Google Drive - 6 Features That Make it Awesome 

You're so great at explaining, plus good-paced talking, showing your face while talking really helps. Thank you!

I watch just a portion of one video tutorial and found it hard to stop watching as I had other things to do. I found Steve easy to understand and follow through his lesson plan. He is highly skilled at teaching to all educational levels...I am very impressed with his teaching style.

Hi Steve, I do not have any comment. I just want to say, thanks for all this work. I follow you on every video you upload. Really. Thanks a lot and keep on with this amazing work. Greatings from Portugal.

This is GOLD. Definitely time well spent. THANK YOU

Thank you for the tutorial, it was very helpful. Couldn't help but notice how enthusiastic of google drive drive you are in this video

What I love about your videos is that they appeal to all levels of tech ability - I think of myself as quite techie and I find them compulsive viewing (and I've picked up a few very useful tips). Thanks for making them :)

i know this is 3yrs old but I want to express that I just signed up for 1TB for 10/mo instead of 200gb so its just fantastic. my biggest draw is how easy it is to email files via links, the 25mb cap is tiny imo so its nice to be able to share 8gb file or more

You are a life saver!! I have been using Google Drive for years and just now actually learned a couple of things I needed to know, thank you!!

Excellent presentation - easy to follow and understand - plan to keep track of Steve's videos.

Thanks for sharing, someone wanted to see a very large video file, too large for email, and I found it easy to share it with them using Google Drive. Flickr is also great for sharing photos and videos and has 1000GB of free storage.

Glad I searched for info on dropbox and found your videos. Just what I was looking for and better than the other videos I'd watched earlier. I also used to watch you on TV all the time for your great tips and am glad to be able to continue that online :)

Thanks Steve for such fantastic video. I have switched my entire company to Google Business Apps and it is a new universe for me (but won't give up my iPhone and my Macs!). Love the integration so far and your videos are awesome. Thanks for all the effort you put on your videos to make it easier to understand. It helps tremendously. God Bless, rick

DT, your presentations are very clear, concise and loaded with info. My questions: 1. How can I have Google Drive sync with an external hard-disc? 2. Is there a way to have Google Drive take all of my desktop files, store them and I could therefore delete from my imac...to save on iMac storage space? 3. How do we select which folders NOT to sync with Google Drive? I paid $1.99 for 100gb but my gmail is using up 100% of my storage. Thanks

I really need to watch more videos, as I'm starting to store things for later use, and want to start putting them together in some kind of order, not all over everywhere like they are now, this was the kind of the first video I watched, I started on the first and then clicked this link, am looking forward to watching more and learning more, I didn't know there were these kind of videos out here, I'm so glad there are, thank you for this wonderful learning experience.

Steve, been a fan since Dotto Data cafe.. I actually called in once too! Still learning from you and you're the reason why I got into tech. Thanks a lot! Cheers!

Thank you so much for all your videos, Steve! I really appreciate the fact that you update them with the captions, too! A lot of videos go untouched and we are left with incorrect information, but I've never had that happen with Dottotech! Thanks again!

Thanks Steve. Another informative video. A seventh thing I like is new storage levels coming up. Google is upgrading storage to 1TB for the same price for 200GB. Another great reason to use Google Drive for non-Google items. Cheers

Thankyou, I am excited by the possibilities and will be watching all your tutorials now!

Awesome! Learned a lot. Just a note, Google storage is now $1.99 for 100 GB and $9.99 for 1TB. It changed again :) I'll probably never use all 15 GB but I am glad to know more about Google drive. Now that I know about Google Docs, I am going to convert my Word docs to Google docs so it will cut down on storage. Thanks for the information.

@6:48 - Correction for you about Sharing capabilities of Google Drive. It is not the same as Dropbox. Google will force the recipient to be a Gmail user. If you are not, you can't open the shared docs. I have tried many different ways and no luck. Just FYI.

Another great video! I'm happy to see that you noted the Updated (and lower) cost for Google Drive memory.

Awesome knowledge you kicked out dottotech. Just added the Goggle Drive extension 20 mins ago. Works like a charm. Thanks!

Many thanks for the great information, I learned new things about Google Drive such as "history of editing" that's really great.

