As I write this post...
Aug. 17th, 2012 11:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexandraerin...the folder on my Google Drive from which earlier a very important folder had vanished is empty.
It had had two folders and a zipped up copy of both folders I made earlier today, thinking "Okay, I'll never do anything with these, they will remain unique and therefore never conflict with anything and always be there."
And they're gone. Well, they're in the recycling bin, which is where Google Drive puts something it decides you've gotten rid of. Which is how I know I didn't absentmindedly move rather than copy them into the Dropbox folder.
I've moved it right back because while I'm getting used to Dropbox (and making triple sure it doesn't have the same issues) I want to make sure that I have my vital files in as many places as possible
I understand the reasoning behind rebranding Google Docs as Google Drive... if the Drive program hadn't been connected to my familiar Docs interface I never would have thought to try it, but I feel like I'm in a really weird place right now because on the one hand Google Drive (the online office suite) is one of my favorite things ever and getting better but on the other hand Google Drive (the local-to-cloud-to-local syncing program) is such a wibbly-wobbly ball of faily-waily stuff.
The really hilarious thing about it all is that it's only because of the improvements to the "Gdocs" version of Google Drive that I've had the time to mess about with the sync version of Drive... though in absolute fairness to the company/brand, it's only because I was messing about with the sync version that I found out about the offline capabilities of the "docs" version.
The final analysis for the week is that I'm very glad that I tried the Google Drive syncing service because it's where I first learned that I could use the in-browser word processor offline (although it was a hassle to get it working and literally nothing I've done has been able to make the Drive sync program detect that offline editing is enabled) and because it got me looking at the advantages of a sync folder.
It had had two folders and a zipped up copy of both folders I made earlier today, thinking "Okay, I'll never do anything with these, they will remain unique and therefore never conflict with anything and always be there."
And they're gone. Well, they're in the recycling bin, which is where Google Drive puts something it decides you've gotten rid of. Which is how I know I didn't absentmindedly move rather than copy them into the Dropbox folder.
I've moved it right back because while I'm getting used to Dropbox (and making triple sure it doesn't have the same issues) I want to make sure that I have my vital files in as many places as possible
I understand the reasoning behind rebranding Google Docs as Google Drive... if the Drive program hadn't been connected to my familiar Docs interface I never would have thought to try it, but I feel like I'm in a really weird place right now because on the one hand Google Drive (the online office suite) is one of my favorite things ever and getting better but on the other hand Google Drive (the local-to-cloud-to-local syncing program) is such a wibbly-wobbly ball of faily-waily stuff.
The really hilarious thing about it all is that it's only because of the improvements to the "Gdocs" version of Google Drive that I've had the time to mess about with the sync version of Drive... though in absolute fairness to the company/brand, it's only because I was messing about with the sync version that I found out about the offline capabilities of the "docs" version.
The final analysis for the week is that I'm very glad that I tried the Google Drive syncing service because it's where I first learned that I could use the in-browser word processor offline (although it was a hassle to get it working and literally nothing I've done has been able to make the Drive sync program detect that offline editing is enabled) and because it got me looking at the advantages of a sync folder.