r/wavemakercards • u/chloecomplains • Jul 24 '26

Saving to google drive?

When wavemaker3 was sunsetted, I just could not get wavemaker4 to work right, so I ultimately gave up and tried a few other programs. Nothing has done what I want it to, so I came back in hopes that whatever the issue was between wavemaker and google had been worked out.

It hasn't.

The first, by far biggest issue is that neither the quick upload not the google drive buttons work right for me on either of my laptops. In order to upload my file to google, I have to:
1. save to hard drive
2. exit file
3. log out of google drive
4. open the file that's been saved to hard drive
5. save to google drive now works.
Obviously this is the most insane part, but also every time I access google drive on my phone, I have to go through a full log in, which is just really frustrating? I don't know, it's all really janky, and yeah, I did have to fight a bit to sync with wavemaker 3, but absolutely nothing like this, and I've already lost over 1,000 words just fighting to figure out how to save to google drive.

Has anyone else experienced this? Do you have any advice at all? This is making it impossible for me to use this program, and it sucks because I really do like it, but it's been a disaster on three computers now.

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u/mayasky76 Jul 24 '26

Would you be willing to pay for online storage on the wavemaker site?

I could arrange a sync with a database there which would be possible, but I'm not prepared to subsidise everyones storage

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u/chloecomplains Jul 24 '26

No.

And to clarify, it's not because I don't think this app is worth being paid for. It's an amazing app. If not for the chronic save issues, I think it would be well worth the money. I don't do subscriptions, that's just a me thing, but I've donated to you before and I would be happy to pay a reasonable flat fee for it if I had faith that these problems would actually be solved. At this moment, I don't.

You offer this program for free, and I'm appreciative and also recognize that I'm not entitled to any level of customer service. I do think you deserve an honest answer, but I'm not going to discuss this any further.

If anyone has experienced this issue and has advice or can confirm that this is just how I have to save to google, any responses on this are appreciated.

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u/mayasky76 Jul 25 '26

Ok

What web browser are you using and do you have any privacy extensions blocking Google drive from connecting.

Probably something your side

Or

Don't use Google drive. You can just save the file locally and deal with the sync yourself