Oct 15, 2017 Also, the best wording would have been: 'Google Drive application is being replaced by Backup & Sync for Google Drive' since it's only that version of the client side app that is 'going away', not the service and Cloud Storage space. Google has been moving away from its Drive app for both PCs and Macs, and now the platform has an official end date. Today, Google officially announced that it will be stopping support for the Google Drive app for both PCs and Macs beginning December 11, 2017.
Time to say good bye to the Google Drive app. Google announced the backup program has three months to live. But don't panic, it's actually not that big of a deal. You see, the whole cloud storage space known as Google Drive, that's still alive. What is going away is the app called Google Drive.
And that's used to backup your computer's files to the cloud. The naming of it is all a bit messy. Google Drive, the app, is being replaced by a program called Backup and Sync. Now this new program is pretty handy. You tell it which folders on your computer you want to sync to the cloud, even make all your photos and videos automatically back up to the Google Photos Library. So you could use this to have important folders to be continuously backed up to your Drive account, but that means you'll quickly exceed the 15 gigs of free space and you'll need to pay for more. The old app no longer will be supported UNKNOWN On December 11th.
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And it will be shut down completely in March of next year. But you can install the new backup and sync now instead of waiting until the last minute.
I'm Bridget Carey. For more details head to cnet.com. Tech Industry Google Drive Google.