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Google tells users to not delete local Drive profile data while it investigates.

Google Drive is one of the slickest, fullest-featured, and most generous cloud storage and syncing services, with excellent productivity suite collaboration capabilities.

What you need to know Google is now encouraging Google Drive users to use its new Google Drive for Desktop app. The app replaces the current Backup and Sync app for regular people, as well as the previous Drive client for businesses. Backup and Sync will stop working in October. As announced earlier in the year, Google is officially rolling out the new Google Drive for Desktop app. This new app will replace the more consumer-focused Backup and Sync and the Google Drive File Stream for business...

Google Drive for Desktop offers a unified syncing solution JC Torres - Jul 12, 2021, 9:49pm CDT Google is a company that often has multiple solutions to the same problem. That sometimes works well in weeding out ineffective products, but, most of the time, it results in confusion, inconsistency, and uncertainty. That’s true not just in messaging apps, for example, but even when it comes to cloud syncing and backup. Fortunately, Google has been working to fix the latter with...

Ah, the cloud. It sounds so light, so fluffy, so worry-free — doesnt it? Here in the real world, though, cloud services arent always so simple. With Google Drive, specifically, whether youre storing and managing multimedia assets or dealing with documents and spreadsheets, theres a decent chance youll run into some manner of murkiness along the way. Drive does lots of things well, but it certainly has its share of, shall we say, quirks. Ive heard it all over the years — and now, Ive put tog...