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Why are you using the web interface... It's only meant for light usage. For any heavy usage, get a sync client, either the official Backup and Sync or a third party client like rclone.

If you're downloading large amount of data, you don't use the web interface, which is only meant for light usage. You either use official sync clients Backup and Sync or Drive File Stream, or you use third party clients like rclone. There's no "processing" or "zipping" with these methods.

You can't do this with Drive File Stream.

A third parity client may be your best option if you really want to ensure all data is synced locally. I suggest you take a look at rclone (FOSS, but no real-time sync) and insync (one-time fee 30 USD per account).

Are people backing up their external drives to Google Drive? - Yes, many.

Do you need Google's Backup and Sync, or Google Drive at all, to backup external drives? - Not at all. With Rclone (and other similar third-party clients), you can backup external files to almost any cloud storage providers.

This is an extra step but you could open the file in Google docs, select all the text, copy it and paste it into a text editor app on your phone. Not exactly what you are looking for but it would work right?
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.JellyBeanUser.apk.app.editor

Hi

Just coming back to this.

This is what my back up sync preferences look like at the moment, I've checked "Upload newly added photos and videos to Google Photos" and set my photo and video upload size to "High Quality".

However, photos I copy to my google drive folder on the computer are still using up storage space (checked using the method you suggested). I then tried uploading via the browser but it is still the same!

Edit: Ok, I just realised my https://photos.google.com/settings has "Google Drive: Sync photos & videos from Google Drive" unchecked. I'm guessing this needs to be checked for this to work.

Edit 2: Tried it with this option checked and it is still counting against my storage :(

I'm tempted to just back up all my photos, delete everything from google drive and make a clean start.

Thanks

How do you do it for an entire folder in windows 10? I know you can do it via shortcuts but these portable apps call for files/settings from absolute paths.

I am running apps like this: https://portableapps.com/apps

My end goal is to run run these apps from my gdrive folder, whether it it is on the C drive (ssd), E drive (HDD), or some random drive letter like a usb device.

Go here: Apps with Google Account Access

I had to sync Google Drive to my computer, and use a program to scan files to see where the storage was being used. Ridiculous that Google makes this such a chore so they can sell you more cloud space. (There are plenty of programs to do so, I used this: WinDirStat)

A tool like WebDrive would work perfectly here--does all that you need. It can also transfer files directly between your computer and Google Drive (both directions) and can connect to other cloud storages or on-premise servers as well, all within the Windows Explorer interface.

Yes i googled a bit about it and i think Cyberduck already has feature of cryptomator if i m not wrong , i found info from here , but tutorial saying that i unable to access to windows explorer in Cyberduck , which is not good :(

could you please tell me what is max file size for uploading to gdrive and what file extensions should be mkv/mp4 or rar ?

and can i seed my files again on p2p trackers if i backup from gdrive , is there no issue of file hash change after encryption/decryption etc .... ?

Thanks a lot for your help!

Thanks for sharing. Recently I found a free app called MultCloud and it really helped me a lot! One of my friends suggested it to me and I fell in love with it immediately, I’m surprised by this product as it is super easy to use. It allows me to migrate numerous files to G Drive by simply clicking a few buttons. 😊 So I want to share it with you guys, hope it can be helpful. Also, I got one tutorial from the official website for everybody as I was starting MultCloud with these articles, you guys might wanna check it. 👉👉 Transfer Google Drive to Another Account

I have one more idea...

Try using Multcloud. You can set up both Drive accounts and then transfer. You can use the free plan. It will limit the number of simultaneous transfers but it should get the job done.

https://www.multcloud.com/product

Cloud Sync

MultCloud syncs two clouds or directories in two cloud accounts through one-way sync or two-way sync. One-way sync includes simple sync, mirror sync, move sync, cumulative sync, update sync, incremental backup sync and full backup sync all nine ways.

https://www.multcloud.com/#add_drive

Since I've seen other posts somewhere else and people are confused: when you pay $5/year, it only increases your drive storage quota from 15G (free quota) to 20G, not 15G to 35G.

So no you did not get extra 20G, you got extra 5G. If you check your storage on https://one.google.com/storage (click on the ! icon), you should see "Drive plan compensation bonus" which is your extra 5G.

