Alan Stainer

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Backup and Sync for Google Photos and Google Drive is here… but I don’t care

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Backup and Sync for Google Photos and Google Drive is here… but I don’t care

Why? It’s simple, there is no Linux client, therefore I will not be able to use it. I think Google have really missed a trick here.

#GoogleDrive4Linux

https://www.blog.google/products/photos/introducing-backup-and-sync-google-photos-and-google-drive/

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  9. Ron Serina says

    I make full use of this feature Alan Stainer but I do have to restart my putor on a regular basis ….because win 10

  10. Ron Serina says

    I make full use of this feature Alan Stainer but I do have to restart my putor on a regular basis ….because win 10

  11. Ron Serina says

    I make full use of this feature Alan Stainer but I do have to restart my putor on a regular basis ….because win 10

  12. Ron Serina says

    I make full use of this feature Alan Stainer but I do have to restart my putor on a regular basis ….because win 10

  13. Ron Serina says

    I make full use of this feature Alan Stainer but I do have to restart my putor on a regular basis ….because win 10

  14. Ron Serina says

    I make full use of this feature Alan Stainer but I do have to restart my putor on a regular basis ….because win 10

  15. Ron Serina says

    I make full use of this feature Alan Stainer but I do have to restart my putor on a regular basis ….because win 10

  16. Ron Serina says

    I make full use of this feature Alan Stainer but I do have to restart my putor on a regular basis ….because win 10

  25. Alan Stainer says

    Randy Resnick there are third party solutions, but there really shouldn’t have to be. Also why pay for something that Windows and Mac users get at no extra charge?

  26. Alan Stainer says

    Randy Resnick there are third party solutions, but there really shouldn’t have to be. Also why pay for something that Windows and Mac users get at no extra charge?

  27. Alan Stainer says

    Randy Resnick there are third party solutions, but there really shouldn’t have to be. Also why pay for something that Windows and Mac users get at no extra charge?

  28. Alan Stainer says

    Randy Resnick there are third party solutions, but there really shouldn’t have to be. Also why pay for something that Windows and Mac users get at no extra charge?

  29. Alan Stainer says

    Randy Resnick there are third party solutions, but there really shouldn’t have to be. Also why pay for something that Windows and Mac users get at no extra charge?

  30. Alan Stainer says

    Randy Resnick there are third party solutions, but there really shouldn’t have to be. Also why pay for something that Windows and Mac users get at no extra charge?

  31. Alan Stainer says

    Randy Resnick there are third party solutions, but there really shouldn’t have to be. Also why pay for something that Windows and Mac users get at no extra charge?

  32. Alan Stainer says

    Randy Resnick there are third party solutions, but there really shouldn’t have to be. Also why pay for something that Windows and Mac users get at no extra charge?

  33. Alan Stainer says

    Randy Resnick oh don’t worry. No anger here.

    What I would like to say to counter your arguments is this, why would Google go to the efforts of creating a Chrome client for Linux and not a Google Drive client? With G Suite and paid upgrades there is a direct relationship between using Google Drive and Google earning money, there is none of that with Chrome. So really the arguments for not creating a Google Drive client for Linux make no sense at all. Additionally there was a client for Linux in development a long time ago, but I believe the work on it simply stopped. Infuriatingly there has never been an official anything from Google about it.

  34. Alan Stainer says

    Randy Resnick oh don’t worry. No anger here.

    What I would like to say to counter your arguments is this, why would Google go to the efforts of creating a Chrome client for Linux and not a Google Drive client? With G Suite and paid upgrades there is a direct relationship between using Google Drive and Google earning money, there is none of that with Chrome. So really the arguments for not creating a Google Drive client for Linux make no sense at all. Additionally there was a client for Linux in development a long time ago, but I believe the work on it simply stopped. Infuriatingly there has never been an official anything from Google about it.

  35. Alan Stainer says

    Randy Resnick oh don’t worry. No anger here.

    What I would like to say to counter your arguments is this, why would Google go to the efforts of creating a Chrome client for Linux and not a Google Drive client? With G Suite and paid upgrades there is a direct relationship between using Google Drive and Google earning money, there is none of that with Chrome. So really the arguments for not creating a Google Drive client for Linux make no sense at all. Additionally there was a client for Linux in development a long time ago, but I believe the work on it simply stopped. Infuriatingly there has never been an official anything from Google about it.

