Saving Google Docs to NAS

[PowerPCFan]

Is there any way to save Google Docs, Slides, and Sheets to any place besides Google Drive? Preferably my NAS or my PC's hard drive are the best spots. My NAS is just an external USB hard drive and a Raspberry Pi, but I plan on upgrading it in a few years. 

 

You can export a Google Doc as a Word file, and import it back into Google Docs, and export as Word, and keep doing that, but it's hard to do, creates a duplicate file, and can mess up your document. 

 

Any ideas besides switching to Microsoft office? 

[Zalosath]

15 minutes ago, PowerPCFan said:

Is there any way to save Google Docs, Slides, and Sheets to any place besides Google Drive? Preferably my NAS or my PC's hard drive are the best spots. My NAS is just an external USB hard drive and a Raspberry Pi, but I plan on upgrading it in a few years. 

 

You can export a Google Doc as a Word file, and import it back into Google Docs, and export as Word, and keep doing that, but it's hard to do, creates a duplicate file, and can mess up your document. 

 

Any ideas besides switching to Microsoft office? 

Google stores these files a .gdoc/.gsheet/etc... files. Just store that. No need to export.

 

Mount your Google Drive onto your NAS as a mirror and you'll have it stored on the NAS and on Google Drive, synced.

[PowerPCFan]

1 hour ago, Zalosath said:

Google stores these files a .gdoc/.gsheet/etc... files. Just store that. No need to export.

 

Mount your Google Drive onto your NAS as a mirror and you'll have it stored on the NAS and on Google Drive, synced.

How do I do that?! 

[Zalosath]

14 minutes ago, PowerPCFan said:

How do I do that?! 

Something like this.

[PowerPCFan]

34 minutes ago, Zalosath said:

Something like this.

Could I mount my drive to my Windows PC and then drag/drop the .gdoc files to my NAS? 

[Zalosath]

14 minutes ago, PowerPCFan said:

Could I mount my drive to my Windows PC and then drag/drop the .gdoc files to my NAS? 

Yes you can do that too, if you want to include the manual step. Just download Google Drive onto your Windows PC and set it up to mirror files. You can either set it to mirror to your NAS for automatic backups, or just mirror to one of the drives on your PC if you want to copy and paste manually.

[PowerPCFan]

34 minutes ago, Zalosath said:

Yes you can do that too, if you want to include the manual step. Just download Google Drive onto your Windows PC and set it up to mirror files. You can either set it to mirror to your NAS for automatic backups, or just mirror to one of the drives on your PC if you want to copy and paste manually.

Aren't the gdoc files technically just links to the online google docs editor? I feel like I'm better off just using .lnk shortcuts to the Doc link haha

[Zalosath]

9 minutes ago, PowerPCFan said:

Aren't the gdoc files technically just links to the online google docs editor? I feel like I'm better off just using .lnk shortcuts to the Doc link haha

Hm yeah I suppose it is.

 

I don't see a good solution here for Google. You may just have to start using another app. LibreOffice is free. Or Word if you want the premium features.

 

Google's solutions are inherently cloud based, if you want to backup the actual data I think your only option is to export them as word docs.