Solved: Why forcing us to use google drive / cloud - Page 2

CK · 01-02-2022 07:30 AM

why you are forcing us to use google cloud for our own docs, I don't want to upload my files to the cloud, and I have thousands of old files that I rarely use them and I don't want to send all of them to google drive

1- there is no google docs extension so you can't download the files to ur computer, you have to download them as xlsx then when you need to work on them again you have to upload them to the drive to be able to convert them to google sheet and use all edit options.
2- there is no google app for windows to open google docs directly and editing them without the need of google drive/cloud
3- you can't fully edit office files without saving them to google drive, you are given minor edit options that are useless and you are forced to save the file in the drive to convert it to google sheet to open all edit options !!!

are all of these annoying issues to force us to use cloud and pay for cloud storage or just to make all our data available to google

so we are forced to keep using office and google both together and we can't fully migrate to google apps.

KAM

@StephenHind and @CK I don't understand this debate.

Google is a cloud company. You don't seem to gel with the way Google works and that's usually an exercise in pain to use Google if you don't agree with their methods and directions. If you want Google to add a feature, you are going to need to state a business use case that states what your problem is and what your desired outcome is. There is a feature request section you can apply for access but frankly, Google is unlikely to make an desktop software beyond the offline extension.

However, Google editors like docs/sheets/slides are files and you can actually store them on Dropbox (sorry Stephen). Perhaps this helps with your needs, CK. https://help.dropbox.com/installs-integrations/third-party/create-google-docs

Regards,
KAM

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