{"id":120522,"date":"2017-09-08T12:29:11","date_gmt":"2017-09-08T10:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=120522"},"modified":"2017-09-08T12:30:02","modified_gmt":"2017-09-08T10:30:02","slug":"google-is-killing-its-drive-desktop-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/120522-google-is-killing-its-drive-desktop-app","title":{"rendered":"Google is killing its Drive desktop app"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google said in a\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/gsuiteupdates.googleblog.com\/2017\/09\/drive-file-stream-from-google.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">blog post<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0that it will end support for its Drive cloud storage app on Mac and PC from 11 December 2017.<\/p>\n<p>The service will be replaced by a unified cloud storage client called Backup and Sync, which includes all the features in Google Drive.<\/p>\n<p>Google Photos will also lose support on 11 December and its features will be integrated into Backup and Sync.<\/p>\n<p>Enterprise and G-Suite customers will gain access to Google\u2019s new Drive File Stream platform, which allows users to stream files on demand, sync individual files, and access files in Team Drives.<\/p>\n<p>The Google Drive service will shut down completely on 12 March 2018. Google will begin pushing notifications about the discontinuation to users from October.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/227931-google-unveils-inside-music.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Google unveils Inside Music<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google said in a\u00a0blog post\u00a0that it will end support for its Drive cloud storage app on Mac and PC from 11 December 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":97186,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[18455,1638,8325],"class_list":["post-120522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","tag-drive","tag-google","tag-storage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120522"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120524,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120522\/revisions\/120524"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}