Super tutorial! It still works with the updated drive backup thing even though it looks a little different!

Thanks for your time making these videos, they really work and are easy to understand. Keep working, congrats

thanks for the ideas. dont give up on the comparisions cos they help make good choices

I am so happy that I learned so much and got priceless advice from this vid. Thank you very much Steve.

OHMIGAWD ! I CAN UNDERSTAND THIS MAN !! Before looking at his profile I had thought (based on 30 years in television industry) THIS guy needs to be on TV! As a Baby Boomer and "artsy fartsy " vs the tech kind of mind I really struggle with feeling comfortable using ANY device. So often I've reached for help to find help ( on You Tube) and found only videos by: 1) Impatient young men who assume the viewers skills were equal to theirs and rushed through a presentation (Cust Svc EVERYWHERE should remind young men ...young ladies rarely, that they need to consider their audience/customer and be detailed in explanations. All we contact for help in tech Google, phone phone carriers, online retailer's, etc have the "scoop" on the caller in terms of age. I think it would be wise to allow the call assignment to "read" via software supplied from the phone number OR simply state AT THE BEGINNING OF THE call " I want you to have all the answers you need. Would you sayvyoure well seasoned on The Net/computers... whatever. IF the response is Im still learning .. " Then route that call to the "Patience Cus. Svc Dept." (Of course, yet to be created) This group is PATIENT by nature, male or female. In the long run employee's will be more cost efficient as the IMPATIENT, i.e. typival young male is going to rush the call, make assumptions of knowledge that most callers will not admit to lacking, then THEY hurry the call so they can call AGAIN hoping for a different personality style to whom they admit they need more help. (That would be the OTHER end of the male age spectrum OR females who are not accustomed to speaking up. As a female I have experienced my "help" calls to an out of English speaking call center are 50/50 extreme rudeness (cultural?) or extreme willingness to help but I cant understand the lilting voice pattern of their native tongue." ANOTHER REASON I APPRECIATE THIS GENTLEMAN is that he is obviously not trying to feed his ego by record breaking #if You Tube videos and therefore very thorough. OR uneccesarily long videos .

Steve, you are a true genius with Google. I am a Microsoft Office Certified Instructor and just recently added Google for Business classes to my curriculum. These videos really help me understand the Google world (as I am obviously a Microsoft girl) to be able to then teach my students and now use myself. Goodbye Outlook that crashes all the time! Thanks for making these tutorials easy to follow! Got any Hangouts videos? I'm a bit confused as to how to invite people to a webinar that is held in the future, then record, then post. Thanks so much!

Incredible video, your explanations are extraordinarily clear and helpful. Many thanks

Thank you for the time and effort you put into sharing the skills needed to assist a better society.

You can also use Google Drive and its Windows program called Google Drive Sync to two-way sync all of your folders and documents to a specified folder on your computer. Since the sync works two ways, I got clever and set this up to sync the folder that is also my user folder (kinda, I changed the layout of folders on my Win 7 setup). I basically have real-time backup of all my important files, for free. The limit to the free part was 15GB, but I bought a Chromebook and an LG G4, each of which gave me 100GB of Drive storage for 2 years, so I now have over 200 GB of free cloud backup. Google Drive is full of goodies like this.

Hi! Steve, Thanks a lot for the videos presentation on the comparison between Google Drive and Drop Box. As fast as my experience in using both of them, I found that I have the same feeling with you, I prefer to use dropbox rather than Google drive, because once the Google Drive, it's automatically to sync in the Google Drive, but you may know that Smart Phone can be opened by friends of mine once I live it on the table. Google Drive does not have a password before access to a document, but Drop Box do if you use it online (Not download onto device).

Very good tips as always from Steve,particularly ''the google doc revision history''.

great! I didn't know about that integrated search lab.. fantastic!

Great help! And I like how you did the presentation!

Hello Love your videos and watch them regularly, wanted to thank you for you efforts and also inform you that the App search is no longer available cheers L

Useful and very personal presentation.

