Re: Google Drive

**E* S* P* <m*@earthlink.net>**

> Doug, greatly appreciate your generosity in sharing. You're the BEST!
Ellen Spector Platt
Garden Bytes from the Big Apple
www.gardenbytes.com


A quick note that might save some of you some frustration.  I downloaded
> the Google Drive app for my desktop and started using it to upload files.
>  Works like a charm.  But I don't want 100 gigs of images sitting on my
> desktop so I started deleting them out of the app (thinking it was a simple
> uploader)  Wrong!  It's a mirror of the drive.  Here I am adding files like
> crazy, watching them get checked and then deleting them from the laptop -
> only to find out that Google Drive then trashed them as well.
> 
> I have now deleted the app and direct upload to Drive using the "upload"
> button itself.  The files now sit quite comfortably by their lonesome and
> not connected to my desktop in any way.
> 
> Bottom line - if you want a mirror/cloud storage, use the app.  If you want
> secure backup not connected, then use the uploader in Drive itself.
> 
> 


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