Why google drive has a grey triangle with an exclamation mark beside whatsapp?

[acsurfer]

All the data sits in internal storage , drive has acces to it , you see when you go to drive it says back up but you cant open it .

Ok, so I guess whatsapp backup files that users can access and copy and paste are only the files inside the phone whatsapp folder, and not from google drive?

If my phone is lost/stolen, then I buy new phone I think there is a copy of whatsapp backup inside google drive and can only be restored by using whatsapp drive?

Anyway, I saw screenshots at https://www.quora.com/WhatsApp-In-w...-does-WhatsApps-chat-backup-feature-save-data
and video at 4:50min https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sh-u3vHy2vk showing the Google Drive whatsapp not greyed out.

 

[acsurfer]

Why I only have 4 backups done inside my whatsapps databases folder, and they are done a few weeks ago?

 

[mustang7757]

Ok, so I guess whatsapp backup files that users can access and copy and paste are only the files inside the phone whatsapp folder, and not from google drive?

If my phone is lost/stolen, then I buy new phone I think there is a copy of whatsapp backup inside google drive and can only be restored by using whatsapp drive?

Anyway, I saw screenshots at https://www.quora.com/WhatsApp-In-w...-does-WhatsApps-chat-backup-feature-save-data
and video at 4:50min https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sh-u3vHy2vk showing the Google Drive whatsapp not greyed out.

Maybe it's in the cloud , I'm not sure google cloud? Makes sense but also its stored on internal storage ?

I'm not 100% just letting you know what I know and see

 

[mustang7757]

As you see in Google drive it's a cloud where it says back up , think.its stored there then when you install WhatsApp it creates a file in internal storage that you can save ...