Since I get so much space with Google Drive, it didn’t even cost me anything! The Not So Dark Side of Cloud Storage I can keep hundreds of gigs of data in Google Drive without it taking up space on my Air, just like I did with my external drives. This doesn’t take any time since they’re already uploaded and synced with Google Drive.Īnd that’s it.
I move stuff I don’t need synced to my local drive into the “to move” folder and once every couple of weeks I login to Google Drive through the browser and move everything in the “to move” folder into their relative folders in the online structure. I split up my core directories like “work” and “photos” between the normal and the online folders. I then created a folder called “to move” and put that in the base directory of Drive.
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I then replicated most of my folder structure in Google Drive by creating folders for “photos, videos, education, work plus a couple of others like “backups” and “random”.
I put an z at the front so it would always be at the bottom of my list. To do this, I had to create a new folder structure inside Google Drive.įirst, I created a folder called “z. I also wanted to be able to add files to those folders and get them off my Air without deleting them (an activity previously done with my external drives) since it has limited space. I had folders that were “consolidated” folders such as education and videos for which I wanted to access some of the data but not all of it. Selective sync allows you to choose which folders to sync or not in your Google Drive settings.īut simply unsyncing some folders didn’t prove to be effective. Selective Syncing Salvationįirst thing I needed to do was activate selective sync on my MacBook Air (and later my PC). This set up was not an issue with a 100GB Dropbox account, as I could fit all the data on all my devices, but with the extra data I was loading into Google Drive something had to change. My data was everywhere… I had different data on two different computers, three external drives and none of my drives were 1TB! So I couldn’t use my whole 1TB, in fact using just even a fraction of it would fill up the tiny 120GB SSD on my Macbook Air. While getting 1TB of space on Google Drive was awesome, I still had an issue. But the change had a few unexpected benefits, one of which was allowing me to get rid of my external drives. In this post, I’ll explain how I got rid of them and how you can too.Ī while back I switched from Dropbox to Google Drive since they are now offering 1TB of data for just $10 a month. I used to have three external hard drives, now I have none. They take up space, USB ports and are far from a secure place to keep your precious photos and videos.
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