinkage. Me no Excel literate. Me no understand what it get's rid of.

 

[GrumpyMan]

I didn't realize that I had a Skydrive account since 2007. I forgot about it. But it was a nice surprise that I found a bunch of old pictures, music, documents and videos of the kids that I thought were lost when a back up drive tanked on upon boot with no warning last year. When I went to get the free 25 gigs, all that stuff was still there, pretty cool.

And when uploading pics last night, it asked me if I wanted to compress pixel size or not. Got Google's set up but haven't used it yet.

 

[sciwizam]

I went with the Skydrive because they say in the TOC your content belongs to you and not them. Without getting into what that will or will not mean maybe someone can fill me in on this shrinkage thing.
I start fooling around with Skydrive and noticed even a small (28 kb) Excel file is shrunk down to 14 kb once uploaded. It's a simple DVD spreadsheet.
It appears to be the same text after shrinkage. Me no Excel literate. Me no understand what it get's rid of.

Not really. All Cloud ToCs are similar to each other.

Dropbox

By using our Services you provide us with information, files, and folders that you submit to Dropbox (together, "your stuff"). You retain full ownership to your stuff. We don’t claim any ownership to any of it. These Terms do not grant us any rights to your stuff or intellectual property except for the limited rights that are needed to run the Services, as explained below.
We may need your permission to do things you ask us to do with your stuff, for example, hosting your files, or sharing them at your direction. This includes product features visible to you, for example, image thumbnails or document previews. It also includes design choices we make to technically administer our Services, for example, how we redundantly backup data to keep it safe. You give us the permissions we need to do those things solely to provide the Services. This permission also extends to trusted third parties we work with to provide the Services, for example Amazon, which provides our storage space (again, only to provide the Services).​

Skydrive

Except for material that we license to you, we don’t claim ownership of the content you provide on the service. Your content remains your content. We also don’t control, verify, or endorse the content that you and others make available on the service.
You control who may access your content. If you share content in public areas of the service or in shared areas available to others you’ve chosen, then you agree that anyone you’ve shared content with may use that content. When you give others access to your content on the service, you grant them free, nonexclusive permission to use, reproduce, distribute, display, transmit, and communicate to the public the content solely in connection with the service and other products and services made available by Microsoft. If you don’t want others to have those rights, don’t use the service to share your content.
You understand that Microsoft may need, and you hereby grant Microsoft the right, to use, modify, adapt, reproduce, distribute, and display content posted on the service solely to the extent necessary to provide the service.​

Google Drive

Some of our Services allow you to submit content. You retain ownership of any intellectual property rights that you hold in that content. In short, what belongs to you stays yours.
When you upload or otherwise submit content to our Services, you give Google (and those we work with) a worldwide license to use, host, store, reproduce, modify, create derivative works (such as those resulting from translations, adaptations or other changes we make so that your content works better with our Services), communicate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute such content. The rights you grant in this license are for the limited purpose of operating, promoting, and improving our Services, and to develop new ones. This license continues even if you stop using our Services (for example, for a business listing you have added to Google Maps). Some Services may offer you ways to access and remove content that has been provided to that Service. Also, in some of our Services, there are terms or settings that narrow the scope of our use of the content submitted in those Services. Make sure you have the necessary rights to grant us this license for any content that you submit to our Services.​

 

[antef]

So like many of you probably are I'm currently comparing Google Drive and SkyDrive to see which one I want to settle with. I'm noticing that Google Drive has a really comprehensive "previous versions" feature like Dropbox - you can restore the past 100 versions or 30 days' worth. I can even completely delete a file on my computer and it just moves it to Trash in Drive where it can easily be restored later. This sounds pretty nice. Am I correct that SkyDrive has no such features? No revisions or history for anything besides Office docs? If so that is a huge plus in the Google column.

 

[Dr. Zaus]

I've got 10.2 gb on drop box... so i'm not moving any time soon.

I may add if I need more space though :-D

 

[mcurphy]

So I uploaded an episode of the Daily Show to test. Downloaded it to my Android phone and I noticed the quality went way down, but apparently so did the file size.

Google, please let me decide how and when quality should be sacrificed. Until I get that option this service is not very useful to me.

Ehh, I just checked this with an HD movie. No loss in resolution or file size.

GDrive works great for me, and I plan to sign up for their $2.50/ month for 25GB service. I like it so far with the free 5GB.

 

[Orignal Earl]

Not really. All Cloud ToCs are similar to each other.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57420551-93/who-owns-your-files-on-google-drive/

Dropbox and Microsoft's SkyDrive allow you to retain your copyright and IP rights to the work you upload to the service, but Google Drive takes everything you own.

 

[MotionMan]

Weird - I thought I had posted in this thread before, but it does not seem to be here. Anyway...


One of my 5 accounts now has Drive. Two items are in my "Shared with me" folder - Where did those come from, Google Docs (which I don't use)?

MotionMan

 

[WelshBloke]

Weird - I thought I had posted in this thread before, but it does not seem to be here. Anyway...

There's two threads with the same title. One in mobile devices and one in OT. It was throwing me for a while as well.

 

[MotionMan]

There's two threads with the same title. One in mobile devices and one in OT. It was throwing me for a while as well.

Hmmm. But I was receiving notifications from this thread like I was subscribed (i.e. posted).

Odd.

MotionMan

 

[ViviTheMage]

Your Google Drive is not ready yet


interesting that it's called google DRIVE, you'd think they would go with something more synonymous with cloud.

 

[Red Storm]

Ehh, I just checked this with an HD movie. No loss in resolution or file size.

GDrive works great for me, and I plan to sign up for their $2.50/ month for 25GB service. I like it so far with the free 5GB.

Really? Hmm, I tried it yesterday over wifi and LTE and both times the video files were compressed which resulted in a sharp drop in quality.

 

[Codewiz]

Really? Hmm, I tried it yesterday over wifi and LTE and both times the video files were compressed which resulted in a sharp drop in quality.

Are you trying to view it through the web interface? They may be transcoding it when watching it.

When I go to google drive and watch a video in my web browser, it looks much worse. However, it is correctly syncing the same videos between computers without any loss or change in file size.

 

[cronos]

One of my 5 accounts now has Drive. Two items are in my "Shared with me" folder - Where did those come from, Google Docs (which I don't use)?

Yeah if someone shared something through Google Docs with you (just by entering your GMail address in 'share'), it will be converted and shown in your Google Drive. Only online though, not on the desktop.

 

[cheezy321]

Your Google Drive is not ready yet


interesting that it's called google DRIVE, you'd think they would go with something more synonymous with cloud.

Probably because google came up with the name 4+ years ago.