Drive for Desktop divides your displayed files into two categories. The app is pretty straightforward and lives on your Menubar as yet another tiny icon. Within a second or two, the Drive for Desktop app changes to show you that it’s working… WORKING WITH GOOGLE “DRIVE FOR DESKTOP” APP I’m good so I’ll click on “ Sign In” to proceed, then sign in again to my account. Instead, get the app from Google! Remember, a dose of skepticism is a healthy addition to your Web and Internet experience. This is why you shouldn’t be trusting me to have clean and legit links to the Mac or Windows version of Drive for Desktop. Is it because it’s accessing Google Drive? Probably. Then there’s a most interesting warning that pops up, one I haven’t seen in other Google related programs.

I’ll choose my usual Google account to proceed. In other words, I click on the “ sign in with browser” button and the following prompt then appears in my Web browser, not in the app itself: Interestingly, it actually uses your default Web browser for login confirmation. Once it’s installed the program will launch and prompt you to sign in to your Google account: Then you’ll confirm that yes, you do want to install the program, and it’ll start downloading files… Once you’ve downloaded the program all you have to do is double-click on the installer package (on Windows it will probably automatically open and launch). I won’t give you the direct download links (they’re in the first paragraph of the above referenced page) but I can walk you through the install and show you how it works! Let’s do it… INSTALLING GOOGLE DRIVE FOR DESKTOP MAC

Available for both Mac and Windows, it’s not yet an official release, so you’ll have to go to the Google Drive blog and grab the latest build from this page: Sync content across all devices with Drive for desktop. That’s why it’s good to know that Google has a third gen solution to the problem and it’s in what appears to be late beta: Drive for Desktop. The most recent program was Backup and Sync, but it certainly doesn’t fit the bill for “simple, seamless” in the way the other services have done on desktop systems. Apple does it with iCloud, DropBox does it, plenty of cloud storage services have this feature, but Google Drive? So far, the company’s released a couple of different programs, none of which quite delivered what users wanted. Ya have to give ’em credit, Google keeps trying to figure out how to have Google Drive show up on your computer as just another drive.

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