Google added Offline sync to Google Drive in Chrome

Google Drive users will no longer have to worry that they cannot access their documents without the Internet, as long as they use Google's Chrome browser.

That's because recently, Google has added offline sync support for Google Drive in its browser. With this feature, you can completely access, edit any word documents, their spreadsheets and slides on Google Drive without an Internet connection. However, to use this feature, you must activate it in your Google Drive. At the same time, this feature has just started to be deployed so if you cannot use it now, you should wait patiently for a short time.

- To activate, in Google Drive , click the More button on the left side of the screen.
- Select Offline Docs.
- Click the "Get the app" button in green
- You will be taken to Chrome web store , then continue to click the Click Add to Chrome button in the upper right corner of the browser window.
- After the application is installed, you will be returned to a Chrome page with the Google Drive application icon. To return to the service, click the Drive icon that appears.
- To the right of the dialog box on the Offline Docs page, click on the blue "Enable offline" color button to activate.
- If you do not want to use this new feature, click on the icon at the top of the browser window, select 'Stop using Docs offline'.

Users should be aware that if you are editing an offline document on a computer, while another person is editing the document in the online version, Google Drive will combine data from both versions into the file. After your device has an internet connection again (on both machines). You will not lose the data you just added, but this combination seems to confuse you with your documents. Google should provide more features to alert users that their documents are being edited in both modes.

Google also noted that users should not use new features on public computers, or that computers shared with multiple users by strangers may be able to access their data. It is not clear whether Google will bring this feature to other browsers.