Google Drive Oops

I can't remember what I was doing online, but somehow saw a download Google Drive to your computer option. That's cool, I thought. I'll do that.

The download and install went fine, but then Google Drive decided it was going to back up my entire computer. Something I didn't realize until I got the "you've used up all your free space" message.

I didn't want Google to backup anything. I already have two programs that are backing up to the cloud and a third is overkill. If I had been presented with any kind of option after it installed, I would have said, NO! DO NOT BACKUP MY LAPTOP!

Looking on Google Drive on my laptop only showed two files that I'd created. Nothing else. Where were all my files that were clogging up things?

I started to Google online, looking for help. It was ridiculously difficult to find. I tried so many different search terms, it was crazy.

At one point, I believed I had the problem solved and started deleting files off of Google Drive only to discover that it was SYNCING with my laptop and deleting the file off my hard drive, too. WTF, Google?!?

Finally, FINALLY, I found instructions on how to break the connection between my laptop and the Google Drive. They should never have been this hard to find, BTW. Once I did this, my laptop stopped overheating and the fan stopped blowing at 100 mph. Two problems solved.

Problem three is still looming, though. Somehow, I have to get the files I deleted on Google Drive back onto my laptop.

I have the files in the trash on Google Drive and I have two online backups, so I'm confident I can restore everything, it's just going to take some time and probably be a major pain. Grrr.

Suggested For You

Google has this feature in its News section called Suggested for You. I guess they get it from things you searched for on regular Google. I can't think how else they do it.

Today's section of suggestions included an article about Geico. I was all like WTF? I've never searched for Geico, but then I remembered that yes, I did. When I was blogging about the commercial with the spy and his mom calling him, I did Google them.

There are some really odd suggestions at times, but then I do searches for a lot of off beat things. What I don't think the good folks at Google realize is that just because a person does one search on a topic, that doesn't necessarily mean they have any interest in ever seeing anything about it again. Put me squarely in that category. I mean really, just because I Googled about a television commercial that I liked, doesn't mean I have any interest in the company itself.

I get a lot of suggestions on things I looked at once and have zero interest in after that. Sometimes the suggestion seems to have no relationship to anything I ever searched for, but I'm assuming that's because I searched so long ago that I've forgotten about it. Either that or Google has decided to just throw random stuff at me and see if I care.

I usually click the not interested option.