project

Google Drive for Desktop

Google's desktop client that mounts a user's Google Drive as a local folder and syncs files between the computer and the cloud.

Known aliases

Drive for Desktop

Relationships

No evidence-backed relationships are recorded.

Current clusters

build1 publisher

Writing in place keeps the Drive file ID that os.replace() resets on a Drive for Desktop mount

One developer's sync script for Google Drive for Desktop overwrites its shared file in place, after a temp-file rename gave the file a new Drive ID. Dropping the rename keeps the ID with no OAuth or network calls, at the cost of a mid-write window and any check for edits made elsewhere.

Publishers:dev.to

Reality

Evidence45
Adoption: Insufficient
Hype gap+5
Incentives: Insufficient
Confidence40