Google Drive - Google Basics Part 4 

I love using Google Drive! Even use it for organizing my Recipes!

Great video and reminders for us self-proclaimed experts. There were main menu items within drive I have never even looked at.

Dear Steve, will you please make video on file organization systems?

I truly enjoy your videos, Steve!

Omg! I needed help on Google product and then I heard your voice. I used to watch your show on TV like 20 years ago! Definitely subscribed 😁

Steve, how do I add google drive to my file explorer as an option from my computer? I want to work in MS Word but save and access from my file explorer. Thanks.

Excellent video!👏

Hi Steve, I found you through the interview on the VidIQ channel and could not resist to come over :) Great channel, keep it up! Subscribed to learn more.

Gmail e-mails will count against your storage however sheets, docs, slides etc, will not count against your storage. You can even upload word and excel files and convert them to googles 'native' format and use up no drive storage space at all!

I second Steve's questjon.

Hi Steve, like the Google Basics series. Although I got some files at my Drive which I didn't downloaded in "Shared with me" section. I'm wondering how files end up there, even if I don't get any e-mails before with those files attached?

Thanks Steve, quick question, why does google drive store multiple copies of the same folders and files ? talking 10/20/30 copies of one file. Google support have had specialists and allsorts of people trying to fix it, still no joy. any thoughts, thanks Steve. and any idea why when trying to open folders and pics in google drive it asks to open in cloudconvert, so opening stuff in folders is real hassle .

Steve, I Wish You Would Come Up With A Way To Use (My Passport Ultra) I've Looked Into It And Most Videos Don't Tell Me Enough. I'd Like To Know What I Could Really Use It For And How I Feel You Give Enough Information On How To Use It. Thanks Bob

Great job, Steve. Thanks. I like Google Drive and all of its apps. I enjoy creating Docs, Sheets, and Slides files for personal use. Thanks for pointing out how to attach a file from Drive from Gmail. I've always relied on the share message from Drive.

my son just thought you are Santa. we love your videos

I’ve watched a number of your videos and love them! The one thing I don’t seem to find is how to create new calendars in mobile. Could you point me to a specific video for this?

One big plus of Google Drives for me, is that I get all the access and functionality on my Linux computers as well as Windows and Mac Computers.

What is the real difference between MyDrive and BackupandSync - it seems to me that if one is not making use of Google functions (like Docs, Sheets) and you just want to sync/store any files on the Google Drive from your PC that BackupandSync is the better option to make use of.

I didn't realise that by using the backup and sync app to upload my pictures that it would shrink the photos and them sync them back to my own PC. I get that they will be compressed on their own server (if I chose that option) but I really didn't expect it to overwrite the ones stored locally. I suppose in hindsight I should have guessed that it might do that. Good job I have backups !

Steve, Been following your Goole series. However, with Docs, I was surprised you didn't mention what I find to be the biggest time saver and best power tool - Voice typing (aka speech to text.) Using it I can get my ideas into a "notes" type document quickly (and roughly) significantly faster than by keyboarding. Afterward, I clean it up and share as you describe. It's a major time saver. If you haven't yet, give it a try. BTW I'm 72. Old dog - yep, new tricks - always! Welcome to "elderly geekdom!" :)

Hi Steve 👋. Will definitely be looking forward to, Google Drive "Photos", as That, is the only thing I have on GD. I'm not even sure how, but every time I take a picture with my Android phone, it syncs to my Apple iPad. That's been happening for at least 2 years now, but I don't know how, or why ? I don't even remember discovering that it was doing so. The bulk of my Photos, were taken using, Photo Scan, from Digitizing numerous old photo albums....So much so, that I ran out of storage and had to purchase more ! The only thing I do know, is that I have Google Photos & Google Drive on both devices...I do not recall, ever doing anything, (on purpose), to enable them to sync.... Although I do use my Google email address on all the Google Apps I installed on the iPad. I did have to use my Daughter's password in order to install them, as She set up my iPad about 6 years ago and put Her name, and Her Father's name all over the place. So sometimes My info is accepted, and sometimes Not. The Apple Cloud will not accept my info because it's in Her name, or Her Father's name. Fortunately, I do know Her Google password, because I totally forgot MY passwords for either device ! As a matter of fact, I got an, Ancestry DNA test kit more than a year ago, and found out the first requirement is to enter your email address, and password. So far, they tell me everything I entered is unacceptable ! Oh Well, I finally gave up. I apparently will Never know if I have any, "Long Lost Family" or not !, LOL 🤭. OH Well 😏, such is life ! Have a Good Day Steve 🌅. JaneLee ^_^ 12/20/18 8:49 AM PS, I got yelled at by someone in something I had commented on, for Including the date and time with all the comments I enter. I told them I couldn't stop, because I had OCD !😏

You may cover this on photos but I get confused when a photo taken on my phone appears on Drive and Photos; is one merely a link or are they both copies of the original on my phone?