  36. Alan Stainer says

    Randy Resnick oh don’t worry. No anger here.

    What I would like to say to counter your arguments is this, why would Google go to the efforts of creating a Chrome client for Linux and not a Google Drive client? With G Suite and paid upgrades there is a direct relationship between using Google Drive and Google earning money, there is none of that with Chrome. So really the arguments for not creating a Google Drive client for Linux make no sense at all. Additionally there was a client for Linux in development a long time ago, but I believe the work on it simply stopped. Infuriatingly there has never been an official anything from Google about it.

  37. Alan Stainer says

    Randy Resnick oh don’t worry. No anger here.

    What I would like to say to counter your arguments is this, why would Google go to the efforts of creating a Chrome client for Linux and not a Google Drive client? With G Suite and paid upgrades there is a direct relationship between using Google Drive and Google earning money, there is none of that with Chrome. So really the arguments for not creating a Google Drive client for Linux make no sense at all. Additionally there was a client for Linux in development a long time ago, but I believe the work on it simply stopped. Infuriatingly there has never been an official anything from Google about it.

  38. Alan Stainer says

    Randy Resnick oh don’t worry. No anger here.

    What I would like to say to counter your arguments is this, why would Google go to the efforts of creating a Chrome client for Linux and not a Google Drive client? With G Suite and paid upgrades there is a direct relationship between using Google Drive and Google earning money, there is none of that with Chrome. So really the arguments for not creating a Google Drive client for Linux make no sense at all. Additionally there was a client for Linux in development a long time ago, but I believe the work on it simply stopped. Infuriatingly there has never been an official anything from Google about it.

  39. Alan Stainer says

    Randy Resnick oh don’t worry. No anger here.

    What I would like to say to counter your arguments is this, why would Google go to the efforts of creating a Chrome client for Linux and not a Google Drive client? With G Suite and paid upgrades there is a direct relationship between using Google Drive and Google earning money, there is none of that with Chrome. So really the arguments for not creating a Google Drive client for Linux make no sense at all. Additionally there was a client for Linux in development a long time ago, but I believe the work on it simply stopped. Infuriatingly there has never been an official anything from Google about it.

  40. Alan Stainer says

    Randy Resnick oh don’t worry. No anger here.

    What I would like to say to counter your arguments is this, why would Google go to the efforts of creating a Chrome client for Linux and not a Google Drive client? With G Suite and paid upgrades there is a direct relationship between using Google Drive and Google earning money, there is none of that with Chrome. So really the arguments for not creating a Google Drive client for Linux make no sense at all. Additionally there was a client for Linux in development a long time ago, but I believe the work on it simply stopped. Infuriatingly there has never been an official anything from Google about it.

  41. Shane Lear says

    And I don’t care either, at least not until Google offers FREE unlimited space like many of their competitors do. I’m unwilling to have my entire computer backed up in Drive if I have to pay a couple hundred dollars a year to do so. I already pay for extra space as it is. It’s ridiculous.

  42. Shane Lear says

    And I don’t care either, at least not until Google offers FREE unlimited space like many of their competitors do. I’m unwilling to have my entire computer backed up in Drive if I have to pay a couple hundred dollars a year to do so. I already pay for extra space as it is. It’s ridiculous.

  43. Shane Lear says

    And I don’t care either, at least not until Google offers FREE unlimited space like many of their competitors do. I’m unwilling to have my entire computer backed up in Drive if I have to pay a couple hundred dollars a year to do so. I already pay for extra space as it is. It’s ridiculous.

  44. Shane Lear says

    And I don’t care either, at least not until Google offers FREE unlimited space like many of their competitors do. I’m unwilling to have my entire computer backed up in Drive if I have to pay a couple hundred dollars a year to do so. I already pay for extra space as it is. It’s ridiculous.

  45. Shane Lear says

    And I don’t care either, at least not until Google offers FREE unlimited space like many of their competitors do. I’m unwilling to have my entire computer backed up in Drive if I have to pay a couple hundred dollars a year to do so. I already pay for extra space as it is. It’s ridiculous.

