Google drive not letting me download my own files

You can use one Google Drive and backup important individual files and folders to the specified folder on your drive.

I installed it in couple locations to backup company data and is running without any problems so far. All locations backed up to a single GB Google Drive. Well google drive is good idea but,to use this you need a google Id. There is much better option available,Cloudberry, which is more user friendly and can be used with any email account. What would happen if your computer was hit with ransomware and you are syncing. I would think that all of your files on Google Drive would be infected as well upon synchronization, rendering them useless.

Unless there is some way to restore from a different date, this seems a problem. My need arose from needing more disk space on my PC, keeping my files safe and being able to access them from any device. I then moved all my photos, organized into folders, and a series of additional folders to Drive. What puzzles me is that so I do not find on the hard disck of the PC all the free space that I expect, but only a part.

And also, while I can access files copied or moved from Drive to my PC, to access other devices, I need to start syncing. In short, I do not understand how everything works. Good luck! I would like to ask for a clarification before subscribing to a cloud, I am contemplating on which cloud server to use. My usb ports on my macbook are broken and needs fixing but I think I would prefer to purchase a cloud storage for my datas and photos at the time being.

If I would like to transfer my files photos,videos etc to OneDrive and then delete them off of my mac. Great review, thanks. I understand the files change size in google drive but is does the original remain the original file size on the hard drive? I see the word sync and am curious? I have purchased extra storage and yet I cannot EVER get to screen that looks like any of the ones in this article! HOW do use I use this stuff??

From there on out, just follow the instructions. Hi I am android developer , how can I synch my custom app with my own google drive synch data option, just like whatsapp?

Thanks in advance. Hello, great post. I can only download them from google drive on the web! How do I get them into the my drive folder? If it works for me why confuse myself with drive again. I bought 2 TB on Google drive however I am not sure it serves my need. I am looking for an extra space where I can copy some folders and keep them in syncy with my PC. After one week of talking to support until we finally could explain our problem, we could recover our data.

Since then, for the last 3 months, we have major syncing issues, some lost date, duplicated files and folders. I felt I needed to become a DB specialist to figure out how to fix our issues. Now I am testing Google Drive too slow sync of large files! Nice and thorough review, but one thing to add is that as a new user some services are more intuitive than others. Plus, with the Premium 1TB annual subscription you have live support. OneDrive has, so far, been extremely frustrating to set up and sync with multiple devices.

Plus, OneDrive offers no live support either by phone or chat. The Virtual Assistant is worthless and I found that a Google search bar is more efficient in finding answers. In my opinion, when it comes to support, OneDrive takes a distant second to Dropbox. Setting it up is simple. Install the app, log in and away you go. Great comparison, thanks. I have standalone Word , and it keeps crashing. Ok, its time to update. If I buy Office , in effect, it doubles the price I pay to use Dropbox!

Hi, Pam! Yeah, buying Office makes it hard to justify spending on Dropbox. The main difference is that you have to work from a browser-based word processor like Google Docs and that takes some getting used to. Hope that helps. One of the better well written reviews of any types of offerings I have seen in some time. Thank you for taking what must have been a large amount of time to do this!

Incremental sync and sharing management and, more recently, file requests puts dropbox a long way ahead in usability and ease of collaboration. Do the other two options avoid this issue? It also depends on the version of Dropbox you are paying for. If you are using Dropbox Plus with 1TB of space and sharing the same login info, then you will always have conflicted files because Dropbox would only see that, in essence, there is only on person logged in.

The reason being that Dropbox offers a feature called Dropbox Badge with Office files. This feature allows you to see anyone else viewing or editing a file. You can leave realtime comments on the file as it is edited, and if someone makes changes and saves them all other parties viewing the file are updated on the changes and prompted to update the file to the new version. This feature alone makes Dropbox leaps and bounds better than the competition when working with word documents and files.

Dropbox support absolutely non existent. We are long term business users of dropbox. We have subscribed to a 30 user business plan for many years. Each year renewal was a simple process. Thsi year however has bene quite different. For reasons unknown we have bene unable to review.

We raised a ticket with support who were unable to help much but in the middle of troubleshooting our count was downgraded to a free one.

It also meant we lost access tot the admin panel and hence the support. Since then we have tried and tried to get this problem sorted.

