Google Drive Synchronization

[Fidelia Boldul]

Im new to Dropbox. I own three computers--a Home PC, Office PC, and laptop. I got Dropbox to achieve two main goals--1) to have backup security against data loss and (2) be able to access and work with data from any of my computers in an an efficient, organized way from any workstation.

First, on my Home PC, I use solid state C: drive for operating system & programs and drive for data. I think my PC puts Desktop, Documents, and Downloads on C: although I don't create much data outside drive. My question is whether Dropbox can Sync or Backup from Desktop, Documents, and Downloads on C: AND my data on D:? I don't want to go down this road and find a dead end.

Second, assuming that my question above does not lead to a dead end, then how might I best achieve my two goals? Is Sync or Backup better for this? Should I turn on sync on all three computers? Will that result in the My Dropbox Home Page listing the three computer names/identifiers--so that I can click on one name to get into the attached files? In advance, Sync would seem more straightforward and intuitive, but I worry that a mistaken deletion on DB or PC will just sync by deleting in the other location. I guess I'm wanting my files to live in two places--local and cloud--in a way that helps keep data safe and allows access from multiple locations.

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I believe I'm trying to do the same thing you described in your original post: backup folders that are primarily on my D drive, and a few on my C drive. I only see options in the Dropbox Desktop App to backup a handful of common folders on my C drive (e.g., Desktop, Documents, Downloads, etc.). Did you figure out how to add other folders to your backup that aren't available in the checklist? Were you able to add folders from your D drive as well?

That's super helpful to know. Thanks for confirming. As I don't want to move things around unnecessarily, and all of my important data is on my (internal) D drive, I've opted to subscribe to Carbonite, which handles my use case nicely.

I find that to be very helpful. I appreciate your confirmation. Due to the fact that my important data resides on my (internal) D drive, and I don't want to move things unnecessarily, I have decided to subscribe to Carbonite.

Synchronize Bitrix24 Drive files and folders with your computer. Synchronization works both ways. After you edit files on your computer, the changes will be automatically applied to files stored on your Bitrix24 Drive, and vice versa.

Here you can also enable the elastic drive option. It is a special way of synchronizing your files. When this option is enabled, files are not downloaded to your hard drive but take the form of shortcuts. They are downloaded as soon as you open them.

In the Synchronization settings tab, specify folders that will be synchronized with your computer. You can sync both private and shared folders. The Uploaded files folder is not synced as it contains files uploaded from your computer.

Deleted file recovery. If you delete a file from your Bitrix24 Drive, it may reappear there. For example, user A deleted a file. At the same time or shortly thereafter, user B starts full synchronization. The Synchronize all option starts the full reconciliation of the local sync folder with Bitrix24 Drive. Thus, the deleted file will be restored in Bitrix24 Drive.

File version conflict. Conflict happens when two users simultaneously edit the same file with Drive synchronization enabled. The desktop app syncs the latest version of the file. Another version will be kept locally on another user's computer. Such a local copy includes the user name in the file name, for example, Contract (Stacy Smith).

To enable synchronization, open the desktop app and click on the cloud icon in the top-right corner. In the pop-up window, click the three dots (...) button, select your profile, and click Bitrix24 Drive settings.

Hello AT community! I have a table that automatically syncs to a Google Drive folder on regular intervals that was working until a few days ago. Now the automatic sync fails and when I manually kick off a sync with "Sync now" I get an error message saying "Unable to sync new data". If I go to "Update sync configuration", my Google Drive source is inactive and an error message reads "Unable to sync this source. Unable to sync new data"

Nothing has changed with the configuration of the Google Drive and I am able to connect to it just fine outside of AT using the same credentials. I have tried connecting to a different Google Drive folder as a test, but I get the same error.

I'm sorry that I don't have the answer to help you out. You may want to try emailing sup...@airtable.com for help, but they have stopped giving technical support for all plans except for Business & Enterprise workspaces.

The only thing that I could recommend would be to try using Make's Google Drive modules to create your own synchronization process between Google Drive and Airtable. This is what I've setup for many of my Airtable consulting clients, and even though it takes a little bit of time to setup, one long-term advantage is that it is much more powerful & customizable than Airtable's built-in Google Drive Sync.

OH, and at least for one of my phones - it would NOT work when syncing to GDrive to my SD card. Even when I gave Joplin the permission to use the SD card it would not cooperate and complained it could not read or write the sync files. I suspect the problem is with the OS. Internal storage worked fine in both my Android phones.

Yep, any client without access to a particular Cloud drives API would have to use some other method. It should be the same as the GDrive method, just substitute that drive's sync folder for your chosen cloud drive client. Provided ALL your computers / devices can access the drive it should work.

Since I wrote this I've had a few disastrously failures using File Sync over a cloud drive. I got fouled up syncs a few times. So, I begrudgingly switched to using OneDrive for direct sync and have not had an issue with it since. It chaps my XXX to use OneDrive, I am loathe to use OneDrive but it works. I have few enough notes that it does not even come close to touching the limit of the free account. I am waiting for MS to screw this up or drop the free accounts. After that I think I will switch to manually syncing. This too is not available to Linux as AFAIK, MS never opened OneDrive up toe Linux clients.

However, as all the embeds in this old article about the filesystem tool now show a Google Drive folder syncing app called "AutoSync" (ironically another name applicable to both filesystems and cars) it seems safe to assume that it's the current version of the app referred to in the OP comment by @Rootman.

No, I've not tried. I simply use OneDrive for now. I don't want to have a server running all the time while I'm away from home so I can sync all my devices on the fly. Sure shootin' if I need some critical note later in the day I need it to sync with my phone so I have it. There are plenty of times that I create a note for technical info and need it right away on one of my phones.

Drive Synchronization lets you mark some workspaces or folders to synchronize on the Nuxeo Platform web interface. Documents are saved on your computer so you can access them and work on them offline. The next time you have an Internet connection, changes in your local folder are uploaded to the Nuxeo Platform and changes on the server are also automatically downloaded to your computer.

When you install Nuxeo Drive on your computer, it creates a "Nuxeo Drive" folder on your computer, from where you will be able to access the synchronized documents. This Nuxeo Drive folder is located:

Starting from Nuxeo Platform 6.0, you can synchronize spaces on which you have at least Read permissions. For older versions of the Nuxeo Platform, you need at least Edit permissions to be able to synchronize a space.

The folder and all its content is now available in your local Nuxeo Drive folder. You can now create, edit, delete documents from your computer. If you only have Read permissions, documents are in read-only mode.

In the Administration menu > Nuxeo Drive, the space is displayed in the "Synchronization root" section. This is where you can see all the spaces you have synchronized with Nuxeo Drive.

If a synchronized folder holds big document or a large amount of documents, synchronization can take some time and some computer resources. It is then possible to prevent this by suspending synchronization until a more convenient time.

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