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Claim Your BusinessGoogle Drive has a rating of 3.18 stars from 14 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally satisfied with their purchases. Google Drive ranks 36th among Online Storage sites.
I have always trusted google drive for a long time. Google drive is quick, secure, and all of your files are saved directly in google drive. Google drive is very helpful and I like it a lot. I even use google drive for school and I can always rely on it to store all of my schoolwork securely. Thank you, Google!
I used Google Drive for years thinking that anything I left there was safe. Wrong. Just checked it and half of my files are gone. No rhyme or reason to which ones. Just Gone. Well, guess what, I never trusted Google in the first place and anyone who does, well, it's your funeral, and you can call the tune. Thank God I backed up onto my hard drive as I went along, though obviously, not often enough. Well, Google got me me, but it could have been a lot worse. Way to go Google. Go ahead, take your best shot. Hope this helps someone else keep their important files safe from the Google Gestapo.
I have always trusted google drive for a long time. Google drive is quick, secure, and all of your files are saved directly in google drive. Google drive is very helpful and I like it a lot. I even use google drive for school and I can always rely on it to store all of my schoolwork securely. Thank you, Google!
Google drive is a good cloud for backing up files for free. You can share folders, copy a link and send it to someone. But to restore files, you need to enable cookies. You can restore multiple files at one time, but they download in a zip file. Then you need to uncompress them.
I need to use it for school all the time. It is pretty good, but I think I'll need a more organized website next time.
I used Google Drive for years thinking that anything I left there was safe. Wrong. Just checked it and half of my files are gone. No rhyme or reason to which ones. Just Gone. Well, guess what, I never trusted Google in the first place and anyone who does, well, it's your funeral, and you can call the tune. Thank God I backed up onto my hard drive as I went along, though obviously, not often enough. Well, Google got me me, but it could have been a lot worse. Way to go Google. Go ahead, take your best shot. Hope this helps someone else keep their important files safe from the Google Gestapo.
Google Drive is a decent cloud Service provider with options to edit word and excell documents in browser, which is a nice touch. My only complaint is that Google should off more free space as a lot of their competitors do.
I wish drive supported more Excel formulas and more formatting options because sometimes there's a formula that clearly works in any other spreadsheet editor but doesn't work in drive. And it's frustrating. The good part is that document editing and sharing is free.
I recently had the good fortune, because of the pandemic, to not only have access to actual newspapers as they appear on paper using a computer, but access to these newspapers at home, thanks to one of the libraries I go to. And to copy photos or articles as I would at that library, using a machine made by Xerox or someone else, the web site provides me with the option to save to Google Drive so I can print out later when I get to the library. For two months, going to a library wasn't an option. I'd rather no have the entire responsibility for printing at home.
Sounds simple, right? Wrong. When I get to Google Drive, I can't tell where my photos are. There is now a folder with the name of the web site I got them from, though I don't know how it was created. The other folder is called "Huh?" That tells you something. I don't know where that one came from. Anyway, I click on the name of the folder. Nothing happens. I'm not sure how I found out I'd have to double click. Why exactly would I? Anyway, once I do, there are the photos.
Ready to print. I click on the photo. Again, nothing. Oh, right, I have to double click. That opens a new tab. I don't want tabs. I want a new window. I use CTRL-P to print. And that gives me what I want to print... no, wait, that happens AFTER I did CTRL-P again. And what I want to print doesn't appear. Only a small part of the photo appears. Where are my options to change that? There don't seem to be any. I contacted the library where they actually have access to the site, which is not the one where I print, which does not. Someone finally found there was a place that said "More settings". FINALLY, it says change size to printable area. That makes it work. Okay, it's printed. Now how to I go back to the list? The answer: I don't. I have to find the tab where the list WAS, only it's not there any more. The single photo is. Don't try the back button. That's the logical way to do it. No one has used logic so far in designing this site.
Idea! How about "refresh"! Oh, hey, that give me back my list. But I click again and I end up with yet another tab. Soon there are numerous tabs. I have to click to get rid of them all and start over. But I opened Google Drive in a new window when I started, so I can do that again. And repeat.
When I look to see if I've printed something, all I can do is guess. The order changes. I think the first one on the list now is a new one. How do I know when I'm finished? I guess when something looks familiar. Is there at least a date when I added it somewhere? I guess.
