Sometimes you need a copy of your files in a place other than your Drive. Google Drive provides some options to do this, each one depending on what it is that you’re downloading. Downloading non-Google files e.g. Word docs, PDFs, mp3s, images) Right click on the file you want. Then click on “Download” from the menu. This… Continue reading Google Drive – Downloading your files & folders
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Google Drive (12) – Uploading files and folders
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Google Drive – Folders: 50 shades of grey
By default, all your folders are a lovely shade of grey. Not the most exciting colour, but that can easily be changed and is useful for quickly identifying the folder you want. 1) Right click on the folder you want to change. This brings up the menu. Click on “Change colour”. 2) This opens the… Continue reading Google Drive – Folders: 50 shades of grey
Google Drive – Sharing files and folders
Life is less lonely if you share stuff. Well, it’s the same with files and folders on Google Drive! Once you’ve created something often you want to share it with someone, a team, a class or even the whole world, and Google Drive allows you to do just this. Before looking at how it’s done,… Continue reading Google Drive – Sharing files and folders
Google Drive – Moving multiple files & folders
In this post, we’ll see the different ways you can move multiple files and folders around on your Drive. Click on the first file you want to move, then hold down Ctrl (or Cmd) and then click on the other files you want to move. The ones that you have chosen will be highlighted in… Continue reading Google Drive – Moving multiple files & folders
Google Drive (7) – Moving files around
With the latest version of Google Drive, it’s much easier to move files around and similar to what you may be used to on Windows or on OS. There are however, different ways to do it. Below are the 3 main ways. 1) Drag and drop within the files and folder area Just click on… Continue reading Google Drive (7) – Moving files around
Google Drive (6) – How to manage files and folders
You’ve got into Google Drive, now you need some files and folders to store in it. Let’s go through the most common actions you do with files and folders: creating, naming, copying, and deleting. ‘Moving’ I will cover in a different post as there are different ways to do this. Creating a file As an… Continue reading Google Drive (6) – How to manage files and folders
Google Drive (5) – How does it work?
In this post, I’m going to explain what Google Drive is and give you an overview of how it works. When you log into Google Drive, your computer connects to the place where your files are stored. This is ‘in the cloud’ which is actually a physical storage place somewhere in the world, in this… Continue reading Google Drive (5) – How does it work?
Google Drive – The menus (part 3)
At the top of the screen is the search bar and account options. Search bar It’s no surprise that Google includes a powerful search engine so you can find your files, without having to hunt for them via the folders. Just type in the words you want and press Enter. Google will search for filenames… Continue reading Google Drive – The menus (part 3)
Google Drive – The menus (part 2)
In this post, I’ll briefly go through the options on the bar above the files and folders area. The bar above the files and folders area, contains some more Drive options and also where you can find the location of a file of folder, via the breadcrumbs. Without a file or folder selected, you’ll see four… Continue reading Google Drive – The menus (part 2)