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Drive File Stream by Google VS Air Explorer

Compare Drive File Stream by Google VS Air Explorer and see what are their differences

Drive File Stream by Google logo Drive File Stream by Google

Deploy Drive File Stream to your organization for a quick and easy way to access your Drive files from your computer. This article is for administrators. To learn how to use Drive File Stream, see th

Air Explorer logo Air Explorer

Air Explorer is a software to manage all your multiple cloud drives (like Dropbox, Onedrive, Google Drive, Mega, Mediafire, Box, Hidrive, Yandex, Baidu,...) as well as WebDav and FTP connections.
  • Drive File Stream by Google Landing page
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    2023-03-11
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    2023-09-12

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Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to Drive File Stream by Google and Air Explorer)
Cloud Storage
28 28%
72% 72
Web Service Automation
19 19%
81% 81
File Sharing
100 100%
0% 0
Project Management
0 0%
100% 100

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, Drive File Stream by Google seems to be more popular. It has been mentiond 3 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

Drive File Stream by Google mentions (3)

  • Uber Investigating Breach of Its Computer Systems
    >scan their intranet and find a network share Assuming screenshot is real[0], they have over 1PB in their Google Drive, so chances are everyone just uses Google Drive with shared drives, and employees use Drive for Desktop (previously drive file stream)[1]. Shared drives are pretty powerful and access to them can be gated at the same level as you can regular Drive files. My theory is that some high-level IT person... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago
  • Windows Search showing wrong icons.
    I'm referring to Google Drive for desktop/Windows, aka Google Drive File Stream, that's installed by users or corps (https://support.google.com/a/answer/7491144.) To be specific, the rather well-known workaround for a frankly worse search icon issue that seems to be caused by how Google chose to make the icon overlays (https://github.com/phuze/windows-10-missing-search-icons) has exactly this effect, because it... Source: about 3 years ago
  • How to deploy GDrive?
    Yes. https://support.google.com/a/answer/7491144#zippy=. Source: about 3 years ago

Air Explorer mentions (0)

We have not tracked any mentions of Air Explorer yet. Tracking of Air Explorer recommendations started around Mar 2021.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Drive File Stream by Google and Air Explorer, you can also consider the following products

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ifttt - IFTTT puts the internet to work for you. Create simple connections between the products you use every day.

Filen - Next Generation end-to-end encrypted cloud storage. Get started with 10 GB of free space.

FileCloud - FileCloud is an enterprise file share, sync and mobile access solution.