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However, if anyone has any insight into that I'd appreciate hearing it. That might be because Drive for Desktop had the files locked for some reason, so I'll look more into that myself before I ask for an answer. (3) My final problem is that some of the files could not be opened on one computer or the other during the file compare.

In my mind, if the files are mirrored on both computers, then their names should be identical on both computers.

#Sync google drive with pc Pc#

Why do I say that? Because on my old PC 'File.doc' compares exactly with 'File (1).doc' on the new PC, and 'File (1).doc' on the old PC compares exactly with 'File.doc' on the new PC. That is, they were named, for example, 'File.doc' and 'File (1).doc'., and it appears that Drive for Desktop is responsible for their names. (B) The other eight files had similar names, and by similar I mean almost identical. (A) One of the files just had a different file length, even though its filename on both computers was the same, so it should have compared with no differences. However, there were nine files that do matter. (2) Thirty-three files were reported to have different lengths, but most of these were 'desktop.ini' files used by Windows, so they don't matter. That response is beyond me, for what it's worth, but I won't digress about it, at least not now. The person I talked to on the help line said the screen shot was too technical for him and wanted me to send him a video showing why the files were different.

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Therefore, if you only wish to sync selected Google Photos to PC, then why not directly download them from the Drive. I called the Google help line for this (and what is below), and I also uploaded a screen shot of the output from the file compare program. Most of the users of Google Photos take the assistance of its web-based platform to quickly upload or sync their pictures. (1) Two of the files were mismatched on the two computers. After the sync was finished I did a file compare of both computers and found several problems. The old PC had a lot of files mirrored on Drive for Desktop, so I installed Drive for Desktop on the new PC, set it up so the files were also mirrored and let the files sync on My Drive.

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All I need to do is edit the keynote file on my home computer in my Google Drive and they are automatically updated to the desktop folder of the church computer.I am moving another user from an old PC to a new one, both with Windows 10. I use this to put keynote presentations on our church laptop for each Sunday. I suggest making a folder in your desktop computer on the target computer and using that to sync files.

If you put a file just on the desktop it may or may not sync.

So you can drag files in and out of the folder and it will sync.

If you put a folder into your desktop folder on the target computer, all the files will be synced properly.

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It’s the only way I know of remotely changing files on a Mac desktop. This is an undocumented feature that I stumbled across. Google Drive offers you the possibility to synchronize local files on your PC. Now if you sync your Google Drive to other computers you can access and change your desktop folder on your target computer! It creates a link to it.ĭrag your ‘desktop’ folder into ‘My Drive’ folder to share it with other computers. This creates an alias of your desktop folder in your Google drive.

In the left sidebar, find your computer, then find the desktop folder, and then drag the ‘desktop’ folder up into your ‘Google Drive’ folder.

Log into your Google Drive in your web browser (Safari or Chrome). (t will not yet be accessible to other computers.)

Go to the dropdown menu from this icon called ‘preferences’, and select the option to sync your Desktop folder, as below: Your desktop will now sync with your google drive.

A new Google backup icon will appear in your top Menu bar.

(You may need to go to System Prefs and enable non-app store apps to do this.)

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On your target computer install google backup and sync.Use ‘Google Drive’ to access your Target desktop folder remotely. Home computer: the computer you are at now. Use ‘Backup and Sync’ to sync the desktop folder of your target computer. Target computer: the computer that you want to put items into the desktop of. You can use ‘Google Backup and Sync’ to sync your OS X desktop folder to the cloud, and then, with a little trick, access that desktop folder from your ‘Google Drive’ other computers, so that you can put files onto the desktop of you computer remotely. This may well be my most exciting OS X discovery of the year.