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Monday, September 17, 2012
Several months ago, we
launched Google Drive
: one place to create, collaborate, share and keep all your stuff. If you’ve used Docs in the past, Google Drive is the new home for all your files and folders including your Google documents, spreadsheets, and presentations.
This means all your files that were previously stored in Google Docs will now be available in Google Drive. If you haven’t already started using Google Drive, you’ll see a message to try it out the next time you visit docs.google.com.
With Google Drive, you’ll get access to new features.
Access everywhere, every device.
Drive comes with
desktop and mobile apps
, making it much easier to upload, sync and access your stuff from any device. Get Drive for
Android
and
iOS
and you can create and edit documents, open and share files, and upload photos and videos.
Find your stuff faster.
Look for files by keyword and Drive searches everything — even text within scanned documents or images without any text at all. Drive also comes with a simplified navigation to help you better organize your files, and there's a new grid view to help you see thumbnails at a glance.
Work with more apps in Drive.
Google Drive is integrated with a growing number of
third-party apps
, so you can do things like send faxes, edit videos and create website mockups all in one place.
Just in case you’re not quite ready for change, you can click the “Temporarily use the old look” button on the pop-up message, but eventually all Docs users will be switched to Drive.
You may also have noticed a few other changes in the Docs world. First, you’re reading this post on the brand new googledrive.blogspot.com. But don’t worry--if you were subscribed to googledocs.blogspot.com, you’ll still automatically get all of our updates in your feed.
Our social sites have also made the switch to Drive, so if you aren’t already, follow us on
plus.google.com/+GoogleDrive
and
twitter.com/googledrive
to stay up on the latest news and updates from our team.
Visit the help center to
learn more
.
Posted by Scott Johnston, Group Product Manager
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