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Cloud-storage - safe & secure? Consider Wuala (it's encrypted as well).
IainB:
I became concerned about Google Drive security when they switched from an LLC (logical labelling concept) to an FC (Folder Concept). I had individual and separate files which were each labelled in several separate categories, and when Google switched to FC, they turned all the labels into folders, put the single file into a single folder (apparently at random), with links in all the other folders (which had been labels before) pointing back to the single file. Each link had a.doc suffix but was only about 280Kb in size. It was very confusing and made a lot of unnecessary and tedious work for me to clear up.
Such churlish disregard for their customers, confusingly populating their drives with virtually empty folders like that, and burying the actual document in the matrix.
So it was with mixed feelings that I read this post (below) on the Google Drive blog.
One thing it has going for it though is that Google seem to be making genuine improvements (albeit very belatedly), and they don't use the E-word ("excited") anywhere that I could see, so it may be genuine rather than yet another marketing puff. :o
(Copied below sans embedded hyperlinks/images.)
Because it's gotta be super easy to find your files
Wednesday, December 9, 2015
When you store important files in Google Drive they’re not only safe, they’re accessible from any device. And finding them again from any device should be super easy so we’re rolling out a new search experience to get you better results — even faster. Drive lets you search across all your files, regardless of the device they came from. To make that easier, you can use these new ways to find your files:
Narrow your search to a file type from the search box on Android, iOS, and the web.
Open advanced search instantly from the search box.
Access recent files or search Drive from the home screen using 3D Touch on iOS.
Search Drive using the iOS search bar without opening the Drive app.
Several behind-the-scenes improvements give your search queries even better results than they did before. And to get more specific results, anyone can now do the following:
Search for shared files by file owner using their name or email address.
Use advanced search options like the date a file was modified, words it contains, or who it was shared with.
This is all part of an ongoing effort to make Drive the easiest place to find your files. Look for these features as they roll out in the coming weeks. Posted by Steen Andersson, Group Product Manager, Google Drive
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