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Or if you had a network outage and wanted to access your files.

I use Mail.app to sync my gmail locally, but it'd be nice if Drive actually synced my Google Docs locally. Currently Drive just places a small json shim file on the disk, rather than syncing a usable document.

Data Liberation does export your docs in a usable format, but it's a rather awkward, manual process.

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If you want your actual Google Docs files synced locally, I recommend SocialFolders. It runs in the system tray as an unobtrusive service. It also syncs Twitter images and some other services. The free version has worked for me as I don't have many thousands of files in Docs.

https://socialfolders.me/r/k1pb5 (referral link; gives both you and me a higher file limit.)

https://socialfolders.me (no referral link; normal file limit.)

Currently Drive just places a small json shim file on the disk, rather than syncing a usable document.

If you use Chrome its easy to get Drive to store docs locally (but not images pdfs etc) [1]

[1] http://support.google.com/drive/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answ...

Chrome will only store a few items locally, and often you still need a network connection.

If you use Syncdocs [1], it syncs all docs locally as Word or Open Office files. It also syncs other files and Google calendars.

[1] http://syncdocs.com

I use insync[1], it also converts all documents, but why I use it mostly is it's linux support.

An advantage to Syncdocs is it's one time payment, instead of a subscription fee.

[1]https://www.insynchq.com/

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