  46. Shane Lear says

    And I don’t care either, at least not until Google offers FREE unlimited space like many of their competitors do. I’m unwilling to have my entire computer backed up in Drive if I have to pay a couple hundred dollars a year to do so. I already pay for extra space as it is. It’s ridiculous.

  47. Shane Lear says

    And I don’t care either, at least not until Google offers FREE unlimited space like many of their competitors do. I’m unwilling to have my entire computer backed up in Drive if I have to pay a couple hundred dollars a year to do so. I already pay for extra space as it is. It’s ridiculous.

  48. Shane Lear says

    And I don’t care either, at least not until Google offers FREE unlimited space like many of their competitors do. I’m unwilling to have my entire computer backed up in Drive if I have to pay a couple hundred dollars a year to do so. I already pay for extra space as it is. It’s ridiculous.

  57. Alan Stainer says

    Shane Lear I think free unlimited photo storage for anything up to and including 16 MP (via Google Photos) is a pretty good deal. Also Google do not count Google Docs, Sheets, Slides and Forms towards the storage limit. So that’s unlimited too.

    If you mean other file types (PDFs, images over 16 MP, etc) then I don’t know any other storage system that would give you free unlimited storage. It’s just not viable long term as there are running costs to consider at a minimum.

  58. Alan Stainer says

    Shane Lear I think free unlimited photo storage for anything up to and including 16 MP (via Google Photos) is a pretty good deal. Also Google do not count Google Docs, Sheets, Slides and Forms towards the storage limit. So that’s unlimited too.

    If you mean other file types (PDFs, images over 16 MP, etc) then I don’t know any other storage system that would give you free unlimited storage. It’s just not viable long term as there are running costs to consider at a minimum.

  59. Alan Stainer says

    Shane Lear I think free unlimited photo storage for anything up to and including 16 MP (via Google Photos) is a pretty good deal. Also Google do not count Google Docs, Sheets, Slides and Forms towards the storage limit. So that’s unlimited too.

    If you mean other file types (PDFs, images over 16 MP, etc) then I don’t know any other storage system that would give you free unlimited storage. It’s just not viable long term as there are running costs to consider at a minimum.

  60. Alan Stainer says

    Shane Lear I think free unlimited photo storage for anything up to and including 16 MP (via Google Photos) is a pretty good deal. Also Google do not count Google Docs, Sheets, Slides and Forms towards the storage limit. So that’s unlimited too.

    If you mean other file types (PDFs, images over 16 MP, etc) then I don’t know any other storage system that would give you free unlimited storage. It’s just not viable long term as there are running costs to consider at a minimum.

  61. Alan Stainer says

    Shane Lear I think free unlimited photo storage for anything up to and including 16 MP (via Google Photos) is a pretty good deal. Also Google do not count Google Docs, Sheets, Slides and Forms towards the storage limit. So that’s unlimited too.

    If you mean other file types (PDFs, images over 16 MP, etc) then I don’t know any other storage system that would give you free unlimited storage. It’s just not viable long term as there are running costs to consider at a minimum.

  62. Alan Stainer says

    Shane Lear I think free unlimited photo storage for anything up to and including 16 MP (via Google Photos) is a pretty good deal. Also Google do not count Google Docs, Sheets, Slides and Forms towards the storage limit. So that’s unlimited too.

    If you mean other file types (PDFs, images over 16 MP, etc) then I don’t know any other storage system that would give you free unlimited storage. It’s just not viable long term as there are running costs to consider at a minimum.

  63. Alan Stainer says

    Shane Lear I think free unlimited photo storage for anything up to and including 16 MP (via Google Photos) is a pretty good deal. Also Google do not count Google Docs, Sheets, Slides and Forms towards the storage limit. So that’s unlimited too.

    If you mean other file types (PDFs, images over 16 MP, etc) then I don’t know any other storage system that would give you free unlimited storage. It’s just not viable long term as there are running costs to consider at a minimum.

  64. Alan Stainer says

    Shane Lear I think free unlimited photo storage for anything up to and including 16 MP (via Google Photos) is a pretty good deal. Also Google do not count Google Docs, Sheets, Slides and Forms towards the storage limit. So that’s unlimited too.

    If you mean other file types (PDFs, images over 16 MP, etc) then I don’t know any other storage system that would give you free unlimited storage. It’s just not viable long term as there are running costs to consider at a minimum.

