The new Drive for desktop will allow users to upload and sync photos and videos to Google Photos and/or Google Drive, sync external storage devices to the cloud (including flash drives and external hard drives), and allow users to Mirror Drive files on your desktop, which stores files on a local device and enables quicker access to content.
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In addition to allowing any Windows or macOS machine to access content equally, Drive for desktop also automatically syncs local files to the cloud in the background, which Google says will minimize the time needed to wait for files to sync. “Now, we’re unifying these sync clients into the new Drive for desktop, bringing people the best and most used features from both Backup and Sync and Drive File Stream.” Update 7/12: With the rollout already under way for some. 1 level 1 wothco1 3m multiple accounts only work on the apple m1 release for 49.0.8.0. “Before launching Drive for desktop, we had two sync solutions available: Backup and Sync, which was built primarily for consumer users, and Drive File Stream, which was built for business users,” Google’s Product Management Lead for Google Drive Scott Limbird says. As of version 45, Drive File Stream is known as Google Drive for desktop, and the company will give three months' notice for Google Workspace admins and end users before the deadline to transition. I spoke with this senior support person and he told me that the rollout for the version 45 of Drive File Stream, now called: Drive for Desktop, was announced on Jan 11th, however, the Engineering team faced some issues with it and quit the propagation of the new changes to all affected devices.This is the reason why you cannot use Drive FS for now. The new Google Drive for desktop that replaces Backup and Sync by adding automatic Google Photos upload is now appearing for some users. This is part of a new Google Drive for Desktop experience that Google is slowly rolling out.