How to Install and Use Google Drive for Desktop
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- čas přidán 2. 08. 2024
- In this video, you will learn how to use Google Drive for Desktop. I will show you how to install and set up Google Drive for Desktop. Once it is set up you can quickly drag and drop files into Google Drive for desktop or create new files within it. All changes will be quickly synched between your Google Drive for Desktop and your Google Drive. Choose folders on your computer to sync with Google Drive or backup to Google Photos, and access all of your content directly from your PC or Mac
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0:00 Introduction
1:00 Download and Install Google Drive for Desktop
1:44 Where you will find Google Drive on your computer
3:04 Synching files and folders from your computer with Google Drive
4:31 Opening and syncing Microsoft files
6:27 Google Drive for Desktop settings
7:01 Backup other files on your computer in Google Drive for Desktop
8:06 Stream files vs Mirror files in the Google Drive for Desktop app
8:53 Adding another Google account
9:12 Adjusting more settings (disconnect account, change drive letter)
Excellent video. Clear and concise. Thanks for saving me a bunch of headaches!!
Thanks for this clear and to the point tutorial! I appreciate all you do! I just subscribed!
You created a fantastic video. The section on adding additional users to sync Drive was espeically helpful.
Thank you! I got a new computer and just wanted to pull down all my synced files from Drive to the new PC and couldn't figure it out. You were the only resource I found who mentioned that THEY GO TO THE G: DRIVE by default. Holy cow, that was annoying. All my files were there the whole time. The Google documentation of this simple process is insane. Thank you so much!
Oh my gosh, thank you so much. I was about to have a headache from my computer. You definitely save me a ton of problems.
I really like how clearly and succinctly you explain the concepts.
thank you, had big problems finding it out myself. with your video, it was done in a minute
Excellent! Made it very crystal clear.
this was an awesome video.....I was struggling for a couple of hours trying to figure this crap out...ten mins with this video and i am now a Google drive Pro!! Thanks so much!
Hello! appreciate this clear and comprehensive tutorial! May i know if you have noticed any reduction in your laptop's battery life esp when syncing between the desktop version and the online version. I am concerned about the battery life for my laptop and was wondering if you could weigh in on this issue when using google drive for desktop. thanks in advanced!
Very well done, sir. Thank you, for the demo! (:
I was waiting for this video. Thank you 😁👍👍
You're welcome!
Thank you for your tutorial.
Hi Sir, Thanks for your video.
I got a question for the Google Drive File Stream for the Desktop,
We have subscribed Google Workspace Business Standard plan, and we found that the XLSX may not notify if someone is opening the files and may loss the edited data if 2 people open the file at the same time...
May I know any method can use to overcome this issue?
Thanks
Thank you so much I wasn't sure what this software did. Now I see it's pretty much the same RaiDrive or Expandrive have been doing for a while now.
Thank you very much, excellent explanation, I got my google drive exactly like I wanted it.
Very appreciative of the video. Thank you!
Awesome as always. Ty sir!..
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Very helpful, thank you for posting this great information.
Very helpful!! thanks
Very nice and well-done video!
Hi Jamie, that's useful! Greetings from The Netherlands
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Wow...very well done....Thank You
Do we continue to create files in the original C drive folder or Only in the G Drive folder?
Very clear presentation
youve changed my life!
super helpful! I have two accounts and was surprised you even covered that!
Much appreciated. Great video. Saved me lots of time.
Thanks for your clear explanation
So helpful Thanks dude
Thank you so much for saving me a headache 11 months later
Hello thanks for the video first of all, I add a big folder at google drive with subfolder subsubfolder etc big folder that I want to keep it sync and when I press done and save nothing is sync on a cloud even after 6 hours
Thank you sir!
Thank you very much
Gamechanger! Thank you!
Hi, Thank you for the informative and very helpful video. I've two Google Drives - one on my private Google account and one on my business Google account. I've created a G: folder on my desktop for my private Google drive. I was wondering how I can create a separate folder for my work-related Google drive.
You can sync both accounts (up to 4) using Google Drive for Desktop and you'll see each account listed individually on your computer so you can easily access the content of either. I add shortcuts to each on my desktop.
Trerific, thanks
*thanks!*
To general I need to set it up to syn my excel files at work so I can save & move them home.you only help people who have already using & want it better. JR
Hey, love your videos. I have google drive downloaded but it opens in the mobile format. How do I change that?
Hi, thank you for your video. I have 900+ files that are still syncing. May I know it is the storage space or what might the problem might be for all the files to sync?
