msi file is for installation on Windows machines only but you can download it using any operating system.
Now you can ensure it’s working by going to a File Explorer window. exe file is for installation on Windows ® machines only but you can download it using any operating system. Lots of different devices supported, that’s a good thing! Click on the Download button immediately under the words “Get Drive for your PC or Mac”, then agree to the terms of service:Ī click on the big blue “Accept and Install” and it’ll download the program and once you authorize it to be installed - I love Windows 7 - the program overwrites the previous version of the software and fixes everything up: That’s right, click on “Download”, and you’ll be just about ready to proceed: Once you’re logged in close examination of the top navigational bar reveals the link needed to get the latest version of the Google Drive software:
A click and you’ll need to log in to Google Drive to proceed: It’s interesting that “gdrive” gets spell corrected to “g drive”, but it’s okay, because the first link is what we want. Yeah, you’ve already seen it, right? This is exactly where you’d expect some sort of update link, but it’s not there. Logged in from a computer at an Internet café in Bangladesh? You can get to all your Google Drive documents there too. Google Drive (aka “gdrive”) is a simple interface that lets you store and retrieve files on Google’s Internet-based storage network, making it a great way to have photos, docs, etc, instantly available on any device, be it a Mac, PC or mobile device. Then again, Google’s also demonstrated time and again that it expects a certain level of sophistication on the part of its users, and I surmise this is yet another example of that.įortunately you have my site to help out, right? 🙂 For a company that pays so much attention to the user experience, it’s quite surprising that there’s no auto-update feature, not even a link to download the updated software from the Google servers.
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