Toggle Charge-to-upload and metered Wi-Fi to spare battery; a 500-shot marathon drains 18 % on Pixel 8. After the bar hits 100 %, yank the card, stick it back in-camera, format in-body—never on the phone—to maintain folder structure tidy.
Outcome: 1 GB file propagates to three-dozen endpoints in sixty-eight seconds on-prem, versus 28 min via WAN link. Monthly WAN quota drops 42 %, and Finder/Explorer "cloud" badges update in a blink because the payload is already on the switch.
Prime CDN Edge Cache via Public-Link Warm-Up
Add ?cache=1 to any open-access URL and ping it from half-a-dozen geographically spaced VPS nodes (Mumbai) 30 min before you distribute the link. Each node runs curl -H "Accept-Encoding: gzip" -I "https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=FILE_ID&cache=1"; the 200 OK plus x-guploader-uploadid header proves the fragment is now resident on 15 edge POPs. Repeat the mirror hit from a residential IP in the same metro and you will see age: 1800—proof the blob stayed in RAM.
This URL serves the content without the usual viewer wrapper, so it loads inside an on every major browser. Keep the permission set to "Anyone with the link"; if you switch back to "Restricted", the stream returns 403.
Watch usage in real time: enable CDN logging and fire it to a webhook that increments a Redis gauge keyed by the token. When the counter touches the ceiling, issue a purge request to invalidate the path immediately; the following request gets 403 rather of the object.
Migrate to Drive Desktop’s "Mirror" Mode for LAN Sync
Turn on Mirroring in the desktop client, then point every office workstation to the same sync directory on a gigabit NAS. The first machine pulls 4.7 GB from the cloud; every other PC clones it over 1 000 Mb/s Ethernet in under 45 s instead of saturating the WAN link again.
Jump to the root. Add a shortcut file named "_ReadMe.pdf" that redirects to a single-slide cheat-sheet stored in your vault. The pdf is really a single-frame presentation exported from PowerPoint; tweak the source slide and the pdf self-updates on-the-fly for every new copy.
Add a one-line text file beside each PDF with the same base name plus .txt (vikings_isotope_2021_primary.txt). Include the DOI, three direct quotes, and a 20-word summary. The cloud indexer parses these text companions within seconds, letting you quote-search inside the web app: enter "isotopic baseline shifted" (with quotes) and the parent PDF opens instantly even if the phrase never appears in the filename.
Scraper radar check: run a brief window sum query in ClickHouse. A single IP grabbing the same asset >20 times in 300 s rates 0.9 chance of scraper; auto-revoke via webhook to your CDN endpoint. FP ratio logged on 1.3 M requests last trimester: tiny.
Fix "Too Many Redirects" and 403 Errors When Sharing Direct Links
Replace /file/d/FILE_ID/view with /uc?id=FILE_ID&export=download to stop redirect loops. Anything else triggers a chain of 302 hops that ends in ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS.
Lifespan: link stays valid while the owner keeps permissions.
Quota: standard 750 GB/day per account counts against owner, not viewer.
Codec: H.264/AAC streams instantly; VP9 transcodes and causes a 15-second delay on first hit.
Check with curl:
Plot coordinates from Drive pics straight into G-Maps for journey reports
Mass-harvest EXIF GPS dots with exiftool -csv -gps:GPSLatitude -gps:GPSLongitude -FileName *.jpg >geo.csv, then open My Maps → "Import" → pick the CSV. Map the filename column as label, switch to the image icon, and each thumbnail auto-populates at the correct lat/long. Drop the map link with read-only permission; clients tap any pin to peek at the shot, exact time, and a 30 cm-precision marker. One svelte 12 MB map manages a 2k pins; park the CSV in the shared cloud folder so updates re-up in a quarter-minute after you drag new photos.
Divide Large Files into 2 GB Chunks Before Sharing
Cut every upload >2 GB into 2 GB parts with WinRAR "Split to volumes" before you generate the link; the cloud back-end restarts interrupted chunks instead of the whole item, cutting redelivery time by 60–80 %.
Create one shared album per client and drop the secret link into the contract; the recipient sees a clean grid, can heart favorites, and downloads a ZIP that preserves EXIF plus your embedded IPTC copyright. Disable "collaborators can add" to prevent stray phone snaps from mingling with your edit.
Set uc?id= URLs to status: anyone with the link in the sharing panel; otherwise the asset returns 404. A fast way to obtain the ready-to-paste markup is via google drive file Download generator: paste the share URI, copy the embed code, and the tool appends the correct export=download parameter automatically.
Sign the route with your secret key using HMAC-SHA256, base64-encode the digest, and trim padding characters. Tack the Unix epoch delimited by a dot. The final string sits after token=. Example: https://b.b-cdn.net/whitepaper.pdf?token=MWVhN2QzZjIuMTcxOTM1MjAwMA. Anyone who fiddles with the expiry invalidates the signature and gets a 403.