Thank You
thanks for your teaching how to download google drive in window 10 and it was clear 👍👏👏
This is great thank you. So can I use google drive instead of having a one drive account.
Thanks!
Hi. Thank you for the great video. Are you able to post one on how to change the default C Drive location for the My Drive to a different Drive (like an 8TB separate HDD) ? Thank you.
I would like to see this also 🤞
Lifesaver of a vidoe. Lifesaver
How do you view .heic extension? I'm not sure what that is, but I noticed it comes up on photos now some, and windows doesn't always want to open those files.....is it an apple extension?
Thank you
Hello! appreciate this clear and comprehensive tutorial! I can ask about shared folder, I tried myself and I can't connect my shared folder to computers.
Does it make a difference if you save something directly to the Google drive? Or does it sync both ways? I ask because I saved a bunch of photos directly to Google Drive but they are not showing when I look on my computer.
Syncs both ways.
Can you link two separate google drives to your desktop? I have a school drive and personal drive. Thank you!!
sir hi!how to backup google browsing history?time to time my android is full of watsapp videos and some images pdf r important .how to bacup and get back what i want and delete to create space on my mobile?any ideas or tricks plese share?thnks
Hi, thank you for this detailed video. I have some issues loading my drive. I have a normal Drive account. I also have some documents shared with me. there are a couple of errors that I get: 1) The server encountered an error. Please try again later. The other error I get is "There were some problems loading your apps." I've tried emptying the cache. I've tried uninstalling chrome and reinstalling it, I have also tried opening on other browsers like Opera mini, but I encounter the same issue. Nothing works. I just need access to my drive documents and other documents people have shared with me. I would appreciate some help with the problem. Thank you so much.
How can I get google finance portfolio to import to google Sheets? Thank You
i have a question though. but how do i get the files that i once i had sending to onedrive out and save them to the google drive instead? i followed all this and it has been successful but all the things that were once in onedrive say that they are still file pathed in one drive. i want everything to be pc storage or google
. any help appreciated.
Thanks and I’m gonna give Drive For Desktop a try. Can you please confirm if I can sync one DFD with multiple PCs? I have a desktop at home but also use a laptop when traveling and want both PCs to always be in sync with DFD. Again, thank you.
Syncs with everything you're using DFD with.
does google drive affect the space on your computer. e.g. my compes drives say local drive has 320 gb of free space and google drive has 310 gb of free space. if i add to google drive online does it take up space on my computer. so say i get 1 tb on google drive will it even be able to transfer to google app on my computer? thank you
Would you be able to help? I tried but it says can’t sync folder
Great video !
Thanks!
is there any way to make the the sink works in one way like from my desktop to my Google Drive like I'm like copy the files I don't want it to repeat the thing from Google Drive to my desktop I just want to files to be copied from my desktop to Google Drive all the time I don't care if the files are synced correctly on both sides I just want any fire created on my desktop to be things in my drive and so I can access from other place is there any way to do so please I just delete it to Google Drive
I set this up on my personal Google account some time ago. I also selected some folders on my PC to back up. I now see that I accidently selected My Drive to back up, so I think I have My Drive in the cloud twice. And they are not identical. I see some folders in the back-up version that are not in my current My Drive. Could that be because I deleted it from My Drive but the back-up keeps it? When I look in Activity for the back-up version nothing has happened for a long time, so it is not backing up? confused.
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Previous version of Google drive was better where we used to have it as a folder and not as a Virtual Drive. It's easy to access on Jupyter Notebook while coding..
Is there a way to get google drive for desktop to show me the google drives that are listed under "SHARED WITH ME"??? I am on some boards of directors and they all have google drives that I would like to see in Windows 10 like I see my personal google drive.
Good
Is it possible to rename them linked account so it doesnt show the gmail ?
Want to ask about my google drive it has a question mark on its icon in my desktop, with error when starting the pc, googledrivefs.exe - application error - the application was unahle to start correctly (0xc0000005), click ok to close the program
Is it possible that from desktop . I just right click - get shareable link from desktop immediately? because it works on One drive.
If my Hard Drive crashes and I have been syncing files from my Desktop and Documents on my PC, how do I retrieve my files that may have been lost if I was not syncing?
Quick question... would adobe files like indesign and photoshop also work? I want to save adobe files in the google drive folder but will I be able to edit them and save them? Like would it save my work and I can continuously work on the file thats saved in my google drive? Basically the same example you used for Microsoft word.
I don't see why not. The files are still saved on your computer. Though if the files are very large and your upload speed is not that fast, it may take a long time for the files to sync up to Google Drive. But otherwise it should work fine.
