google drive desktop not syncing with google drive online

Outlook integration: Google Drive for desktop will integrate with Microsoft Outlook for those using it, and allows you to insert and save Google Drive files straight from your Outlook interface.

These files are synced back to the cloud when you are online.

Offline access: You can make selected files or folders “Available offline” in My Drive or Shared Drives if you use these.

When you access Google Drive on your computer, it appears as a network drive (G: drive) but if you save your files to G: instead of your local hard drive C:, your files will be backed up to Google Drive and will not be impacted if you lost your computer, or there was damage to your hard drive.Other beneficial features of Google Drive for desktop include:

Google Drive for desktop is the recommended tool, as it syncs your files from Google Drive to your computer, on-demand when opened, which saves disk space on your computer and your network bandwidth.

Some people who don’t regularly use Google Drive, can still benefit from backing up their locally saved files (files saved to your own hard drive), to Google Drive using the sync client application called Google Drive for desktop. What this means is, if you ever lost your computer, or the hard drive became damaged, you could access any file you have stored on Google Drive from any other device. If you already use Google Drive on the web to store your files, you do not have to do anything further since Google already backs up your Drive files “in the cloud”.

Google drive desktop not syncing with google drive online