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Drive is very closely linked with Docs, Sheets, Slides. These aren't "files" in the traditional sense. These, plus things like PDFs, videos, etc are what Drive is designed to help manage.

If you have 100,000 source code files, art assets or something like that, you probably don't want to use Drive to manage them. The UI just isn't built for it and it doesn't scale.




I'm pretty sure Google Drive Desktop software by Google doesn't restrict the syncing to these basic for formats.

I certainly joined GDrive believing it is designed as a cloud drive where I put whatever I'd like.


The browser interface doesn't scale. But the mount as filesystem absolutely scales enough to accumulate 5 million files.




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