google drive for mac pc is going away soon

#GOOGLE DRIVE FOR MAC PC IS GOING AWAY SOON SOFTWARE#
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If you don't get the above prompt, or if you choose 'NO, USE BOTH', you can always later click on the old Drive icon, click its little 3-dot menu button, and choose 'Quit Google Drive' to disconnect it:.Click 'YES' to disconnect your old Drive: You may get a prompt to 'Use Drive File Stream to sync My Drive', asking you to either keep both the old Drive and the new File Stream or to disconnect the old in favour of the new.You should now see up in your Mac's top menu bar both your new File Stream icon and your old Drive icon, the new one still in the sync'ing process:.At the 'Installation Successful' confirmation, click 'Close':.After that, you can now click 'OK' back at the 'System Extension Blocked' warning window:.

#GOOGLE DRIVE FOR MAC PC IS GOING AWAY SOON SOFTWARE#

macOS 10.13 'High Sierra') - and all Curling Canada staff should be - you will then most likely be prompted with a 'System Extension Blocked' warning, prompting you go into your System Preferences and allow 'Google Inc.' software to be installed. If you are using the latest Mac operating system (i.e.

#GOOGLE DRIVE FOR MAC PC IS GOING AWAY SOON PASSWORD#

This will be your e-mail address and its password you typically use to access your Gmail, etc.

You will then be prompted to login with your Google account.

This will be the same User Name and Password you typically use to log into your Macbook itself.

You will be prompted by your Mac to authenticate to allow the installation to continue.

Keep the default Destination and click 'Install':.

Click 'Continue' at the warning, and click 'Continue' again at the installer Introduction to proceed:.

dmg and double-click again to launch the. Once finished downloading, double-click to extract the.

Most Curling Canada staff are Macbook users, so will want to download the Mac installer ( 'googledrivefilestream.dmg'), accordingly.

If not, you can manually initiate the process by going to Google Drive Help > 'Use work or school files on your computer with Drive File Stream' and following the download/install directions there. If so, you can click 'Install Drive File Stream' and follow the prompts. Some of you may have already encountered transition prompts like this: While there is an alternate new version of Drive for Mac/PC, called Backup and Sync, Curling Canada will be using Google Drive File Stream, as it makes more efficient use of space and supports Team Drives as well as individual Drives. It will no longer be supported by Google starting on December 11th, 2017, and it will shut down completely on May 12th, 2018. With the introduction of Google Drive File Stream, the old 'Google Drive for Windows/Mac' client will be deprecated.

Google drive for mac pc is going away soon