Google Drive was released to LBL on Tuesday, April 24, 2012. The blog post announcing the release is here.
The changes are twofold:
- A significant change to the Web User Interface (see picture below for the left hand sidebar)
- A completely new "desktop client sync" capability similar to Dropbox.
The Google Drive Help Center is here. One of the more interesting changes involves an increase in the number of viewers that are provided (like Photoshop, for example).
Google Drive is available for Mac and PCs - and is a combination of cloud based storage (similar to Dropbox) and what we all have in Google Docs. A 5 GB quota is the default for each user.
If you see a "Download Google Drive" link in your docs list (or you go to drive.google.com/start and download Google Drive), you can install the client software.
The sequence of screens that are presented when you download the google drive sync client for Windows.
A small dialogue box shows up to save the install exe.
Just type in your email address (no password) - you will be redirected to the labs single sign-on web site.
Enter your "LDAP" username and password.
The first of two install screens.
You can elect to change which of your google docs are part of the google drive sync. (it is recommended to just sync all of it).
Using Windows explorer, you can see your Google Drive "folder". You can create new folders in the Google Drive folder or just add files that reside elsewhere on your computer. Once added, they will be synced to the cloud.
Note, DO NOT place your Google Drive folder onto ANY shared drive. This will cause issues with Google Drive Sync.
