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new install of Win XP Pro all updates.
downloaded the GoogleDrive installer, ran it and it says there are no updates and that was it. What is it talking about? My other old laptop has googledrive installed OK. What do I need to get googledrive working on this "new" laptop ? |
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On 05/11/2017 03:58, FreeMan wrote:
new install of Win XP Pro all updates. downloaded the GoogleDrive installer, ran it and it says there are no updates and that was it. What is it talking about? My other old laptop has googledrive installed OK. What do I need to get googledrive working on this "new" laptop ? You need to expose yourself!!!!!!!!! http://www.techadvisor.co.uk/how-to/software/how-use-google-drive-on-windows-xp-or-vista-3648827/ Have you thought of learning something about Google Search? It's a wonderful tool if you put your mind to it actively without resorting to these NGs for silly things like this. Good luck. -- With over 500 million devices now running Windows 10, customer satisfaction is higher than any previous version of windows. |
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FreeMan wrote:
new install of Win XP Pro all updates. downloaded the GoogleDrive installer, ran it and it says there are no updates and that was it. What is it talking about? My other old laptop has googledrive installed OK. What do I need to get googledrive working on this "new" laptop ? I reproduced that. You ran the installbackupandsync.exe 1,130,328 bytes installer, and that's the dialog it puts up. The "no updates" crap. One of the things I did, was use the same approach, only in a Win10 x32 virtual machine. Then, copy the Drive folder over to the WinXP SP3 x32 virtual machine, and try to run it there. To make a long story short, the result throws an error. The keywords in the error dialog, helped me find the picture shown in this thread. The Google EXE is actually a python loader, which unpacks into your %temp%, then does some sort of dynamic library thing (Python aids the loading of some DLL), and whatever DLL it's looking for, is not present on WinXP. But the error message doesn't say *what* it was trying to load, so I cannot say anything more about whether WinXP should have that or not. We know Google hates WinXP, so what happened isn't a surprise. https://productforums.google.com/for...ve/oFp6rg8uL28 And then Alex_F in the thread says "Windows XP is not supported". Well, duh. The advice is, to go back to a previous version. https://dl.google.com/drive/3.36.6884.5911/gsync.msi Virus scan ( https://www.virustotal.com/#/file/d6...90e056/details ) And, it works. I'm using a VM that I keep rolling back, so when I installed this in WinXP SP3, it had never seen a Google product. And it seems to work. Note that, the installer is *really* sneaky. It exits without saying a damn thing. I went into my C:\Program Files and yes, there's a Google folder with a Drive folder in it. I ran the executable in there ("googledrivesync.exe") and it actually loaded and got past that [Python] problem. https://s1.postimg.org/1hp75k2mtr/tu..._the_straw.gif ******* Some background reading material for you. https://www.theverge.com/2017/9/7/16...p-app-shutdown "The aging Google Drive app for desktop is officially deprecated as of [Sep 7, 2017] There's Backup and Sync, the all-encompassing consumer app that replaces both the standalone Google Drive and Google Photos Uploader apps. It offers essentially the same functionality as Drive and works much the same way. " But if you go here, it'll feel like a dead end. Well, it's GoOgle, what else would you expect. https://www.google.com/drive/download/backup-and-sync/ Can you see a "Supported OS" FAQ entry ? I can't. Paul |
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Got it , ran it and it is up and working.
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You are so helpful .... NOT !
So we should all abandon the forum and spend our lives Googling ? You must have lots of stock in Google. |
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El domingo, 5 de noviembre de 2017, 9:57:32 (UTC+1), Paul escribió:
FreeMan wrote: new install of Win XP Pro all updates. downloaded the GoogleDrive installer, ran it and it says there are no updates and that was it. What is it talking about? My other old laptop has googledrive installed OK. What do I need to get googledrive working on this "new" laptop ? I reproduced that. You ran the installbackupandsync.exe 1,130,328 bytes installer, and that's the dialog it puts up. The "no updates" crap. One of the things I did, was use the same approach, only in a Win10 x32 virtual machine. Then, copy the Drive folder over to the WinXP SP3 x32 virtual machine, and try to run it there. To make a long story short, the result throws an error. The keywords in the error dialog, helped me find the picture shown in this thread. The Google EXE is actually a python loader, which unpacks into your %temp%, then does some sort of dynamic library thing (Python aids the loading of some DLL), and whatever DLL it's looking for, is not present on WinXP. But the error message doesn't say *what* it was trying to load, so I cannot say anything more about whether WinXP should have that or not. We know Google hates WinXP, so what happened isn't a surprise. https://productforums.google.com/for...ve/oFp6rg8uL28 And then Alex_F in the thread says "Windows XP is not supported". Well, duh. The advice is, to go back to a previous version. https://dl.google.com/drive/3.36.6884.5911/gsync.msi Virus scan ( https://www.virustotal.com/#/file/d6...90e056/details ) And, it works. I'm using a VM that I keep rolling back, so when I installed this in WinXP SP3, it had never seen a Google product. And it seems to work. Note that, the installer is *really* sneaky. It exits without saying a damn thing. I went into my C:\Program Files and yes, there's a Google folder with a Drive folder in it. I ran the executable in there ("googledrivesync.exe") and it actually loaded and got past that [Python] problem. https://s1.postimg.org/1hp75k2mtr/tu..._the_straw.gif ******* Some background reading material for you. https://www.theverge.com/2017/9/7/16...p-app-shutdown "The aging Google Drive app for desktop is officially deprecated as of [Sep 7, 2017] There's Backup and Sync, the all-encompassing consumer app that replaces both the standalone Google Drive and Google Photos Uploader apps. It offers essentially the same functionality as Drive and works much the same way. " But if you go here, it'll feel like a dead end. Well, it's GoOgle, what else would you expect. https://www.google.com/drive/download/backup-and-sync/ Can you see a "Supported OS" FAQ entry ? I can't. Paul Thank You man! It worked like a charm :-) |
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