There is zero response form sport and finding a human to talk to is impossible. I would agree that One Drive would place last in this fight, but even with the thorough analysis, it seems a stretch to call Dropbox a winner here. A password protected link seems a bit redundant, since anyone who shares the link can just as easily share the login information. I had to become an expert reading hundreds of DROPBOX manuals to be able to ask the right question and finally tell them what needed to be done to fix my problem!

Well… rats. As a recent subscriber to Office Personal, I was looking for comparisons like this in the hopes that I could justify dropping the cost of Dropbox and switch to the included 1TB of OneDrive. Not great news financially, but at least I feel more educated and have justified my decision. You should add a comparison category for which plays the nicest with other applications.

DropBox insists on glomming onto 10 of the 15 shell extension icon overlays available in windows, disabling the icon overlays for other software think source control. Which is why I am here looking for an alternative…. Not familiar with that terminology. Can you explain what you mean and the negative impact that has? If your dropbox files are downloaded too much, they lock your account for longer and longer amounts of time. Once you go over, they lock you, and then you just have to wait.

Which is really frustrating if you use this to share with business customers. I save hundreds of dollars a year compared to Dropbox or iCloud. With 2 of my kids in University, the included Office is a big bonus. Can any of these act as purely a cloud storage?

Can I use all 3 for their free space? Having the same issues with new documents being created. What did you decide? Dropbox allows you to download files to the SD card of your smartphone even with android 4. Which site is best for downloading multiple full-resolution photos? I know each site will store uncompressed images, but am not sure which allows me to download large numbers of photos at once without losing any image quality.

Many thanks. I have used Dropbox for several years with my team all located in 4 different states. We do pay for the 1T service and have never been disappointed. I used Google drive for a period of time, great syncing but poor integration with MS Office products at that time.

I was tempted to pay for more space on Google Drive but downloading multiple files from Google Drive zips them up incredibly slowly even for small file sizes. I had one very unfortunate incident recently sharing files with Google Drive.

A user uploaded a couple of new files into folders owned by a central account which everyone was sharing. Fine so far. A little while later the original user deleted his GoogleDrive account because he had ended up with two, and was cleaning up.

Worse no one noticed for more than 30 days so they were unrecoverable. After testing, Dropbox handles ownership differently, and this does not happen. Have enjoyed Dropbox until the iOS app seems unable to release the cache — and is using up valuable storage. This makes me shop around — hence reading this article. Thanks a lot for the review. This issue has been around for a very long time, and affects millions of users, but Google seems to do nothing about this bug.

I used all three of them. There is nothing to debate: the analysis is correct. Just check if you have had problems. While the same thing with Gdrive takes days. To all professionals, even the small ones: Dropbox is the only totally reliable cloud sync space. Hi, I would like to hear something on two issues. Does anyone has something to say? Thanks in advance. I am a mortgage broker in Canada looking for a solution to my biggest problem.

I often have to print them first and then re-scan in my computer as pdfs. It is time consuming and they often become hard to read. Here is what I want to be able to do: buy cloud storage where I can create an individual file for each client, send them a link that is password protected so they can upload their documents paystub, letter of employment, Bank statements proving they have the down payment, etc.

I need to be able to convert the documents into. For clients living far away, I would then like to be able to send the clients the mortgage approvals and have the ability for them to sign electronically if they prefer. Any suggestions which provider would be best for me? Thanks for your help. Hi, Laurie. Thanks for commenting! You can create shared folders with Google Drive and invite your clients to add files to them, but that would require them setting up a Google account which is probably more work than you want to ask of them.

Dropbox also integrates with Office Online free , so you can use Excel to track your mortgage customers. As far as organizing your mortgages, you can create folders and subfolders in Dropbox to do that. On a final note, if you did want to use Google Drive, you could just set up a WeTransfer account and have customers send you files that way. Its a good file transfer service with some customization options that let you easily build your own personalized webpage for customers to send you files.

Thanks for this comparison. Since Dropbox Support has ruined 2 restore operations causing us countless headaches, we have to find another option. Which leaves OneDrive for Business , which is looking pretty good right now. Hopefully it will be more reliable than Dropbox. Dropbox is terribly inconvenient. It is impossible to see the size of your file, directory. There is no normal directory tree. Unable to download the archive of the directory or several files.

