How to disconnect and uninstall Google Drive from your PC

My journey through cloud storage services has been wild and eventful over the past few years, and I can confidently say that two of them stand above the rest in terms of utility and value:Dropbox and Google Drive. Between the two, I prefer Dropbox because it's so hands-free.

What I mean is that maybe you have a similar story and now you want to get rid of Google Drive from your system. In that case, you have two options..

Disconnect Google Drive

Signing out is what you should do if you want to keep your Google Drive files on your system and in the cloud, but cease all syncing between the two from here on out:

1. Click the Google Drive icon in the system tray.
2. Click the More button, then select Preferences .
3. Navigate to Account> Disconnect account .
4. Click Disconnect .

Note that now that the sync is complete, the two sets of files (the set on your system and the set in the cloud) will start to diverge as you add and remove files from each other.

Uninstall Google Drive

If you want to stop syncing and delete all Google Drive files from your system, either to free up space or simply because you don't want them anymore, you can uninstall Google Drive. Please note that your files will still be part of your Google Drive account in the cloud.

On Windows

1. Open the Start menu, search for Programs and Features , and launch it.
2. Find Google Drive .
3. Right-click on it and select Uninstall .

On mac

1. Open Finder and navigate to Applications folder.
2. Select Google Drive.app and drag to the Trash (or press Command-Delete).

Now that you're no longer using Google Drive, let us know which cloud storage service you've moved to! Whether it's Dropbox, OneDrive, Box.net or anything else, we want to know!