The app also lets you sync data from USB devices and SD cards as well as your photos and videos from Google Photos. You can also sync existing folders on your computers, such as Documents or Desktop.
Files in My Drive (and all the subfolders selected) copy over to the new folder. When you install Google Backup and Sync, a new folder (named Google Drive) appears on your computer. The Google Backup and Sync app (for personal use and Drive File Stream for businesses) is the replacement for Google Drive and Photos desktop apps for Windows PCs and Macs.
Say hello to Google Backup and Sync! What Is Google Backup and Sync? Well, there’s a simple, speedy and reliable way to organize your files. The same dialog is seen when clicking the gear in either the Activity or Account view.If your business uses Google Workspace, there’s a good chance your files and images are all over the place: your computer, smartphone, the digital camera you seldom use and the various SD cards that are probably gathering dust. How do I make Drive for Desktop confine itself to only mirroring, the way I have it set up in Windows?ĮDIT: Here's what I see in Finder and on my desktop Finder showing two Google Drive foldersĪfter clicking on the Google Drive taskbar icon One is my old Google Drive folder and a new one, containing the same files, but all having "cloud" badges indicating they're being streamed. In Finder I now see TWO "Google Drive" folders. The Preferences dialog for Google Drive on the Mac looks completely different from the one on Windows and lists no options to control anything except Launch on Startup and some cache directory settings.
It wants to sync my entire hard disk to Google so it can stream the files, which I do not want to do. I was just forced to install the new Drive on a MacBook in place of Backup and Sync, and there does not seem to be any such option. When you install the "new" Google Drive for Desktop on Windows you get an option in the preferences dialog to turn off streaming and just continue to use mirroring - you can specify which folders to sync. This question is about the new Google Drive for Desktop on a MacBook Pro with Catalina 10.15.7.
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