(Tomsguide.com)
Google Drive is one of many Google services, that’s receiving upgrades, and this lot promises to make it a lot easier to search for files, folders and more within the cloud-based storage service.
Dubbed “search chips,” Google Drive for users of the Workspace services will now have the option to search for documents and files based on the files’ location, type, the people with whom they’ve been shared when the files were last modified, and more. These options come in the form of an additional suite of small drop-down menus nested below the scratch bar in Google Drive.
This might sound like a trivially simple upgrade, but as a user of Drive for work, I can’t begin to tell you how frustrating it’s been to try and track down various documents in my own segment of Workspace-grade Drive, let alone try and find various files shared across the Tom’s Guide team and our publisher Future.
Google Drive is one of many Google services, that’s receiving upgrades, and this lot promises to make it a lot easier to search for files, folders and more within the cloud-based storage service.
Dubbed “search chips,” Google Drive for users of the Workspace services will now have the option to search for documents and files based on the files’ location, type, the people with whom they’ve been shared when the files were last modified, and more. These options come in the form of an additional suite of small drop-down menus nested below the scratch bar in Google Drive.
This might sound like a trivially simple upgrade, but as a user of Drive for work, I can’t begin to tell you how frustrating it’s been to try and track down various documents in my own segment of Workspace-grade Drive, let alone try and find various files shared across the Tom’s Guide team and our publisher Future.
Google itself recognises that searching for a few keywords the user believes might be relevant to a desired file or document can be too broad and leads to inefficient searching and inaccurate results.
It’s hoped that by offering an extra degree of filtering, finding files will become a lot easier. I for one welcome this change with open arms.
Other Drive improvements have also been added, such as serving up spelling suggestions along with search chips, allowing search chips to work on their own or together, and offering additional date options to the “last modified” chip.
Rollout of this upgrade has already started, though it could take some 15 days from Feb. 15 for the search chips to be added to your version of Drive on the Google Workspace.
As this improvement has been designed for enterprise users, don’t expect to see it on the personal version of Google Drive just yet. I’m hoping Google extends the update to all users of Drive before too long.
Alongside a redesign of Gmail, it’s good to see Google is looking at refining some of its widely used tools, as good as they are. Tweaks that streamline things and make life easier for users are definitely appreciated.
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Unlimited storage in Google Drive?
- Expand storage space on your Google Drive with Shared Drive (Team drive):
- Unlimited cloud storage
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WHAT’S SPECIAL IN GOOGLE SHARED DRIVE?
Unlimited Storage with lifetime license
This is expanded drive in your Google Drive with unlimited & lifetime storage (in case you do not violate Google policy)
Maximum items in a shared drive
A shared drive can contain a maximum of 400,000 items, including files, folders, and shortcuts.
We recommend that you keep shared drives well below the strict limit. Users of shared drives with too many files might have difficulty organizing and finding items or ignore much of the content.
Maximum daily uploads
Individual users can only upload 750 GB each day between My Drive and all shared drives. Users who reach the 750-GB limit or upload a file larger than 750 GB cannot upload additional files that day. Uploads that are in progress will complete. The maximum individual file size that you can upload or synchronize is 5 TB.
File sharing limits
A given file within a shared drive can be directly shared with a maximum of 100 groups.
Folder limits
A folder in a shared drive can support up to 20 levels of nested folders.
