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Uploading large files to Google Drive

This is Google's service for online storage. Due to launching it too hastily, the large file upload and sync service is quite poor.

But because it's Google, it will grow and it's not a bad idea for anyone to make their change from Google Docs to Google Drive.

To date, no one removes the privilege DropBox, which in terms of load and sync is a wonder, with space limiting.

A 45MB file can take up to two hours on Google Drive to load, and syncing doesn't send a signal of how it's going. Let's not say a 300 MB file.

Right now that I'm preparing the AutoCAD 2013 Course, which I will be able to download, I have seen as one of the two discs of the course which includes 14 300 MB partitions have been uploaded in Dropbox in a span of 54 minutes, while in Google Drive it has been a two night calamity to climb a couple of files.

While Google improves that, here's a trick to solve the slowness of Google Drive:

CloudHQ

This is a synchronization service between online storage accounts, which exaggerates in a positive way what we could expect:

You can link not only Google Drive / Docs accounts, but also Dropbox, SugarSync, Basecamp, Evernote, Box and Salesforce.

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The application of Crhome is very practical, which allows running processes efficiently and in the background. When you open Google Drive, a vertical Dropbox window appears, so that from here you can manage the contents stored in both spaces.

To join this service, you just have to use the Google user and then drag the services that we want to include. In this case I have selected Dropbox and Google Drive.

Once linked, you can do between an account and other things like MOVER, CopyAlso Download even visualize. To my surprise, I copied a 45 MB file from DropBox to Google Drive in just 43 seconds.

There are different plans, but for basic purposes the free version is sufficient. For 15 days you can enjoy the Premium version as a trial.

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Then sync between the Dropbox account and Google Drive, over 9 GB with files larger than a GB, an hour and minutes.

I copied 9 files of 300 MB each, from Dropbox to Google Drive, and got a message: "The routine you have run will take more than two minutes, however it will be working in the background, when it is finished we will send you an email." In fact, a few minutes later I received the message that the copy had been made.

Maybe they are rustic examples of what I have tried, but it really has potential this service. 

 

So, I recommend registering. Not only to take advantage of this, but also because this may be the service that we use to download the AutoCAD 2013 Course, which from next week will be able to download, by section, by chapter and the entire course.

Register on CloudHQ

Golgi Alvarez

Writer, researcher, specialist in Land Management Models. He has participated in the conceptualization and implementation of models such as: National Property Administration System SINAP in Honduras, Management Model of Joint Municipalities in Honduras, Integrated Cadastre-Registry Management Model in Nicaragua, Territory Administration System SAT in Colombia . Editor of the Geofumadas knowledge blog since 2007 and creator of the AulaGEO Academy that includes more than 100 courses on GIS - CAD - BIM - Digital Twins topics.

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2 Comments

  1. If you had read the article in 2007, when it was written, with what was Google Drive at that moment, you might think differently.

  2. Spectacular, all right, I think I'll use it. GREAT ENTRY Thank you!

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