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Drew University uses Google’s G Suite (soon to be renamed Google Workspace), therefore, employees and students have the option of using either Drive File Stream or Backup and Sync – or both. If you have been using the older Google Drive for PC/Mac utility to synchronize files between Google Drive and your workstation, but a significant number of those files aren’t needed on your workstation and are taking up a lot of space, you may find that Drive File Stream is a good choice as you can select individual files to synchronize. Additionally, if you use Google Team Shared Drives or anticipate using them in the future, then Drive File Stream would also be a good choice as it supports synchronizing files from Team Shared Drives to PCs and Macs, which Backup and Sync does not.
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You also have the ability to utilize both Drive File Stream and Backup and Sync. If you feel that this combination of features best suits your needs, make certain that you exercise care in configuring synchronization settings to avoid the two utilities working at cross purposes. See warnings related to this issue under the instructions for installing Backup and Sync.
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Drive File Stream
Drive File Stream is intended for use by Google Workspace/G Suite users. You will be able to access both your files in My Drive and in any Team Drives that you have access to.
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Backup and Sync is intended for use by general consumers, but also can be used by Google Workspace/G Suite users. You only have access locally on your PC/Mac to your My Drive – you don't have local access to any Team Shared Drives – and it keeps all of your synced data on your computer.
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