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I got Drive and I am not in the US.

I guess Google just let people join in order of importance *shrug*

They will get to you late, don't worry.
 
Kayhan said:
I got Drive and I am not in the US.

I guess Google just let people join in order of importance *shrug*

They will get to you late, don't worry.
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Haha I'm pretty happy about getting in early. I'm usually one of the last to get updates that roll out.

In other cloud news I've started using SugarSync along with Dropbox thanks to the custom folder sync. I can now sync all my game saves without worry.
 
AllenShrz said:
I get that too. Maybe because Im not in the US?
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got it in the netherlands, however it still says not ready yet on ipad. weird.

Did you upload a doc to google docs to extend it to 5Gb? check your docs space, if it's 1gb still, maybe that's it. I uploaded a doc, it immediately upped me to 5 and then drive was live.
 
Google Docs has been upgraded to 30gb here after going for the 25gb+ for 2.50 us dollars a month plan. It has not switched to google drive though. My gmail is still at 9gb and I have no idea how big my Picasa is at the moment as I can't tell.
 
Andrex said:
via a Verge comment:
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If you look at the Dropbox one, it's repeatedly couched in "HONEST WE AIN'T STEALIN YO SHIT" language, largely due to repeated protests about their TOS over the years. I think Google's will get sorted out. You'll see a modulation process; Google puts up a TOS, people complain, Google revises, people complain, Google revises, people complain, etc.
 
This thing is pissing me off.

I had a ton of things in Google docs as kind of a backup through a setup with Gladient drive which sync google docs with a folder on my desktop.

Now I go into google drive and I see a million folders for each individual file and I click on them and nothing is there, and since it's a backup I tried to just delete everything but it won't go away.

It's also extremely slow, and the desktop version of the google drive is resource hog.
 
I wonder if Google will up the capacity on the free version of Drive once it launches? 5GB is probably plenty, but Skydrive were offering existing accounts 25GB for free, which I got yesterday, and Box had a similar deal for 50GB.

I remember when Gmail launched with 1GB which seemed huge at the time, especially for email - and now it's at over 9GB - more space for email than for files seems a bit strange to me.
 
PaulLFC said:
I wonder if Google will up the capacity on the free version of Drive once it launches? 5GB is probably plenty, but Skydrive were offering existing accounts 25GB for free, which I got yesterday, and Box had a similar deal for 50GB.
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I think they'll let the lay of the land settle a bit, wait for Dropbox to react, wait to see how iCloud and SkyDrive will be integrated going forward, and compete accordingly. A lot is going to depend on whether or not Google wants Drive to be a profitable line-item, or a money-losing service that supports other profitable line-items.
 
Sh1ner said:
Google Docs has been upgraded to 30gb here after going for the 25gb+ for 2.50 us dollars a month plan. It has not switched to google drive though. My gmail is still at 9gb and I have no idea how big my Picasa is at the moment as I can't tell.
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go to the picasaweb.com page and scroll all the way to the bottom. Its listed there. Yea, its the 25+5 free. Grandfathered with the 20gb plan, i have 25 (20+5)

Drive needs some work though. Its almost if not impossible to upload something to drive and then use it on a web page all from mobile. It basically needs the URL creation that Dropbox and Skydrive have.
 
Can anyone post a link to an FAQ?

GDrive is blocked here (personal storage and backup) and I'd like to see a bit more about it.

After a fairly recent HDD failure that I haven't managed to replace yet, I've been thinking more about using cloud services to backup my pictures, music and vids. I've got about 15GB of music re-ripped (just under half of my collection), a few gig of photos, and I'm slowly getting my DVD's re-ripped.

I've no-where enough HDD space for all the DVD rips yet, and won't for a while (too many other expenses are taking priority), but It would be good to be ready for the next HDD failure (glass half empty).

So, there's a 2GB limit of individual file size, but it would be nice to be certain that I could upload my DVD rips (MP4 format) and music rips (MP3 format) so that when the inevitable happens again I won't have to spend another lifetime re-ripping/encoding everything.
 
I'd like to have a "Google Drive" album in Picasa. Would be such a convenient way to navigate through my backed up photos... The photo viewer in Google Drive itself sucks...
 
gcubed said:
go to the picasaweb.com page and scroll all the way to the bottom. Its listed there. Yea, its the 25+5 free. Grandfathered with the 20gb plan, i have 25 (20+5)

Drive needs some work though. Its almost if not impossible to upload something to drive and then use it on a web page all from mobile. It basically needs the URL creation that Dropbox and Skydrive have.
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Yep, my picasa is at 26gb. Excellent.
 
I just got into this today. I already found a major reason why this trumps Dropbox to some degree: Sharing specific folders with other people's Google Accounts. My group is working on a project for our Software Engineering class, and it's quite useful for me to just share the project folder with the group so we can all work on the program from there.
 
Hylian7 said:
I just got into this today. I already found a major reason why this trumps Dropbox to some degree: Sharing specific folders with other people's Google Accounts. My group is working on a project for our Software Engineering class, and it's quite useful for me to just share the project folder with the group so we can all work on the program from there.
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And you can individualize control on files within the folder.
 
Apparently this doesn't support symlinks? I'm actually crushed, that's 99% of my usage right there. :/
 
Doing the great migration from Dropbox today. This thing is eating CPU for breakfast but hopefully it's just doing some kind of first-time file indexing. I really liked Dropbox, but considering the service just is a glorified Amazon S3 wrapper, it's hard to justify $20 a month for it (I was on the 100GB package).
 
