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You will notice the new 'Google Drive' folder will have both your 'My Drive' and 'Team Drives' folders in it. Once all the files have disappeared, you can right-click the old 'Google Drive' folder itself and choose 'Remove from Sidebar', thereby leaving only the new 'Google Drive' folder (distinguishable by the little eject icon next to it) and eliminating any redundancies or confusion: You will be prompted to authenticate with your Macbook credentials again, as during the installation process: Do so by selecting it in the Favorites sidebar in Finder, selecting all the files therein, right-clicking and choosing 'Move to Trash': Only then should you delete the redundant old files from your old Google Drive local folder. You will be able to tell it's complete when the File Stream drop-down icon tells you 'Everything is up to date': IMPORTANT: Do NOT delete any files from your old Google Drive folder or remove that folder till the new File Stream sync'ing is complete.

For the time being, you will see both your old Google Drive folder AND your new Google File Stream folder on your computer, which is how you will want to leave it till the new File Stream finishes sync'ing with your cloud files:.

NOTE: It will disappear from your menu bar, but the files will remain in your local 'Google Drive' folder till you explicitly delete them (and remove the folder) from your computer:

If you don't get the above prompt, or if you choose 'NO, USE BOTH', you can always later click on the old Drive icon, click its little 3-dot menu button, and choose 'Quit Google Drive' to disconnect it:.

Click 'YES' to disconnect your old Drive:

You may get a prompt to 'Use Drive File Stream to sync My Drive', asking you to either keep both the old Drive and the new File Stream or to disconnect the old in favour of the new.

You should now see up in your Mac's top menu bar both your new File Stream icon and your old Drive icon, the new one still in the sync'ing process:.

At the 'Installation Successful' confirmation, click 'Close':.

After that, you can now click 'OK' back at the 'System Extension Blocked' warning window:.

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macOS 10.13 'High Sierra') - and all Curling Canada staff should be - you will then most likely be prompted with a 'System Extension Blocked' warning, prompting you go into your System Preferences and allow 'Google Inc.' software to be installed.

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If you are using the latest Mac operating system (i.e.

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This will be your e-mail address and its password you typically use to access your Gmail, etc.

You will then be prompted to login with your Google account.

This will be the same User Name and Password you typically use to log into your Macbook itself.

You will be prompted by your Mac to authenticate to allow the installation to continue.

Keep the default Destination and click 'Install':.

Click 'Continue' at the warning, and click 'Continue' again at the installer Introduction to proceed:.

dmg and double-click again to launch the. Once finished downloading, double-click to extract the.

Most Curling Canada staff are Macbook users, so will want to download the Mac installer ( 'googledrivefilestream.dmg'), accordingly.

If not, you can manually initiate the process by going to Google Drive Help > 'Use work or school files on your computer with Drive File Stream' and following the download/install directions there. If so, you can click 'Install Drive File Stream' and follow the prompts.

Some of you may have already encountered transition prompts like this: While there is an alternate new version of Drive for Mac/PC, called Backup and Sync, Curling Canada will be using Google Drive File Stream, as it makes more efficient use of space and supports Team Drives as well as individual Drives. It will no longer be supported by Google starting on December 11th, 2017, and it will shut down completely on May 12th, 2018.

With the introduction of Google Drive File Stream, the old 'Google Drive for Windows/Mac' client will be deprecated.