Mar 2, 2018 - dismiss this message. Bad news, Google Drive fans – the app is going away. Well, the deadline is quickly approaching: you have until March 11 to install Drive File. However, they are splitting into separate desktop apps. Google Backup and Sync is available for both Windows and Mac users.
Today the launch of new desktop application for Google Drive users, called Drive File Stream, which is now available to G Suite customers. The app will serve as a replacement for the Google Drive desktop app that will be shut down for good next year – a far enough date to give enterprise customers plenty of time to make the switch. The company related to this transition. Back in July, it would consolidate its desktop file sync applications for Google Drive and Google Photos for consumers into a single new app called “Backup and Sync” ahead of its plan to end support for the older Google Photos and Google Drive client apps for Mac and PC. Related to this, it said it would launch an enterprise solution called Drive File Stream, which would roll out to all G Suite customers at a later date. It also opened an Early Adopter Program for Drive File Stream at that time. A key difference between the consumer application and the enterprise version is the option for administrative control.
Departments starting today will see the settings for Drive File Stream appear in the Admin Console for their version of G Suite, says Google. This will allow them to and distribute the solution for their domain, including turning sync on, specifying how the software is installed, disabling Google Update if the company prefers manual updates, and managing other settings. While the Drive File Stream settings are appearing today, Google notes that they won’t go into effect until Tuesday, September 26th, when the solution becomes generally available. However, the launch of the settings signals the official deprecation for the tool File Stream replaces: Google Drive for Mac and PC. The older Google Drive desktop software will no longer be supported beginning on December 11th, 2017, and it will shut down completely on March 12th, 2018, Google says. The company also notes that users can choose to install the consumer-facing tool,, either as an alternative to or in addition to the Drive File Stream enterprise software.
Backup and Sync doesn’t support Google’s collaborative Team Drives, but it can be used along with Drive File Stream to sync other folders with Drive, like Documents and Desktop. However, it shares several features with File Stream, too. (Leave it to Google simplify things making two different tools that have overlapping features when trying to streamline its products.) To help with figuring out what tool does what, a comparison chart and other details about the differences between the two can be found. The launch news arrived alongside. Both Drive and Google Classroom were suffering outages this morning – the latter likely related to its use of Drive for saving attachments.
After a couple of hours, the issues were resolved.
As I logged into my work computer today, I noticed the pop up stating that Google Drive for Mac/PC is going away soon. Because I hadn't heard of this before AND because I was being asked to install a new app on my computer, I thought it best to do some investigation.
According to PC World magazine, Google is not making changes to the cloud service called Google Drive but rather to the app that you may have installed on your computer so that your files reside on your computer as well as in the cloud. This app, called Google Drive for Mac/PC, will cease to exist on March 12, 2018. However, it is being replaced by Drive File Stream. Drive File Stream is a new app that allows you to (kind of) share a hard drive between teams and organizations. All files will be kept in the cloud and will be available from anywhere.
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