actually it's enough to uncheck "convert to google document" and upload it in the original format without conversion.
Changing the filename did not work for me when I renamed to ".jpg" and then renamed the uploaded document back. I could upload and rename, but the filetype was still identified as "jpeg" and on download the file extension was reset to "jpg" (which could be quite confusing for other people you share it with)
Does Google Drive sync with Local Folders? e.g. I have a folder called work (c:/work). I drag that folder to Google Drive Desktop, it syncs. Thereafter I create a new file in (c:/work). Will Google Drive sync that new file, or must I drag it into Google Drive Folder manually.
Not in that way. The desktop portion of Google Drive works essentially the same way as Dropbox: There is a special folder (usually called "Google Drive") in your file system. Whatever you add to that is synced with Google Drive. Whatever you remove from there is removed from Google Drive and no longer synced.
If somehow I lose all my files on Google Drive Web. When I login to the Desktop Application, will it sync and remove all my files, or will it sync the files in the Desktop App back into the web account.
How would you "lose all your files"?
If you remove the files yourself via the web interface, then, yes, they'll be removed from your desktop file system (assuming your PC is running and the app can connect to the Internet). However, they should be in your "Trash" folder so you can recover them.
How else would you lose them via the web? If you lose access to your account then the desktop sync app won't be able to log in and sync your files, so they shouldn't be touched.
There's not really a "login" to the desktop app after you've set it up. It runs in the background and you don't really interact with it directly. (Again, very similar to how Dropbox works.)
Are there any other limitations as well as more efficient methods of using Google Drive for my work?
That's rather subjective and not really answerable. We don't know how you work.
You should have a look at Google Drive in the Help Center.
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You would be able to upload the files that way, but in order to watch them you would have to download all the parts and rejoin them. You can't watch a video straight out of a zip file on Google Drive.
I'm not sure why you would even want to do this, as Google Drive will allow you to upload whole videos up to 10GB in size. Because most videos are already highly compressed, putting them in a zip file would not help either as there would be no space savings by changing formats.
I suggest you just try uploading your videos and see if they will play. Google is quite picky about the codecs and formats... none of the ones I tested would play, even when in a fairly common format.
More details about videos in Google Drive.