RoyalFool said:
Doing the great migration from Dropbox today. This thing is eating CPU for breakfast but hopefully it's just doing some kind of first-time file indexing.
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huh?

Are you people running Pentium IIs or something?

Next to no CPU usage here.

I expect Dropbox to either lower prices or upgrade my 50GB to 100GB for free.
 
I just dragged a few million (if not billion) files into it, and it's been eating 150% CPU for the last hour or so. I'm on the Mac version if that makes any difference, I think it's probably doing what Dropbox does which is generating a checksum so it can see if it already has some of the files in the cloud to avoid having to upload them again.
 
I really like this. Last night I made a Google Drive on my secondary HDD and migrated all of the non-Program related files and folders to it. My local external backup exists, but now I've got an accurate online backup too. Dragging and dropping files/folders and having the changes appear online is excellent.
 
twofold said:
Will 18GB do?

http://fiverr.com/dropbox18g

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Google Drive looks decent. Hopefully it'll get Dropbox to lower their prices, too. I'd love a 100gb a month plan to backup all the important stuff on my computer.
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Just want to say that link you posted already is magical. Got my free 18GBs for the Dropbox after paying the guy $5 within less than 24 hours. I had 7.9GBs of space yesterday, now I'm up to 23.9GBs. Thanks dude!!!!

(^_^)
 
THE NO LIFE KING said:
Just want to say that link you posted already is magical. Got my free 18GBs for the Dropbox after paying the guy $5 within less than 24 hours. I had 7.9GBs of space yesterday, now I'm up to 23.9GBs. Thanks dude!!!!

(^_^)
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How safe is this?

Will you get banned for the guy making lots of fake accounts or does he do the adwords trick to get real people?
 
FYI, Google docs upgraded to Google drive about 4 hours after I joined the 25gb+ plan and asked for a notification of when the service would be ready for me.
 
Stumpokapow said:
You don't have a few billion files. I run a digital archive for a library. You don't have a few billion files.
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Grep just finished - 555,408,625 files! Only need to actually backup about 13,000 of them though. Kind of worried google has so far managed to sync only 12 (jpg files). I guess the servers are getting hammered.
 
Enco said:
How safe is this?

Will you get banned for the guy making lots of fake accounts or does he do the adwords trick to get real people?
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Well according to him, "Legal & Official way guaranteed !!" Top of that, as of this time, he has a 100% rating from over 442 reviews and he's been doing for 5 months now. So I feel that its safe to use his service.
 
I may have to check this out, I've been looking for a place to store some family photos just incase I have a hard drive problem.
 
THE NO LIFE KING said:
Well according to him, "Legal & Official way guaranteed !!" Top of that, as of this time, he has a 100% rating from over 442 reviews and he's been doing for 5 months now. So I feel that its safe to use his service.
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Guess I'll give it a shot.

If I get banned I'll rage so bad. I ranked up 12GB already
 
My Drive finally got activated today. Seems pretty good so far, there are certainly some improvements over Docs. The integration of apps could potentially be great. I already had the Pixlr Chrome app installed, and now I have Pixlr Editor in the "Open with" menu in Drive. For some reason it doesn't actually work right now (I never actually get to Pixlr when I try), but supposedly you can open a file from your Drive in Pixlr, edit it, and save the changes right back to your Drive. Could be pretty convenient.
 
Who said you can't have the same document in several folders now that they are called "folders" rather than "collections"? You certainly can, there are just no checkboxes for it anymore. Now, in the web interface, you Ctrl-click the folders you want the document to be in instead, and you get the same result as with the old interface. Doing this will create two (or more) local copies of the file if you're using the sync program, but it seems like these two copies refer to the same file in your web storage (even if it's not a Google doc, but an image file or whatever), because if you edit one of those copies locally the changes will be synced over to the other copy.

However, if you locally copy a file from one folder to another, that seems to create a duplicate rather than two copies refering to the same online file. Editing one of them (locally or in the web interface) does not affect the other, and they will show up as being in one folder each in the web interface rather than one file being in two folders. So that's a bit inconsistent, but it's not particularly hard to understand why it is like that.

In other words: If you want a document/file to be in two different folders (rather than two copies being in one folder each), you should do it from the web interface.
 
Hylian7 said:
I just got into this today. I already found a major reason why this trumps Dropbox to some degree: Sharing specific folders with other people's Google Accounts. My group is working on a project for our Software Engineering class, and it's quite useful for me to just share the project folder with the group so we can all work on the program from there.
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Wait, what? I've never had a problem sharing specific folders with other people on Dropbox. Am I misunderstanding you or what?
 
No support for multiple gmail accounts on the web and no right click options on the desktop, kind of annoying.

I keep track of two gmail accounts, one for any general shit and youtube, and a secondary one for anything professional or personal.

Obviously due to this I want to upload and share personal and work stuff via the secondary account and not on my shit account. To actually use drive to do this properly I have to go through the hassle of signing out of my accounts and making the secondary account the primary, or by opening up a private browsing window. I don't particularly want to make my secondary account the one which is used by default for googles other services and using youtube.
 
I think I'll stick with my current combo.

iCloud for my iPhone, iPad and music
Dropbox for my main documents and pictures
Sugarsync for small things like game saves. Just got it last night
CrashPlan for a serious local backup on an external HDD. Includes everything of importance

Already too much :lol
 
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