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Princess Turandot

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2. I believe they are replacing Google *Drive* with other options, not Docs...

Fri Sep 15, 2017, 05:09 AM

Sep 2017

Drive is used to sync files across users' computers and the cloud. You don't need it to access your Docs online documents in a web browser.

Here's one article about it. (They're supposedly turning Drive off in March 2018.)

https://www.ghacks.net/2017/09/07/google-retires-google-drive-software/

I use Google Drive to sync certain files - saved images, text documents, saved articles etc. - between my desktop and a laptop/chromebook.

Google's chrome operating system that runs Chromebooks needs a cloud based office suite such as Docs to be useful to their business clients, so I don't think they'll be abandoning it w/o a direct replacement anytime soon.

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Edited: In which two nice DUers respond to my Q about Google Docs, Drive, & upcoming changes. [View all] mahina Sep 2017 OP

Here's a news article about Google drive changes GreenPartyVoter Sep 2017 #1

Thank you. That's more useful than the limited results I found. mahina Sep 2017 #3

I believe they are replacing Google *Drive* with other options, not Docs... Princess Turandot Sep 2017 #2

Thank you. mahina Sep 2017 #4

If docs works fine from a computer but needs the ap from a phone, what if half the team's on a desk- mahina Sep 2017 #5

Doesn't matter what platform you're accessing it from Dr Hobbitstein Sep 2017 #6