Oh, it gets better. Several years later, I need to move some photos to make them easier to find. Guess what? I can't. I come up with the idea of right clicking and there is a move option. Not that this does anything. No matter what I do, nothing gets move and I see a message "Move cancelled".
Oh, I'm not through. I asked for help three different ways. I was promised a response from Google in 24 to 48 hours. That was nearly a week ago. And guess what? This morning when I checked the community where I could ask for help, no response. I went to Google Drive and found the four most recent photos but when I clicked on the name of the file, almost six months of photos were missing. I saw a search field and typed in the date "February 2023" (that's when I'm writing this part) and some of my photos came up, a few more than those newest ones. I also saw a few when I typed in "January 2023".
I tried again after getting no help. I don't know what I did to make this happen, but finally, when I clicked on the name of another folder, the word "Move" appeared in blue at the bottom. But as with Facebook, if you try to get there by scrolling down, it doesn't happen. Other problems: When I tried to do it again, "Move" was gray instead of black, and not an option. Don't ask me how I finally got it to appear, but when it did, my options were not folders. Apparently I was only allowed to move a photo to another site, not elsewhere on Google Drive. I don't know what changed later or what I did. Oh, and there was the time when I literally wasn't allowed to do anything.
Wait. I'm not finished. I had to go through a different process to save newspaper articles to Google Drive when they were older than 1984. Don't ask me why. It must be the other site. Still, it is using Google Drive that is the problem once I figure it out. And then when the time came to find them, where were they? I don't know. As I was trying to think what to tell the librarian via email after I got home, I remembered the process I used to save the articles, and I clicked on the button I had used when I did that. I'm not sure how I got to the articles or whether I found all the ones I saved, though I thought I saved more of them.
No, we're not through. Just when I thought I had things all figured out, I went back to try to locate the newspaper photos or whatever that I saved through the process I used when I started saving photos or whatever I wanted. Now they're gone. I click on what I used to click on to get to them and it tells me I have to drop files here. No, I'm not trying to put anything there. I'm trying to get it. And move? Forget that. It won't tell me how to get to that folder any more. I don't know where I am or how to get where I want to be. I did click on something I thought might work and I did get a list. At least I found recent stuff. But when I go back to the list, I don't go back to where I was in the list. And remember, the process of getting back to the list isn't easy. Oh, and it's a list. I don't see the photos until I click. Or is it double click? And once I do look to see what's there, it's the most recent photo. No, they're not in order by when I put them there. There's not even a date showing when I put any of the photos there. When I'm trying to look for older photos, I have to go past any photos I might have seen recently. And if I do look at a really old photo and only know when I put it there, I will never find it again. Because, you see, there's no clue as to when I put the photo there, other than the date on the photo, which is likely the date I put it there.
Pay? Really? I saw that as an option at the bottom, but that's for more storage, which I don't need. Would I pay? Would that improve my experience? No, before you pay, you have to see that you will be getting your money's worth while it's free.
I highly recommend Google Drive. To those interrogating federal prisoners to get vital information regarding national security.
Wow. And I thought Gmail was hard to use.
Seems it can work and sync faster, but overall it's great and convenient. There are more and more cloud services out there these days but this one is a decent one (plus it's google, so...)
Google Drive is incredibly useful for sharing documents so you don't have multiple versions. It's easily accessible from anywhere, since it lives online, and sharing/collaboration are simple enough.
The spreadsheets aren't as robust as Excel. They're lacking in several simple concepts and it's a little clunky to use, by comparison. It needs work. But it's free and easy to collaborate one.
Word docs are pretty basic, but they get the job done.
Google Drive integrates easily with some other programs (Smartsheet for example) which is helpful. You can also open & save any email attachments to your Drive, which is helpful. Organization is pretty straightforward.
For home use or SMB that don't require a complete Microsoft Office set up this is the way to go. You may still require some Office products, they're more robust, but it could save time and money using these Drive tools.
All in all a good tool to add to your toolbox.
Great way to create documents that are stored on the "cloud" and that allows collaboration with multiple people. It doesn't allow you to do everything that Microsoft Office does, but its free!
I spent a week fixing backup and organization oversights, searching for files and generally wasting time on things I should never have to worry about. It shouldn't be this hard when the whole function of drive is to backup and organize. They won't have another hour from me.
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