I like drive because it is automatically saved!

Does Google Docs have a text box function?

Can you put in a link to Google drive because I can’t find it in this videos or any other Google drive videos description...

Does anyone know if someone that does not have a Google account can collaborate in Google docs

Think many people still a wee bit dubious about storing personal letters in the cloud.

Hi! May I ask how can I open messages from my Google account? I hope you can help..its like a chat messages but those messaging me is unknown to me.

new sub very helpful info thank you

Steve, can you do something on removing duplicate photos from google photos and drive. I know I have lots of doubles but can’t find a way of removing them. Thanks Rob UK 🇬🇧

Another great video! I've watched many of your videos and I can clearly see that you are a fan of the Google eco-system. My question is if Drive is such a a great tool, then why are you also using DropBox? Shouldn't using Drive negate the need to have DropBox?

I live in Google, we use the calendar, photos and I write in Drive/Docs. To date, I've written over 50 short stories, and two novels in Google drive. I started my 3 rd one a month or so ago. That said, There are cerian things it's not great for, or I'm just not using it right..LOl One thing is paginating long projects. I have yet to be able to get it to create a table of contents, natively. I can get to number the pages automatically, but if I insert a page into the beginning for a contents page, it moves all the numbers and I have to go and make sure the numbers are right when I write the table of contents manually. I would also like to set the default font to times new roman, and the point size to 14, instead of the default 12, But those issues aside, The benefits far outweigh any logistical problems. I can save a project to the hard drive as a PDF, Epub, or a Rich text Document, and I think a couple of other formats, which is handy. I usually save a copy of a finished work as a PDF for quick and easy emailing and sending to people. As usual great video.

Just a quick example of the power of the Google philosophy for any newbie who is still unsure:- I am writing a book, and I'd only been using Drive and Docs for 2 weeks. In a new chapter I started the first paragraph on my home PC+Chrome+Docs. Then I ran for the airport to get to Sicily. Late afternoon, I've booked into the hotel, grabbed a drink, got the wifi password, and I'm sitting in the hotel garden carrying on with the second chapter on my Chromebook, because my book is stored on the Google server/cloud in the States, and I can access it from anywhere! That's when I realised the power of Drive and Docs (at least for me). As I've said before, Steve, thanks to you I'm now a Google/Drive/Docs/Chromebook convert. Bye-bye MS!

Loved this part 4. You referenced a "structure" of files. Do you have samples of naming conventions or a video about organizing files?

I believe you are mistaken about Docs, Sheets, etc. you create are not charged against your storage limit

I have a question about Google drive and maybe someone can help. I have created a shortcut on my desktop and in the shortcut, I have an URL to a certain webpage. I can upload this shortcut to Google Drive and then it will turn into a URL file extension. For example. The name of the shortcut on my desktop is "WebPAge". After uploading it to Google Drive, it is called "WebPage.URL" When I click on this file (on Google Drive) I get the message from Google, saying that he does not know with what program it needs to be open. Also on my mobile device, it is asking me to install OfficeSuite. Also on Google Drive, after the file name (on my mobile device) I can see three dots for more options. If I choose there for "Open With", again it is asking me to install OfficeSuite. Anyone has any idea how I can fix this or maybe has a workaround for it? The reason I want this shortcut on my Google Drive is so I can open this on any device I like. Also, if I share the folder I had put the shortcut in with others, they also can just click that shortcut and open the webpage. Thanks for the solution or tricks.

I meant Rob's question.

Hello Steve Jamboard in a relative New GooGle device and software that works as a Whiteboard with all the Google integration advantages. For classrooms and Meetings is excellent. Best Wishes

Recommend password manager

Thanks Steve. I am finding this series very useful. Love your sister.

I have one serious reservation about using all the wonderful collaborative and synching tools that Google offer us, And that is that Google, as the owner, developer and writer of all the software has access to it and thus access to all of our data through the Google cloud. How can this be avoided other than not using Google?

Google Drive is my favorite cloude storage. And the more I think about my use of Evernote and OneNote, the more I wonder: Why on earth don't I just have my notebooks as folders (and subfolder) in Google Drive? I can have Docs, Spreadsheets, PDF, JPG, HTML and what ever is coming to my mind. No need for any subtile structures or any detailed tag system. If I need to find anything Google does the search. Am I the only one wondering if my need to get sub-sub-sub-subfolders and countless tags is just a remnant, a living fossil, a baby boomers obsession of ancient days without any reasonable search functions. What do you think about it?

How does Google make money off of providing Drive for free? Are they hoping people opt for more storage, or is there some other revenue source?

I got 100 gigabytes of storage with Google drive as a promotion for purchasing a Chromebook

Anambra

Why do you say GD is free? You know darned well Google has access to all this data and is monetizing it somehow.

Nigerian

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I cant make a printer work on my computer so this is a total waste of my time

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