Bulldoze up the wall: Google wants to clear up confusion around its Drive file sync and storage service. Although at that place's just one Google Drive app on mobile, on the desktop at that place's 'Drive File Stream' for Workspace/G Suite customers and 'Backup and Sync' for regular users. Following an update (version 45.0) to Bulldoze File Stream final week, Google renamed this service to 'Google Drive for desktop'. The visitor is now pushing to make it a unified client for all users by incorporating features from Backup and Drive, including the ability to upload media to Google Photos.

Google'south file sync offerings under its Drive service can get a bit complicated, especially if you're a regular customer who relies on Backup and Sync for personal use and then has to manage Bulldoze File Stream at work. Information technology could also get messy if an organization used both solutions at the same time.

Thankfully, the company is streamlining things with Drive for desktop, a recent relabelling of the enterprise-focused Drive File Stream, in an effort to reduce defoliation for all Google Drive users around which app to apply on desktop. Google notes that Information technology admins and business end users won't be impacted past this change and that it's launched a beta for the new unified client that volition combine the 'all-time and nigh used features' of Drive File Stream and Fill-in and Sync.

Later this year, Bulldoze for desktop volition allow backing up media to Google Photos, local binder sync, and multi-account access.
Click here for the full list of features that'll come to Bulldoze for desktop.

Google Drive for desktop will also be rolling out to regular users on PC later this twelvemonth as a replacement for Backup and Sync. Consequently, they'd need to manually transition to the new unified customer as Google retires its current consumer offering.

The visitor says it will give Information technology admins and finish users iii months' find before the deadline to transition to Drive for desktop. Information technology will share more details on consumer timelines closer to availability.