Add Google Drive as a Cloud Backup Option

Support for Google Drive storage via cloud backup.

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Anonymous shared this idea · Sep 2, 2014 · Report… · Admin →

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AdminAndrew Hughes (Founder, Steadfast Innovation, LLC) responded · Oct 23, 2023

Support for Google Drive is now available for everyone on Google Play, along with a major update to cloud backup! Backups are now created at the note level, meaning only the notes that were created or edited since the last backup will be uploaded to Drive. As a result, backups are now MUCH faster and can easily resume after being interrupted.

This has been a long time coming, so thanks for your patience. Please try it out and let us know if you have any feedback!

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AdminAndrew Hughes (Founder, Steadfast Innovation, LLC) responded · Oct 11, 2023

Support for Google Drive is now in Beta on Google Play, along with a major update to cloud backup ( https://papyrus.uservoice.com/forums/177239/suggestions/5629047 ) ! Backups are now created at the note level, meaning only the notes that were created or edited since the last backup will be uploaded to Drive. As a result, backups are now MUCH faster and can easily resume after being interrupted.

This has been a long time coming, so thanks for your patience. Please try it out and let us know if you have any feedback!

If you need help joining the Google Play Beta, follow these instructions ( https://help.squidnotes.com/article/679-how-can-i-join-the-beta-testing-program ).

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AdminAndrew Hughes (Founder, Steadfast Innovation, LLC) responded · Aug 7, 2023

Support for Google Drive is coming! Along with it is a major update to the automatic backup support in Squid. Backups will be created at the note level, meaning only the notes that are edited since the last backup will be uploaded to the cloud. This will make backups MUCH faster and more reliable.

We’ve been piloting backup to Drive with schools over the last several months. We still have a few more things to do before we roll it out to Beta. This has been a long time coming, so thanks for your patience, and we’re really excited to get your feedback!

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AdminAndrew Hughes (Founder, Steadfast Innovation, LLC) responded · Nov 27, 2017

We currently support creating and restoring backups to/from Google Drive via the local backup settings: http://feedback.squidnotes.com/knowledgebase/articles/1185616

I understand that this does not meet everyone’s needs. Adding support for Google Drive to the automatic backup options is something we continue to investigate.

I recently wrote an open letter to Cloud Storage providers on this subject: https://medium.com/steadfast-innovation/open-letter-to-cloud-storage-apps-on-android-a2d0eb919fc4

Please encourage your favorite cloud storage provider (i.e. Google Drive) to fully support the Android Storage Access Framework (as stated in the above letter). This will not only help us to better support backup and restore to ANY cloud app, but will help the ecosystem as a whole.

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Anonymous commented · September 20, 2016 9:30 PM · Report

Excel

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David “Bully” Bulczak commented · July 21, 2016 6:17 AM · Report

This request exists since 2012 and still no Google Drive option? Well, that is a counterexample of good support.

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Anonymous commented · May 30, 2016 9:01 AM · Report

Please add Google Drive cloud support.

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Pete commented · May 29, 2016 6:09 AM · Report

TRY using "Ahsay software" i am using it from long time and quite impressed with its working. so if you want to know more about the "Ahsay software" it actually gives backup and restoring too

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Anonymous commented · May 22, 2016 2:08 AM · Report

WE WILL PAY FOR GOOGLE DRIVE SYNC!!! DON'T YOU GET THAT!!

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Yaron Lavi commented · April 1, 2016 6:00 AM · Report

I am using Squid ever since i started my academic studies and its a treat!
Thank you all for your hard work in making this Awesome App.
I'd love to see the option to Sync my work with Google Drive, at the moment i'm exporting manually each note to Drive which is somewhat frustrating.
Thanks again!

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Anonymous commented · February 29, 2016 7:29 PM · Report

Good Day to All at Squid,

Please make this simple but essential feature part of the package, premium if you want but stop taking your time... We need this link to Google Drive or we are going back to Google Note...

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Anonymous commented · February 9, 2016 3:10 AM · Report

I will undoubtably buy your app with Google Drive as a cloud option.

There is no reason whatsoever why it shouldn't be there unless it's some sort of conspiracy against Google or they did something to harm you or your company.
The other option would be...you actually don't like making money.

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Saleem Hasan commented · December 20, 2015 2:14 PM · Report

Due to office 365. subscription millions of onedrive users. There is no need to keep dropbox while onedrive account

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Anonymous commented · November 25, 2015 9:08 AM · Report

Please oh please add this feature. Syncing with Drive would be a lifesaver for me. My entire job revolves around google applications and I use your app for many things in my job. However, not having a sync option is a massive pain as I liiterally need hundreds of squid documents. It's getting to the point where I will need to look for alternatives to Squid

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Steve Dransfield commented · November 23, 2015 1:49 AM · Report

I use Drive for my business and need to be able to save and access notes from various devices, please add this option!

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Anonymous commented · November 22, 2015 5:25 PM · Report

Drive is essential to the android and chrome OS ecosystem. It's like selling a pc without support for office.

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Luis Villamarin commented · October 23, 2015 7:56 AM · Report

I want to pay for premium for 47 users in my company, but my business happily uses Google drive as cloud solution. Box is not as big and used as Drive. We need a Drive solution, Drive is the only thing missing for this app to achieve perfection. Many people have voted, please work on it.

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ChrisO commented · October 13, 2015 8:38 AM · Report

Add Drive support and I'll buy it. Why create an Android app that doesn't support Drive?

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Soumen Banerjee commented · September 16, 2015 9:11 AM · Report

I dont know why you guys care! Dropbox is also free right? And I cant think of anyone needing gigabites of space for notes! Isnt any cloud backup the same thing?

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Rodrigo gacitua commented · August 31, 2015 10:18 AM · Report

drive used to be supportedon papyrus

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Anonymous commented · August 16, 2015 3:15 AM · Report

Thanks

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Robert McKay commented · August 11, 2015 10:34 AM · Report

I'll buy cloud service as soon as you add Drive. Multiple accounts would be even better. Thanks!

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vinny commented · July 2, 2015 8:24 AM · Report

My entire business is on google drive. I need to save these files to the google drive as well and import them back from google drive. please please please sync up with google drive

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Ausamah Hobbi commented · June 13, 2015 4:16 PM · Report

Hey! I I was about to purchase the cloud service but realized that Google Drive is not supported... please fix this! I won't be getting the cloud service until then.. Thanks!

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