Is Google Drive Down For Mac

Google has officially turned on Drive File Stream for all users, the company announced in a Wednesday, which also marked the eventual death of Drive for Mac and Drive for PC clients. 'With this launch, Google Drive for Mac/PC is officially deprecated,' the post said. 'It will no longer be supported starting on December 11th, 2017, and it will shut down completely on March 12th, 2018.'

Admins will begin to see settings for Drive File Stream under Apps > G Suite > Drive and Docs > Data Access as well. However, the settings will not go into effect until September 26—the day that Drive File Stream becomes generally available.

Google Drive the service is not going away. The client software you install on your PC has just changed. Instead of the software being called Google Drive it is now called Google Backup and Sync. Everything else is the same.

SEE: (Tech Pro Research). If a user is already running both Drive File Stream and Backup and Sync on their computer, Google will prompt them to cancel the sync between their Drive and Backup and Sync. The news also has some impact on Team Drives as well. 'Team Drive editors won't be able to edit their Team Drive files when they're opened in Drive File Stream; they'll only be able to view them,' the post said. 'To edit these files, they'll need to open them in Drive on the web.' If you want to wait it out, Google will remind you of the end of life dates sometime in October, the post said.

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The 3 big takeaways for TechRepublic readers • Google is turning on Drive File Stream for all users as a replacement for Drive for Mac/PC. • Support for Drive for Mac/PC will end on December 11, 2017 and the service will shut down completely on March 12th, 2018. • Team Drive editors won't be able to edit Team Drives in Drive File Stream, they'll need to use the Drive web client.

The aging Google Drive app for desktop is officially deprecated as of today, Google. Support will be cut off on December 11th and the app will shut down completely on March 12th, 2018.

Users who are still running the Drive app will start seeing notifications in October that it’s “going away,” and the company will steer customers towards one of two replacements depending on whether they’re a consumer or business user. Google Drive the service isn’t going anywhere. You can still access it from the web, smartphone apps, and either of the software options mentioned below. Google now has two fairly new software tools for backing up your data and/or accessing files in the cloud., the all-encompassing consumer app that replaces both the standalone Google Drive and Google Photos Uploader apps.

It offers essentially the same functionality as Drive and works much the same way. And on the enterprise side, Google has rolled out Drive File Stream, which saves space on your local drive while providing access to “all of your Google Drive files on demand, directly from your computer.” It’s a much more elegant and integrated approach. “Say goodbye to time-consuming file syncing and any concerns about disk space,” Google says of the benefits that Drive File Stream introduces. There are some differences between the apps; both can do one or two things that the other can’t, so check out to see which is the better fit. For most people the Backup and Sync option is probably it, though power users have complained about its lack of support for NAS drives.