  65. Shane Lear says

    AOL and Yahoo both offer free unlimited email storage. I’ve used Gmail since it’s inception and it takes up most of my allotted Google space, so I pay an additional $100 a year to free up space for other Google services like Drive and Photos (original size pics) and Music. If Gmail did the same, that wouldn’t be necessary.

  66. Shane Lear says

    AOL and Yahoo both offer free unlimited email storage. I’ve used Gmail since it’s inception and it takes up most of my allotted Google space, so I pay an additional $100 a year to free up space for other Google services like Drive and Photos (original size pics) and Music. If Gmail did the same, that wouldn’t be necessary.

  67. Shane Lear says

    AOL and Yahoo both offer free unlimited email storage. I’ve used Gmail since it’s inception and it takes up most of my allotted Google space, so I pay an additional $100 a year to free up space for other Google services like Drive and Photos (original size pics) and Music. If Gmail did the same, that wouldn’t be necessary.

  68. Shane Lear says

    AOL and Yahoo both offer free unlimited email storage. I’ve used Gmail since it’s inception and it takes up most of my allotted Google space, so I pay an additional $100 a year to free up space for other Google services like Drive and Photos (original size pics) and Music. If Gmail did the same, that wouldn’t be necessary.

  69. Shane Lear says

    AOL and Yahoo both offer free unlimited email storage. I’ve used Gmail since it’s inception and it takes up most of my allotted Google space, so I pay an additional $100 a year to free up space for other Google services like Drive and Photos (original size pics) and Music. If Gmail did the same, that wouldn’t be necessary.

  70. Shane Lear says

    AOL and Yahoo both offer free unlimited email storage. I’ve used Gmail since it’s inception and it takes up most of my allotted Google space, so I pay an additional $100 a year to free up space for other Google services like Drive and Photos (original size pics) and Music. If Gmail did the same, that wouldn’t be necessary.

  71. Shane Lear says

    AOL and Yahoo both offer free unlimited email storage. I’ve used Gmail since it’s inception and it takes up most of my allotted Google space, so I pay an additional $100 a year to free up space for other Google services like Drive and Photos (original size pics) and Music. If Gmail did the same, that wouldn’t be necessary.

  72. Shane Lear says

    AOL and Yahoo both offer free unlimited email storage. I’ve used Gmail since it’s inception and it takes up most of my allotted Google space, so I pay an additional $100 a year to free up space for other Google services like Drive and Photos (original size pics) and Music. If Gmail did the same, that wouldn’t be necessary.

  89. Jean-Loup Rebours-Smith says

    Email storage means nothing if you can’t use that storage for anything else. In other words if you need something like a cloud backup solution you won’t find any provider that gives you tons or even unlimited storage for free

  90. Jean-Loup Rebours-Smith says

    Email storage means nothing if you can’t use that storage for anything else. In other words if you need something like a cloud backup solution you won’t find any provider that gives you tons or even unlimited storage for free

  91. Jean-Loup Rebours-Smith says

    Email storage means nothing if you can’t use that storage for anything else. In other words if you need something like a cloud backup solution you won’t find any provider that gives you tons or even unlimited storage for free

  92. Jean-Loup Rebours-Smith says

    Email storage means nothing if you can’t use that storage for anything else. In other words if you need something like a cloud backup solution you won’t find any provider that gives you tons or even unlimited storage for free

  93. Jean-Loup Rebours-Smith says

    Email storage means nothing if you can’t use that storage for anything else. In other words if you need something like a cloud backup solution you won’t find any provider that gives you tons or even unlimited storage for free

  94. Jean-Loup Rebours-Smith says

    Email storage means nothing if you can’t use that storage for anything else. In other words if you need something like a cloud backup solution you won’t find any provider that gives you tons or even unlimited storage for free

  95. Jean-Loup Rebours-Smith says

    Email storage means nothing if you can’t use that storage for anything else. In other words if you need something like a cloud backup solution you won’t find any provider that gives you tons or even unlimited storage for free

  96. Jean-Loup Rebours-Smith says

    Email storage means nothing if you can’t use that storage for anything else. In other words if you need something like a cloud backup solution you won’t find any provider that gives you tons or even unlimited storage for free