Google Drive Becoming “Sync” and “Backup”

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Ugh. I pay Google for extra Drive storage but this is going to prompt me to switch back to Dropbox. I have no idea if this new product is going to screw up the way I have things carefully setup.

Google products are always so mysterious and opaque, with little to awful documentation, and little to no configurability or programmability. I'm sick and tired of them.

From the actual descriptions in the various articles (including the Backup and Sync help pages, and the July announcement of Backup and Sync availability), “Backup and Sync” is basically a rename of the Drive desktop app, with more configurability of sync-ing behavior (locations, handling of deletions, etc.)

See, especially, https://support.google.com/drive/answer/2374987?co=GENIE.Pla...

This is misleading. They are only changing the desktop app. For me, not much changes.

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