That being said, if you do have a high amount of files on your Drive that you don't want to store locally on your computer but still need to easily access them, File Stream could be worth the try. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to replicate this behavior with Drive File Stream, which means I'll have to stick to a single account or manually switch back and forth between them. For instance, you can sign into multiple Google Accounts with Backup and Sync, or can even use it together with File Stream with different credentials - I could, for example, log into my personal Gmail account and my Android Police account running the two apps in parallel on my Mac. I've used it for about a year and a half in my previous job to sync my Drive folders locally and had a dreadful experience: The software was often unresponsive, it wasn't easy to spot which files were locally downloaded on my computer - I have to manually check if there's a small green checkmark for each file or folder, and the app would take up an incredibly high amount of system resources on my Mac.Īnother issue I see is if you're using several Drives at once. Although File Stream sounds like a better offering, I personally hate the app.

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