The Drive File Stream app still provides access to cloud storage on your computer, but it takes into account that many businesses have large shared drives that are inconvenient to sync locally.

Google Drive is a handy place to store your data, and it comes with a regular Gmail account. You can get more out of it by tying it to Windows File Explorer.

The missing file issue affecting Google Drive users is caused by the desktop app, Google has confirmed, and the company is investigating.

Google confirms that months of files went missing from Drive -- here's how to restore them.

Google Drive users have a path to recover missing files from the service, but it isn't foolproof, requires local storage, and may need a trip to the command line interface.