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Last week our internet was down, and I went to access a file in my Google Drive, and I could see it, but not access it without a web connection. Each have their advantage, and I use both.Īnother big point of difference is that Google Drive requires an active internet connection. It feels like a foreign hard drive that is out there in the cloud and you happen to have access to it from your computer. It’s more like copying the file to a thumb drive.īecause of this difference in the way they behave, Dropbox feels like it’s a folder on your computer like any other folder, it just happens to be shared with others. (The file is not copied, it is moved.) But when you drag a file into your Google Drive it doesn’t move the file, it creates a copy of the file. When you move a file into dropbox the file is moved into dropbox, like you would expect if you were moving a file into a different folder. Google Drive is similar but different to dropbox. It looks like a regular hard drive and the contents of the folder are automatically available to anyone else who has access to the same Google Drive. You can mount a ‘Google Drive’ onto you Mac, it’s a neat cloud based storage solution from Google.