Don't be confused with some other entries there, e.g. "Paid user bonus". I've seen people assuming that you sum all "Paid user bonus" and "Drive plan compensation bonus" to 20G and that's the extra 20G. Nope.

If it's videos and photos you have backup up elsewhere then you may want to delete them from Drive to save space. Personally, I think it's worth paying a little to have more storage and store the originals. 1TB Drive plans are about to double to 2TB for the same price: https://one.google.com/getupdates

>https://www.google.com/drive/download/backup-and-sync/

Right. That's the app I downloaded. But that syncs it with one computer. I want to sync across two computers so everything is synced on the two computers and that specific folder in my Google Drive. How do I do that?

> move the entire folder over to a local machine and reupload

This is the simplest though not the most efficient method. It certainly works.

A more efficient method: have your graphic designer put all her files into a single folder, then share that folder to your account. On your account, use rclone to bulk copy this folder. The new copy would be owned by you.

As always, I recommend using rclone.

Use rclone browser for a simple GUI (with limited features) if you're not comfortable with the command line.

It's hard to say then. I don't use the folder download option in the web UI often.

If you're comfortable with command line interfaces, I'd suggest using rclone to list folder content and batch download. It's a very useful tool for diagnosing problems.

Otherwise, using the official sync client (Backup and Sync) to download the folder is another viable choice.

There are many open source software that can help you do this, generally described by the phrase "Google Drive mounting".

In particular, rclone is a popular FOSS that supports mount.

It's not easy to do with Google Drive's filesystem.

rclone is very good for diagnosing sync issues (and many other tasks). Use the rclone check command.

The simplest option is probably rclone.

It's a command line tool, and not a real-time sync client, but it can do one-way sync just fine. You can run it once in a while to keep files synced.

Real-time sync is still possible but much more ~~difficult~~ cumbersome in your use case.

Hello,

I would recommend you pCloud (https://pcloud.com) They are a cloud storage thats similar to Dropbox etc. but much better actually.

They have a Virtual Drive which actually extends your PC memory and does not duplicate the files on your System as other cloud storages.

You can sync your folders with this drive so anytime you make a change is automatically synced in the cloud to.

Also this means you can work on your files, pictures or whatever directly from the cloud without having to download the files first. Which is the most awesome feature for me.

You have access from all your devices. There are apps.

As for Encryption they have pCloud Crypto (https://www.pcloud.com/crypto) which is a client side encryption method. This means the files are encrypted on your device and the already encrypted ones are sent to their servers which is awesome because even they dont know what your files are. Not like MEGA, Spideroak etc.

They are up to 1 TB but they can give you whatever you want if you ask for it (I have 6 TB)

Try it out :)

Good luck!

You may be interested in Duplicati, probably the only good option that is both free and has a built-in GUI.

There are other options with third party GUI layered on top of them. I believe rclone also has one.

I personally use CryptSync. It automatically packs each of my files into a password-protected (AES encrypted) 7z archive. You can decrypt any file anywhere as long as you have a file archiver (7-Zip, WinRAR, etc.) that supports the 7z format.

I choose this method because it has very good portability. 7z is well supported on all platforms by many different software. But it is probably not the most convenient method.

More convenient methods typically involves a dedicated suite of software. Most popularly Cryptomator. It has software/apps on all major platforms that can access and decrypt your files more seamlessly. However, their file format isn't typically supported by other software.

> when I access files via the drive stream ... some files fail on reading/copying

This isn't due to corruption. Google Drive, because it's in the cloud, has high latency. Your local programs (e.g. explorer) do not expect this. When they read a file with a local path, they expect quick access. If there's a long delay (like Google Drive can be), they assume something is wrong, and will fail on you.

There are many third party clients that can handle Google Drive bulk downloads better. rclone and FreeFileSync for example.

I assume you're using Backup & Sync, which is a real-time sync client by design.

You're basically looking for an on-demand sync client. Checkout rclone or FreeFileSync for example. Once set up, you can run them on a scheduler.

You could try the Rainbow app. It supports connecting to as many accounts as you wish, and it is trivial to switch from one account to the other.

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Rainbow on Google Play

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