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You can also move entire folders in your Google Drive.

Within file size and space limits, anything you can store on your hard drive can also be stored in a cloud drive. Just to be clear: I can store any file? Any folder? Files accessed directly from cloud-based services, like Google Docs, don't suffer from this problem, since changes are made directly on the Web version of the file. Most cloud storage services will flag conflicts with file name or extension changes, but untangling conflicting files is never fun. There is a potential danger when using synchronization: If you update a file before your cloud service has sent you the latest version, you can end up with collisions or version conflicts. Google Drive, SkyDrive, Dropbox? Heck, use 'em all!.Google Drive: It's slick, integrated.and not exactly free.So you can start working on a file on one computer, close it, and then open it on a second computer, and what you'll see is the version you closed on the first one. When you use a synchronizing storage product, like Google Drive, any file you put in the drive, and anything you change that's stored in the drive, is automatically updated not just in the cloud but on all the other devices that you have connected to the Drive. They're also synchronized to your other computers that use Google Drive. If you open one, it'll open in the browser-based Google app.įiles that you drag into your Drive from your hard disk are actually copied to the cloud. Rather, what you see in your Google Drive are links to your files. For the time being, while you can see documents created or shared with you using the Google Docs tools in your Google Drive on your computers, the data in those files is not stored or copied to your computers.