Steve hi . looking good as always . just wanted to say that this one had particular benefit which I was totally unaware of, and would have been a great help the last 2 years. I have been working on a book, now No.! Amazon best seller, plus a website business, and coaching business. I do many many rewrites of IP and scripts and coaching material. I am always trying to find previous versions or decide which was the latest or not. Not being a techie expert like you, it is a minefield and massive time waster. Just tried the history thing, very very nice. I find google docs versus the rest of my laptop a nightmare anyway, too many choices of everything. Anyway, the revision history was gold for me, thanks . :)

I really appreciate all the time and care you have spent with this review. It is very well made and thorough. What program you use to make the video with the screen capture and your picture?

Great video, excellent points, I recently bought 100 gb on Drive, and it's great. I did it because they lowered their prices even more, $2/month for 100 gigs is nothing, really. I prefer Drive over Dropbox because I'm docs, people can cooperate in real time and leave comments, and it's well integrated with Hangouts. Big points there over Dropbox there too. :) Thanks for the tip of revision of docs, that will probably come in handy, and the save to Drive extension is handy too.

Aloha and Thank you for sharing this info. I have a suggestion which is to list the points you plan to make in the videos at the beginning. Then viewers can skip the points they already know. Mahalo from Maui.

Very interesting & helpful info. Thanks.

Thank you soooo much for making these videos. So very helpful.

Thanks so much for this clear tutorial on Drive. Excellent. I think Google should consult with you about how to make their products simpler.

Very informative and useful video - convinced me to go with Google Drive

Hi Steve, great demonstration of google drive... but the BIGGEST problem I have recently is that my "friends/collaborators" can not upload their files in MY googledrive (even when they have access to a folder)... They only can EDIT/VIEW a doc that I uploaded on MY drive... Hope this will be possible in the new googledrive apps... keep up the great videos.. love them...

Excellent video. Subscribed. Cheers!

Excellent as usual. Thank you! Love the Save to Google Drive tip. Cool!

Thanks Dotto!, All this, and google drive is totally new to me. And you're making it easy to me to get into this, both neat and fast! :) Thanks!

Awesome vids Steve! 2 years ago, I had made the choice to stick with dropbox but this vid just convinced me to try google drive again as a datastore since you mentioned that the gmail data usage isn't shared with google drive data usage. Of the features between the 2 products, I tend to look at the up/download sync speed so I'm excited to see how they compare now. Regarding jonathans concern for losing data: I haven't had an issue with either products on data loss. But if I lost data online which then sync'd with my device, I'm assuming that would wipe the synced folder on my device. I'm not sure if this would happen but that would be terrible if it did.

dotto-you do a fantastic job-thanks! just subscribed. I like how you have your face too, It makes it easier to follow, more human!

2 features you didn't mention are the ability to recognize text in an uploaded image and also the speech to text feature on an Android tablet works in Google docs. The resulting document can be viewed and edited on the desktop version.

*Brilliant video on GDrive* Understanding Google integration and space quota is key in order to tap into Drive's usefulness and power. Most importantly, I was very happy to see you talked about _Revision History_ in the GDrive suite. I find it is a feature not talked about much. I completely agree in that _Revision History_ is a feature we don't use a lot, but when we need it, we *really need it*. It just gives a great sense of security knowing that from the moment of creation, any bit of content may be recovered. Thanks for another great video!!

Thoroughly enjoy your videos and will become a subscriber.

Great video as always! But you may have a small mistake in the title "6 Features than Make it Awesome"

Excellent videos! many thanks

It's too bad that gmail labs got rid of aps search. That was a cool feature you suggested Steve.

excellent article. thank you for the tips.

Also, can you advise me on, or do you have any videos, or know of other videos, that might show me how to make my own online cookbook or file, to organize, and store the recipes and other online information that I want to save for later reference, one day I'd might like to start a blog, but for now I just want to save them for myself and maybe share with a couple of friends. Thank You, I love your videos.

Search on Apps isn't available on my Gmail. Also, any videos on the switch from Google Drive to Backup & Restore from Google?

Hi Steve how do you make your videos? the software to share the screen and record yourself? Thanks

Great video! I have a request - would you do a video about Google Docs & the apps that go with it. As a student I'm considering using their word processor as well as their storage. Thanks!

I give thumbs up and subscribed to your channel. I really like your enthusiasm for Google Drive. i want to learn this system because I am so tired of MS, I own a CB 11 and love the unit, However, have had some bumps in the road with faulty chargers, Hope they will get it corrected this year. Thanks again, Mark

Nice tutorial Many thank's

Steve, another fantastic video - thanks for sharing !

thanks for all your info

You do a great job at this. Thank you.

