And when you download the picture to your computer, the creation date is not restored, it still shows the upload date as the creation date.

It replaces the original creation date with the upload date. Only after I had uploaded my 250+ GB of files did I learn that Google Drive removes the creation date from all photos and videos. A deal breaker really, and I won’t be using Google Drive to backup my photos and videos until this is fixed. This will start where you left off if the download was in process. If you hover over the “!” button after you click ‘Cancel’, you’ll be given the option to retry the download. I later learned that this button essentially provides a way to pause an upload on Google Drive.

Whether to temporarily open up bandwidth for another process, or when I was closing my computer to take it somewhere else (I wasn’t sure what would happen if I closed my computer in the middle of a big upload). Many times during the upload process, I wanted to pause the upload. I needed to monitor the uploads occasionally throughout the process. I wish I could just initiate the transfer of all my files at once, but this wasn’t possible. I left my computer running through the night for multiple nights to get this done.Īdditionally, uploading large batches often caused the upload to freeze so I recommend uploading in smaller batches. And just a heads up, uploading the 250 GB took days. So if you have a good internet connection at home, you might as well stay home to upload the files.

Uploads were slow, and after some research I learned that the upload speeds are capped on the Google Drive side. The city of Provo has fiber internet through Google Fiber, so I drove to the office of a friend of mine to upload the files there. Since I planned to upload a large amount of files, I thought it would be best to use a really fast internet connection. Here are a few things I’ve learned during the upload process and in accessing those files: Upload speed capped server side. I paid for the 1 TB storage option and uploaded over 250 GB of files. I like the interface and like having things all in one place.

Recently, I decided to use Google Drive as a secondary backup for my files.

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