Google borks its Drive Windows app – after pushing out unfinished buggy version to public • The Register Forums

Thursday 16th March 2017 20:54 GMT J.Smith

Not just MS

I see, it's not just evil MS that &%$*-up things.

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1. Thursday 16th March 2017 21:07 GMT bazza
  
  Re: Not just MS
  
  Seemingly not.
  
  Doesn't look like the Chocolate Factory have their A team working on this thing. Which is a bit odd.
  
  If they wanted to be taken seriously as a provider of stuff for business, to have one major component of their offering (Google Drive) effectively useless on one of the major OSes for businesses (Windows) means the whole thing is not worth it.
  
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  1. Thursday 16th March 2017 23:05 GMT TReko
    
    Re: Not just MS
    
    Google is fortunate in that most of their software is on the cloud. So it is easier to undo cock-ups than if you've installed on client's desktops.
    
    That said, we stopped using Google's own Drive client a while ago and switched to SyncDocs for Drive which is way better, but not free.
    
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  2. Friday 17th March 2017 14:55 GMT Hans 1
    
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    >If they wanted to be taken seriously as a provider of stuff for business
    
    Who said Google Drive was for business ? It is not, nor is OneDrive, share documents much ? MS has admitted to having MS employees crawl through the stuff one puts on it ... you would not want to put sensitive corporate stuff on there, right ?
    
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2. Friday 17th March 2017 09:44 GMT RyokuMas
  
  Re: Not just MS
  
  Google are becoming more like the Microsoft of old with every passing incident.
  
  I'm just looking forward to the day when the Microsoft-hate-brigades who have been hailing Google as their champion for so long suddenly realise that their would-be saviour has actually put them in a worse place that Microsoft ever did...
  
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Friday 17th March 2017 10:31 GMT stephanh

What to use?

So the Windows version of Drive is "not getting much love from Google engineers", the Linux version is non-existing and the Mac version completely s*cks in my experience.

On what desktop platform is Google planning to provide a reasonable experience for Drive? RiscOS?

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1. Friday 17th March 2017 10:54 GMT tony2heads
  
  Re: What to use?
  
  https://github.com/Grive/grive
  
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2. Friday 17th March 2017 11:53 GMT Anonymous Coward
  
  Re: What to use?
  
  On what desktop platform is Google planning to provide a reasonable experience for Drive? RiscOS?
  
  ChromeOS of course silly.
  
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3. Friday 17th March 2017 13:45 GMT VinceH
  
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  "On what desktop platform is Google planning to provide a reasonable experience for Drive? RiscOS?"
  
  Please - no.
  
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Friday 17th March 2017 10:47 GMT Bloodbeastterror

After Google breaking Android Pay with a botched Nexus 6 March security update, a process which itself was botched (update pulled and later restored without explanation), it looks as if Google has problems with its quality control. Not impressive.

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1. Monday 20th March 2017 15:10 GMT Ron2016
  
  Not sure why so many people fan for Google.
  
  Looking for enterprise quality, they are far away to go.
  
  A lot of products are just raw, prototype class quality.
  
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Friday 17th March 2017 10:47 GMT sabroni

And if MS had pushed out (more) borked software?

You wouldn't be able to fucking move in here for smart arses gloating.

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Friday 17th March 2017 10:59 GMT Planty

and is known for being riddled with bugs

Hi!M. Mine just works, always has. There is some weirdness with 2FA interactions with my phone on initial setup, where i need to auth by text message rather than the play services authentication, but no biggie, aside from that 100% robust and reliable.

It also seems the "evidence" otherwise consists of just a broken link....

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Friday 17th March 2017 11:21 GMT JimmyPage

Seems the new paradigm ...

How much modern software would you trust to take into battle ?

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Friday 17th March 2017 11:25 GMT TeeCee

Not the first time Google have a shipped a "public Alpha" and I'm sure it won't be the last.

Still trying to work out whether they do this intentionally or not.

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Friday 17th March 2017 12:27 GMT patrickstar

This happening should tell a lot about how secure Google software updates actually are.

Signing a software update (they ARE signed and the signatures ARE checked, right?) should be a big deal. Involving several people authenticating themselves, physically at a HSM, after unlocking the safe/vault where it's kept. Not something you can do by accident without leaving the chair.

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Friday 17th March 2017 13:57 GMT szirpola

Drive still will not sync multiple files

Even after the upgrade some users will still get errors and are unable to sync..

Google Drive Error D41D "Unspecified Error" when trying to upload/sync large amount of files and the sync app quits.

Similar to https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/drive/mo298Ko1vUY and https://superuser.com/questions/1151723/google-drive-error-d41d-unspecified-error-when-trying-to-upload-sync-large-amo

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Friday 17th March 2017 15:40 GMT Anonymous Coward

Confidential UI?

I'm a bit troubled by that 'Confidential. Do not leak!' label.

It seems to suggest something more secretive than a simple WIP.

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