We could stream all our company files without having to take up individual computer resources and collaborate on documents from any work location. So, a solution was needed to be able to stream documents to several individuals in different work locations so that everyone could collaborate on files, avoid the necessity to download any files unless they wanted to work on them offline and free up their personal computer resources to work more efficiently.Įnter G-Suite Shared Drive (Team Drive, as it was once called) Adobe file extensions and PowerPoint are the main ones that come to mind. Since we weren’t just using Google Docs, Sheets, Slides etc., we couldn’t just be online and work directly in the documents, many had to be downloaded in order to work in their respective software platforms. Since we had approximately 1 TB of files stored on Google Drive, downloading that much data onto individual computers caused performance problems for individuals as their computer memory began to become overloaded. Why? Because depending on how many files they downloaded, their own computers’ hard drive began to fill up.

Even when they could sync up their own Google account and get access to the Shared Folder on their own computer, it was still a problem. This was obviously an inefficient process.

However, other employees had to download the files to their computer, work on them and then upload them back to Google Drive. They would then sync to the Google Drive folder in the cloud and it was a nice process.

Since I was the account holder, I had the Backup and Sync program running to be able to access the files more easily on my own computer. Because we work with numerous companies that hire a marketing agency like ours, we had several employees accessing My Drive which had been shared with them to collaborate on different work projects. If you are like me, you likely have been using Google Drive, or My Drive as it is sometimes called, to store your work and personal files. The answer is an annoying no and yes, but you’re not going to like the yes part.īackground On Why We Needed Google Shared Drive

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