Bravo pour la presentation!

Thank you for the Info!

Great tips for Google drive.

I'd love an update. You do great work.

Ahh, I love revision history. Thank you for this video!

Anyone know if all, or any, of the features mentioned in this video are still current?

Thanks .Dottecch I also want to know That , can i send the images stored in my Google drive through Watsup Application in my Phone Directly without first downloading on my phone (specially when both Google Drive & Watsup are installed on My Phone) I am using android - HTC Handset

Thanks a lot for nice sharing and i just Subscribed!

Thanks for the video. It's helpful.

What program do you use to create your screencast? I love how you are able t zoom in as you highlight a specific feature on your desktop.

I don't seem to have the app search lab, how can I get that?

I agree with what you say, but add the caveat that files on Google Drive are safe from a problem on your computer, but not from a problem, as remote as it may seem, with Google's servers. So, especially with important documents, another back up is essential. At the very least, those files should be in two physically distant locations. For me, that's sufficient reason to keep using Dropbox. Following the rule of three for backups, I also use CrashPlan to back up all the files on my computer.

Thanks Steve great review.

Brilliant presentation. Google should hire you.

hmmm where do i find labs in settings? I want to add that extended search..

Edifying video.Thanks!

Thank you!

Great tips as usual 😍👍thank you 🌸

That was great... Very interesting and educational. 👍

Great tutorial!

Nice one. Really helpful.

Unfortunately, it seems the specific sharing scenario you cited in your other video, that led to this one: Dropbox's simple right-click sharing option straight from finder -- but specifically that you could copy the link to the clipboard -- still wasn't implemented by the Google Drive update! Yes, it now gives you various sharing options, but not that one...the one I use most...which is to upload a folder which I then need to share with someone by simply emailing them the link. Unless there's a glitch in my system, as sharing via that mail icon does absolutely nothing. So my two year battle continues, and cannot yet commit to one or the other!

Hi Steve, Has gmail done away with the 'labs' tab under setting? I am using the new version of gmail and that tab is gone. I want to follow your advice on adjusting the search option you mention on here but can't because the 'app search' is missing as it is found under labs.' thanks for your help!

Hi Steve, I notice that your Google setting layout is different from mine. May i know how do you customize it? Thanks! Justin (Singapore)

Steve, is there any way to NOT have all (sub) folders at the top of a GD folder. Drive obviously follows the PC convention. But on a Mac I have files and folders mixed according to importance. This is way better than being forced to have all folders at the top of the 'tree'. Can't see how to do this in Drive

HEY STEVE , I LOVED YOUR VIDEOS ON GOOGLE DRIVE. I HAVE A HUGE DILEMMA. HOW CAN I MOVE THE PHOTOS FROM MY GOOGLE PHOTOS CLOUD TO MY EXTERNAL SEAGATE HARD DRIVE? I CAN FIND ANYTHING ON THIS. KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK! #TEAM STEVE OVER HERE!

Kindly advise how to use google drive in ipad version. Where can i find the FIND & REPALCE features when i use it on ipad.

Steve, great video. Thanks for the tips and info. I too use both Dropbox and Google Drive. What I like about Dropbox is that I can open files from any device and can start editing them with what ever default office software I have installed. As far as I know, Google Drive documents must be edited via Google. Which means I can't edit them if I'm offline. Is that true?

Nice review of gdrive vs dropbox as well as some good features. I use both too, but have heard others having trouble upon re-syncing gdrive after reinstall of Windows. I found insynchq that helps resolve, but was wondering if google has resolved this issue yet or if there are any free alternatives to insynchq that you know of. Thanks!

Hi Steve,, great info - thanks. I'm struggling to figure out how to have 2 separate Google Drives on my MacBook Air (they are aligned to two different business emails/account). Could you help me please? Thanks!

When using Google Drive I have the tendency to scan from a normal printer to my computer but I'm having trouble with the idea of having to place that document into two different places am I able to change the setting for my printer to automatically scan documents to Google Drive and if so how?

Nice and helpfull. Thanks for your videos!