It looks quite good. I have stuff scattered all over; let me try this..
where do I find the download
Thanks for teaching
When I install google drive for Windows 10 it does not ask me to sign and defaults to one of my many gmail accounts but not the one I want to use. How do I change the gmail account that google drive for desktop points to? thanks....
Hello sir please make a video on turabian style writing in MS word 2019.
I’ll look in this.
Hello thanks for the video Any idea why "my computer" shows on my google pixel in the drive app, but t does NOT show up in google drive on my laptop, or on my desktop (both windows 11). The "my computer" folder is avaialble on the web page version, and on my pixel phone drive up, but NOT my laptop or PC google drive desktop app. Its very confusing. I've tried to re install, delete cache, etc on both machines. But nothing i do will allow it to show. Strangley "my laptop" DOES appear on the laptop and desktop pc google drive app, and ive never used that folder and it has nothing in. But "my computer" is full of stuff that i've synced, it just won't show. Any help would be great please!
is there a reason why i dont see my shared folder in my google drive desktop?
My question does not pertaining to this topic.
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Thanks. Roger
Thanks for the guide. But, I still have the same concern. The capacity of G drive is the same as my hard disk. That defies the entire point of having a large capacity (2TB) cloud storage. I never chose "mirror" option, I didn't even select a folder to be available online. I've seen the same question in many forums without a concrete solution. I didn't have such issue with Dropbox for many years. I switched to Google because it was much cheaper. Anyone knows how to manage this? For instance, I have 100gb empty space in my hard disk but 2tb of Google storage. I only see 100gb G drive. (note: I'm not worried about slow access to cloud files, most of them are for my back up, not for daily use)
What's the point of the google drive app? I've tried looking into it. I assumed you'd be able to open your docs and sheets files via an application, like how it works on the phone, but instead it always opens in browser. I can't imagine an actual usage for this other than that but it seems like that's not what this does.
yeah you are absolutely RIGHT!!!!
Seriously it's so fucking stupid I kept getting prompted to download this app so I did. And it keeps opening up the fucking browser it's so fucking dumb I'm deleting it
This should be EASY... but it's not, because I can't find the way to do it.
At first, I built all my files in Google Drive (GD) on my PC-1. I have tons of files of all types. I can see them, rename them, move them etc. No problem there.
THEN: I bought a new pc. PC-2
I soon realized I wanted to SEE all my files on my PC-1 on the new PC... And that is where the problem begins.
Would you like to help me? I could make a short video to make things simpler and faster. WHAT DO YOU THINK?
TIA
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Does anybody here know why the new Google Drive app for Windows 10 sometimes just stops working? It's an issue because it's a virtual drive now and if that stops I can't save my open files anymore since the location doesn't exist anymore.
Also I could not even locate where the app stores the files now on my computer and that's nagging me too.
I want to switch accounts. I've uninstalled and reinstalled, and when I reinstalled it, it instantly signed me in instead of letting me choose an account in the browser. Why?!
Since I moved to drive for desktop it has been a nightmare. The g drive disappears from my PC all the time. The old sync software worked great
Does this happen after a restart or is random?
@@TeachersTech random it seems
I have a similar issue. Frequently have to disconnect drive and then reconnect by login in through my browser. This only happens on the newest of my 2 Lenovo laptops and not on my desktop either. The issue migrated along to Win 11. I've uninstalled and reinstalled 3 times and have just resigned myself to living with it.
You are great !
Like your voice. Like your knowledge, but your presentation is full of the word "here", which means i have to be able to quickly see where your cursor is. Instead of "here", plse use the the name of the location your are moving to. then I would find your video helpful.
Came to say the same thing, really hard to understand and massive lack of proper vocabulary for the topic. cant believe this dudes a teacher lol
I want to keep Google drive but only want to remove it from this pc
I hate that it makes a new virtual drive. I already had a partition ready. No idea how to change it
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In your presentation, there is no "Computers" selection under Google Drive on the web - simply "My Drive". I believe this has been introduced since your video was created two years ago. Can you clarify the difference between these options? Everything I find reads like stereo instructions!
Google needs to employ you, because their own tech support is a nightmare
google drive is shit... it never syncs for me.
This is too complicated.
Not for Mac. Find other videos
You want so fast thru the first download part that the rest of the Video is useless.
Did u know that google now made it Physically impossible to Disable syncing your private, sensitive files, to the Cloud? They are as Bad as microsoft ONEDRIVE, Now.