Google Drive is live

Rich O Brien

If you can see drive in the black bar I showed earlier then you can download and install.

If you can't see it then it's not yet live in Oz.

Did you try the new LayOut v4 yet?

TIG

Not in my UK black bar either

thomthom

@unknownuser said:

Did you try the new LayOut v4 yet?

No, but I really enjoy Bezier Surface 2.0 Pro Edition.

notareal

@paul russam said:

Ummmm......

http://blog.cobychapple.com/blog/2012/04/26/why-im-sticking-with-dropbox-over-google-drive/

or not...
http://www.theverge.com/2012/4/25/2973849/google-drive-terms-privacy-data-skydrive-dropbox-icloud

From http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/terms/

@unknownuser said:

Your Content in our Services

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.

They all need some rights so that they can operate. Some just speak more vague... still waiting my drive.

simon le bon

@tridem said:

You should look also at Sugar Sync, it starts with 5GB, +2GB sending 20 invitations, +500MB for each friend joined, +750MB for starting tasks. And it's more versatile than dropbox to syncronize the folders

Thank you Luca for this addition - I keep it in my links.

I just have signed for a DropBox account : Dropbox's Links feature seems very useful, and I'm interested by the synchronization too.

I just have signed also for a Google Drive account and waiting for my validation mail ( ). This Drive should be extremely useful as storage and bridge with all the Google's services I already use: Gmail, Google+ , Picasa, SketchUP, G Maps , G Earth...

So for the moment, I think the storage possibilities and else features offered are widely enough for me

I'm glad to see that Google’s Terms of Service don't play in an insufferable way with privacy because I would like that Google can stay the only worldwide industry in which I trust reasonably...

Simon

thomthom

Got an email from Mindmeister that they now offer an integration with Google Drive. This sounds very interesting - will try it out.

tomot

I decided to give GD a spin. I presume Google is still trying to iron out the kinks, although I see no feedback forum.
my 1st impression:

upload speed; reminds me of using the old 14.5 modem, took over 1.5 hours to uploaded 300MB (126 photos), upload server crapped out at 120 photo upload.
web surfing while using GD, causes severe refresh rates.
was unable to generate GD sharing over my home network.

Edson

I am a dropbox user and decided to give google drive a try because of its lower prices. one thing I immediately noticed is you cannot get links for other people to download your files. unless this is done in some other way through google docs but this would be much more complicated than in other similar services.

tomot

I figured out the sharing, over the home network, (which no one, in their right mind, would consider as a file sharing alternative which windows 7 already provides) but it illustrates how GD works.

I made my wife the person I want to share the GD files with. This sends an email to her email account. If she does not have a Gmail account), she needs to setup her own Gmail account, login to access the link to my shared files, or since its a home network sign in under my Gmail account.

BTW: I added an .mov folder to my GD computer drive, I contains 4 .mov files which after 4 hours has not been transferred yet.

jeff hammond

fwiw, 'drive' still wasn't showing up in the google menu bar so i went to:

https://drive.google.com/start
(where it previously said my drive wasn't ready yet)

and was able to get it going

jeff hammond

@edson said:

one thing I immediately noticed is you cannot get links for other people to download your files. unless this is done in some other way through google docs but this would be much more complicated than in other similar services.

it's the same (well, similar) as dropbox.. right click on the file then go 'share…'
go to 'share..' again then change who has access..

you can probably link to photos etc as well.. test to follow..

[EDIT] yep.. works

and maybe there's a way to create a 'Public' folder ala dropbox so you don't have to change individual access settings..?

(edit2)--- looking from a phone now and that picture isnt showing up. anyone else seeing an embedded image above?

d12dozr

@unknownuser said:

(edit2)--- looking from a phone now and that picture isnt showing up. anyone else seeing an embedded image above?

Not showing for me. If if Right click -> view Image, I get a 403 Forbidden error

jeff hammond

@d12dozr said:

@unknownuser said:

(edit2)--- looking from a phone now and that picture isnt showing up. anyone else seeing an embedded image above?

Not showing for me. If if Right click -> view Image, I get a 403 Forbidden error

hmm. ok. thanks
I kind of need that ability. I'll try some other stuff later to see if it's possible.
(unless someone already knows how ?)

d12dozr

Test:

d12dozr

It looks like it worked for me right up there(tested from a different browser) - In Google Drive, after clicking the Share button, I just set the Sharing Settings to "Anyone with the link". You could make it "Public" as well.

Edit: wait, just tested from a 3rd browser and now it doesn't show...can you confirm or not?