Edited: In which two nice DUers respond to my Q about Google Docs, Drive, & upcoming changes.

[mahina]

Last edited Fri Sep 15, 2017, 05:14 AM - Edit history (2)

Updated: thanks folks. My Google fu must really stink. I must not have been looking in the right places for the answer to this question. I saw it in a news feed a few days ago but now, it's gone.

If so, could any of you suggest replacements?

Thank you so very much!

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. Here's a news article about Google drive changes

http://gizmodo.com/what-s-really-going-on-with-google-drive-1802703535

[mahina]

3. Thank you. That's more useful than the limited results I found.

Aloha.

[Princess Turandot]

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

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.

[mahina]

4. Thank you.

I'll check the article out. Mahalo for responding.

[mahina]

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

Top and the other half accesses it with mobile devices?

Ay yay yay.

[Dr Hobbitstein]

6. Doesn't matter what platform you're accessing it from

It all works the same.