Am I missing the point of Insync?

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Hey all. I snagged Insync few days ago and just got around to installing it (linux). It seems like a great program and is obviously very well made, but … it isn’t what I expected. I’ve seen it recommended many times as an alternative to Google Drive on Linux and assumed it worked similarly.

Perhaps the name inSYNC should have tipped me off, but I thought this program was meant to function like Google Drive’s desktop software, in that it maps a virtual folder to your Drive account and behaves like a normal local folder… but the files are not actually on your hard drive.

I just started syncing up some stuff and saw it’s actually doing a gigabyte-for-gigabyte 1:1 sync of everything on my Drive storage. Is that all Insync does or am I missing a setting somewhere? Is it possible to get it to behave like Drive?

No complaints about the software… if I misunderstood the purpose of it that’s my own fault. Just curious

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For me there’s no alternative to insync. Insync can convert Google Drive specific files, like gdocs, to Microsoft Office or Open Document files so I can work in LibreOffice or Microsoft Office on my PC but always access, and edit, them through Google Drive.

And it does double duty as a backup medium!

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Hi @Beer here is a list of features that might help you differentiate us from the Google Drive client:

  • Multiple accounts
  • Convert Google Docs to Office
  • Convert to OpenDocument
  • Symlink, junction and alias
  • External & network drives
  • Non-admin Windows install
  • Desktop notifications
  • On-demand shared files syncing
  • Linux
  • Raspberry Pi
  • Name your own folder
  • Revert read-only files
  • Feed of file changes
  • MSI install
  • Desktop interface
  • Command line
  • Preserve directory structure
  • Ignore List
  • Responsive support

If you have any further questions, you can reach us at support@insynchq.com :slight_smile: