rishsharma

Amazing product. Congratulations to the team!

Try using the Google Backup and Sync to download your contents. Then use your Finder/Explorer right click -> Get info options. I admit not ideal.

Also this may be helpful: https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/quota

re:invent

Unless you are a TL. A lot of overlap with PM work but more eng execution focused.

Use gdax.com

Here are the steps for restore (although they can be terse)

1. Install Backup and Sync on new computer

2. Add an empty folder "Temp" to backup

3. Let the folder be backed up so that a Computers > My New Computer > TEMP is created on the cloud.

4. Go to cloud and move the top level folders in Computers > My Old Computer > Documents/Downloads/etc into Computers > My New Computer

5. Create empty folders with the same name on the new computer.

6. Add them each in the Preferences. In version 3.36+, the application will recognize that it exists in the cloud. It will then tell the user it will merge the folders.

7. Uncheck the TEMP folder you added

8. Click Apply

All your content will be downloaded.

You can turn it off completely in Preferences.

It utilizes similar pricing for photos and videos.

You can elect to upload Photos/Videos in High Quality (which does not consume quota).

If Google Photos is the primary ingestion engine for you, you could do this (a suggestion):

1. Go to Drive online. Go to Settings

2. Enable "Create a Google Photos folder"

3. Download the Backup and Sync client, and sync Google Photos to a place on your computer.

4. Periodically have rsync copy new files to your NAS via a scheduler.

It doesn't take anything away from the current Google Drive client. It adds more features such as adding more folders to sync, choosing whether the images in those folders get synced to Google Photos, adding USB media support, and deletion options.

It also has a lot of bug fixes over the older client.

You can elect not to sync deletions in the new application.

Look into Drive File Stream.