| How would you describe Google Drive to a new user? | Teresa - Docs & Drive Community Manager | 6/8/12 3:16 PM | Hey Drive community, I have two questions for you guys: - How would you explain Google Drive to a current Docs user? - How would you explain Google Drive to a brand-new user (who has never touched Docs)?I'd love to hear your thoughts! Teresa |
| Re: How would you describe Google Drive to a new user? | Google Drive - Ugh! | 6/8/12 4:11 PM | 1. It's very similar to Docs, only it DOESN'T WORK! Files are uneditable in most browsers and people are losing files altogether. BACK EVERYTHING UP SAFELY if you choose to try it! Wait until Google fixes the MANY bugs! Don't switch until you hav |
| Re: How would you describe Google Drive to a new user? | Bas Braams | 6/9/12 3:35 AM | Explaining Google Drive to a current Docs user; the elevator talk or just a bit more. Google Drive makes it possible to synchronize files and folders on a PC with files and folders in your Docs cloud; via the Docs cloud one can also synchronize sever |
| Re: How would you describe Google Drive to a new user? | christina729 | 6/14/12 7:02 PM | I can't explain G Drive to a G Docs user because it doesn't make any sense. I use G Docs to FREE UP space on my hard drive. I don't understand why I would need to syn my G Docs to my PC, but I downloaded the application because I thought I could sy |
| Re: How would you describe Google Drive to a new user? | 3amart | 6/18/12 1:55 PM | Hi Teresa, I am a long time Google Docs user and upgraded with a happy heart to Google Drive and wow what a bitter disappointment it is. The inability to edit spreadsheets seriously sucks and is majorly inconvenient. I have use my partner's computer |
| Re: How would you describe Google Drive to a new user? | radudorurus | 6/23/12 6:07 AM | 1. I never used online docs. I prefer my docs on my computer where is the safest place on earth (of course with a backup). 2. It's so simple. You have a folder on your computer which is synchronized on cloudstorage. You can access fron anywhere in th |
| Re: How would you describe Google Drive to a new user? | bgunnells | 6/23/12 10:50 AM | Awful |
| Re: How would you describe Google Drive to a new user? | WayTooManyUsernames | 6/24/12 9:37 AM | One word: confusing.Two words: completely confusing. While I use GDrive (and every other service that offers free on-line storage) I am baffled by Google's lack of intergration of its own services (Picasa, Music/Play, G+, G drive, GApps, etc). Google |
| Re: How would you describe Google Drive to a new user? | WayTooManyUsernames | 6/24/12 2:20 PM | Or, to put in another way. I think Google's free services are worth exactly what they charge for them: nothing. If Google ever managed to integrate them into one package, not only would I use them (I mean use them more than just a free archiving se |
| Re: How would you describe Google Drive to a new user? | BigMcGuire | 6/26/12 3:10 PM | Exactly, I'm a long time Google fan. Loved Android, Gmail, Docs, Voice, etc... I'm an IT guy as well as a software developer and TONS of people come to me for advice. If someone came to me asking me about Google Drive, I'd have to tell them: "Want to |
| Re: How would you describe Google Drive to a new user? | WayTooManyUsernames | 6/27/12 9:47 AM | I keep waiting for Google to tie-it-all-together. They have so many 'nice' (& free) services. I would really LOVE to use Google as my on-line environment for all things digital. As mentioned, I'd even be willing to pay for the integrated Google se |
| Re: How would you describe Google Drive to a new user? | pbft | 6/28/12 4:32 AM | For Docs users: Drive gives you the ability to create, access and modify MS Office and other non-Google format documents directly on your PC, and the changes sync automagically to the cloud. You get all the benefits of document sharing and backup wit |
| Re: How would you describe Google Drive to a new user? | LaunchpadMcQuack | 6/30/12 4:36 PM | WORST PIECE OF CRAP EVER! |
| Re: How would you describe Google Drive to a new user? | Papa Bear | 7/1/12 2:08 PM | 1) Checkout the Android or iOS Google Drive mobile apps Google Drive on Android http://support.google.com/drive/bin/topic.py?hl=en&topic=1361437&parent=2375071&ctx=topic Google's official Drive iOS 5.0+ app http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!c |
| Re: How would you describe Google Drive to a new user? | SFxoFFx | 7/10/12 5:48 PM | Hi, |
| Re: How would you describe Google Drive to a new user? | NealC20 | 7/13/12 12:13 PM | It's a great cloud storage network plus Google Docs, so you can create, edit, share, and store all in the same place on your own terms. The sharing capabilities are great and allow you to forgo the traditional email attachment or flash drive (forever |
| Re: How would you describe Google Drive to a new user? | Ryan Scott Causecast | 7/20/12 10:08 AM | Its more confusing than google docs was The difference between MY DRIVE and SHARED WITH ME is confusing, frankly. my drive, shared with me, don't really see why they'd be different. when i imagine the structure of all these files across my company w |
| Re: How would you describe Google Drive to a new user? | jta1954 | 7/23/12 1:31 AM | It is a good and cheap way to store your files online. I can get to those files on my PC, but also with my iphone and my (android) tablet.It has the same problems as other services (like dropbox and sugarsync), uploading is slow.There seems also to a |
| Re: How would you describe Google Drive to a new user? | Sduibek2 | 10/28/12 4:22 PM | Great in theory, but in current incarnation it's kind of garbage. 1) Trash until VERY recently was totally craptastic. Wouldn't delete items, would say they were deleted but they weren't, would re-create already-deleted items, and had no Delete All |
| Re: How would you describe Google Drive to a new user? | Allen M. | 11/2/12 9:26 PM | It's an incredibly slow place to upload your files online, providing you don't mind waiting forever for much to happen." |
| Re: How would you describe Google Drive to a new user? | jancombrink | 11/5/12 4:56 AM | Google Drive continuously fails to sync. I almost succeeded once, just to have a repeat of the problem again. On the net there is NO help from Google - who do you contact? I am paying for this! Even on the help website Google denies any responsib |
| Re: How would you describe Google Drive to a new user? | emjaysea | 12/3/12 6:02 AM | <This message has been deleted.> |
| Re: How would you describe Google Drive to a new user? | ★GA★ | 12/4/12 4:18 PM | Has too many errors, it delete files or duplicate files or rename files, does not sync all of the files, need much too much memory, too much cpu, no linux support, no way to control what is synced or not, no way to sync an existing gdrive-folder (lik |
| Re: How would you describe Google Drive to a new user? | cacharrete | 12/5/12 11:26 AM | Unrelaible, LOT OF BUGS, total fail. UNACCEPTABLE. Regards. |
| Re: How would you describe Google Drive to a new user? | DAS1951 | 12/5/12 1:23 PM | Emjaysea, it is NOT a backup service, even though so many people think it is. It is a file storage and sharing service (even if everything worked perfectly). Perhaps you have never tried a dedicated online backup service. Similar applies to Dropbox |
| Re: How would you describe Google Drive to a new user? | CNormile | 2/20/13 8:22 AM | |
| Re: How would you describe Google Drive to a new user? | CNormile | 2/20/13 8:24 AM | <This message has been deleted.> |