And there are two useful syncing options for you to let Google Workspace Shared Drive sync to desktop automatically. And the most important thing is that Google Drive for desktop allows you to easily use Shared Drives (Team Drives) on your PC by adding the corresponding Google Workspace or Google Workspace for Education account to the app.Īfter adding an account, you can access Google Shared Drive directly from the file explorer of your computer. Featuresįrom the comparison, you may find that among these three Google Drive apps, only Google Drive for desktop supports most of the functions. Here we sum up the differences between these three applications in detail. But Google has mixed the main functions of these former applications into Google Drive for desktop, making Google Drive for desktop the most powerful desktop application nowadays. (5).Google Drive for desktop application shares similar functions to its former products like Backup and Sync and Google Drive File Stream. If the connection between BestSync and Google Drive server can not be established successfully, please check the log. The log window (below the treeview) logs all the commands sent to the Google Drive server, and responses from the Google Drive server. After login Google Drive, press 'Go' button to connect to the Google Drive, BestSync lists folders in the Google Drive to the tree view. 'http Proxy' dialog box will be popped up for setup up the If this option is checked at the first time, the

If the local computer is behind a firewall or NAT, usually theĬomputer needs the proxy to connect to the Google Drive server. If you have not got an account, you can click 'Sign in Google Drive, 5GB online storage for free' link to apply a Google Account.īestSync opens the web browser for you to login Google Drive, please input the Google account (an email address) and password to allow BestSync to access your Google Drive.

Select 'Google Drive' in the 'File Systems' list.

Google drive sync log