I had paid use of dropbox for few years but recently changed to onedrive because it was free with my office Terribly disappointed… My needs are small :what I save in my home computer must be automatically available from my work computer as well as my mobile, and vice versa, assuming all are connected to internet I have about 40Mbps connection, not an issue. But it is not syncing in time. Very frustrating. I need to go back to Dropbox, I guess! They said they will not delete my account and storage till my paid subscription is over in August.

Never again!!!! Spideroak: Good and well-priced for backups, but cannot recommend for synchronization of large filesets. For me the spideroak client frequently stalls, leaving devices unsynchronized without warning. And once it detects a synchronization conflict i.

As a side-effect, this also means that it is safe but not recommended to synchronize. As personal user only thing which adds every day on my phone is pics and videos. What best way to view them and have google run all kinds of AI n facial recognition. So Google Photos makes it tilt my decision. I have very bad experience with Dropbox. I am using it for my company data but dropbox is supporting Windows Server though it was running flawlessly for certain time.

Two months before, it stopped and crash and till now not able to start again. Dropbox says more than K files syncing will degrade the performance. Due to Windows Server and more than K file, dropbox support team raised their hands to solve this issue. Now looking for alternate as G-drive or OneDrive. Thank you, very helpful. Great article, many thanks. One update is that One Drive on their business plans now offers encryption at rest.

I personally will stay with Dropbox because it just works without any issue, but thought the update would be useful. Thanks for the comment, Matthew. We did mention in the article that OneDrive Business encrypts at rest. I have used DropBox for probably 10 years or more.

I loved that! All my photos were almost instantly available on my PC, laptop, etc when came back to my office after taking pictures at a business meeting. That worked quite well too, except the syncing issues when working on same EXCEL files, resluting in Sync Conflicts, We resolved this by only ever having one person working on one file at the time. I needed a third account anyway, so I decided to give it a try,. We changed settings, waited, etc.

Maybe I will keep one account, for the phone syncing option. Not usable for large files! For small files it is ok. But every time I make a change in my GB folder it takes a week to sync and using my PC juices, slowing it down and heating up the harddrive.

But the speed of the syncing is of course is an important issue for my team and me. And DropBox compared to Google is by far the faster option when it comes to syncing. But DropBox Support is lacking.

They always send you to read a manual and follow the instructions there. Honestly, I can find the manuals myself. What I need is human help.

And only after insisting, chats and dozens of emails, is the problem finally escalated to a person who actually understands DropBox better than me after I had rad a ton of manuals. We had huge problems for the last 8 months! I started the switch over to Google Drive. The price was right and I trusted the system. I was wrong. I used it to backup my Lightroom files. Not only did it drop all of my Lightroom files, it killed them on my computer via the sync.

The files were not in the trash. The new features are great and the reliability is significantly better. I have only used dropbox and I have no point of reference on the other two. DB customer service, although it seems to try its best, sucks. It is obviously outsourced to third world countries, which to a degree is a security issue, and the reps are most of the time low IQ and English challenged.

Use this method when you know the email address Hampshire or otherwise of everyone with whom you are sharing. Under "People" in the "Share with others" box, type the email address Hampshire, or otherwise of the person or Google Group you want to share with.

Tip: Search for Hampshire contacts by typing a name in the box. To choose if a person can view, comment, or edit the file, click the Down arrow next to the text box. You can have the link only available to the Hampshire community, or to the whole world. To choose whether a person can view, comment, or edit the file, click the Down arrow next to "Anyone with the link. Note that the link will default to be viewable by Hampshire College accounts only!

A file link will be copied to your clipboard. Paste the link in an email or anywhere you want to share it.

If you plan to collaborate with a group of people on a recurring basis, such as within a department or for a class, we strongly suggest creating a shared folder or a shared drive see below. Then every item placed in this folder will automatically be shared with the group. Select the name of the folder in Google Drive. At the top, click Share. Tip: You can also right-click the folder and choose Share. November 12, Next article Skype for a hundred people is already a reality.

Comparing Approaches to Data Protection November 15, It creates an html file based on the original file. Worked perfect, thanks Ali for walking through each step clearly. Appreciate it! You need to make a shortcut to your starred folder.

So I tried and it only downloaded 3 out of 20 videos in the whole folder. Thanks for letting us know Nasa. Hi, just wanted to thank you very much for this tip. Works like a charm for me. This only works for me if I download the entire folder, not a single file. Comment: Please enter your comment! Most Popular. Load more.

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