You are a life saver !! I Have never ever seen anyone explaining so many details like you did! No skipping any step … so clear ! I’m not a tech person but with this video anyone can do it !! Thank you !!!!!!
Tell Timmy I said, “thank you” very much. I’ve been looking for this. I saw a woman who said the same thing, but I thought going through email was not what I wanted. Turns out, it was. Thank you, and Timmy.!! Very step by step instructions for all platforms. Now I need to do the same with my iCloud that’s full.
I'm glad I could help! Unfortunately though, I don't have a video about iCloud. There might be a similar method you could use, but I've never really used iCloud, so I'm afraid I can't be much help there.
Thank you Timmy! This was indeed very helpful. Unlike some, I appreciate you doing the long detailed & to the point video and I'm also not left scratching my head in confusion . 😊
Ty for the expanded version - this should be multiple videos. The length alone might be make people not click. Make one for each device. This content is GREAT!
Yeah, maybe. When I finished recording it I felt like it was probably too long. But I kind of wanted to do it all in one video because creating and downloading the export is the same on all devices, so I would have ended up repeating myself a lot.
@@techtimewithtimmyI think having it the way you can jump to your device is perfect. You should probably tell people in the beginning, that they can click forward to their device. I had no problem with it, but some people want to get to their problem. Excellent explanation. More people should explain it step by step, like you. Thanks again.
I suffered (5-7)% chronic ear damage because of being exposed to an unhealthy amount of high-frequency sound present in this video, but it was worth it.
No, it won't download the shared files because they're not really in your drive. You could right-click on each file in "shared with me", click "copy to", and copy it across to your Google Drive. Then it would be on your Google Drive, so it would be included in the download. But if you really want to download all the shared with me files, the easier option might be to just click on the top one, scroll to the bottom, hold down the shift key, and click on the bottom one, to select all the shared files, then you could just click the download button to download all the shared files from there.
Thank you! Super helpful and well explained. Download failed the first time but worked the second time. Also wondering about json files which appeared in the transferred files. There is a json file for each of the photos I transferred. Can these be deleted? Did I miss an instruction?
A json file is just a data file apps will sometimes use to store extra information related to the real file. In this case, the json files would probably only be helpful if you ever decided to upload the images back on to Google Drive, and even then, they wouldn't be necessary. So yes, I would just delete the json files, the images will still be perfectly safe.
It's really just a case of uploading all the files from the Hard Drive to Google Drive. I have a video about uploading files to Google Drive here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-DGW2-aapaWI.html And entire folders here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-9C31d-oSNCs.html But to upload an entire drive, the easiest option would be to open the Google Drive website, open the hard drive in the files app, press ctrl/command + A to select all the files on the hard drive, then drag and drop the files onto the Google Drive website. Then, it should automatically start uploading everything.
After I've downloaded the zip to my external hard drive, when I try to extract the zip file I get an error that reads: Compressed zip folder errors: Windows cannot open the folder. The compressed zip folder is invalid. Any thoughts why?
That's strange, a zip folder from Google Drive shouldn't be invalid. Perhaps just try downloading it again, maybe even download it in multiple smaller zip files, to make it easier for the computer to extract.
Mac and Windows kind of do it automatically, so I'm guessing you're using Chrome OS? Unfortunately as far as I know there's no way to do it automatically on a Chromebook, so I would recommend bringing the hard drive across to a Windows or Mac computer to do that step if possible. If you are using Windows or Mac, and you want a more automated way to merge the folders. Unfortunately, I don't know of a more automated method on either OS, but if you Google something like "how to automatically merge two folders on ***", you might find something.
Unfortunately, this didn't work for me. I ran out of space and stopped downloading. I need to make a copy of my google drive as my school will no longer be supporting this as we are using Schoology.
@@techtimewithtimmy I purchased a 1TB external ssd drive that I want to save it in but I I am unable to download it from my google drive to the external drive. 😩
I think if you chose the send link via email method anyway, and get it to create the archive, you could just keep that tab open, and refresh it every few hours, and when the export is ready to download, there should be a button on that page to download the export. So you should be able to download it without receiving the email, it's just not as convenient.
You can use a very similar method with a Google takeout backup, but select Gmail instead of Google Drive, then you can download a zip of all your emails, just like I do with Google Drive files. But, the emails will download as an mbox file, which isn't very easy to open. But unfortunately it's the only way.
You could use the Google Drive sync functionality to sync everything in Google Drive to the files app on your computer. On a Chromebook, there will be a Google Drive section already in the files app where you can access Google Drive files. Or on Mac or Windows, you can install the "Google Drive for desktop" app: www.google.com/drive/download/ And follow the prompts within that app to have all your Google Drive files appear in the computer's files app. Once you are able to access the files within the files app, you could then just select all the files in there, and drag and drop them into the hard drive. Then, everything will copy across. However, if you have Google Docs in Google Drive, I don't think they will be copied to the hard drive when using this method. Whereas the zip method will automatically convert all your Google Docs to Word Docs and download them. Additionally, if you don't already have this set up on your computer, doing all of this is probably more work than just unzipping the files, but it is definitely an option. The other option would be to download each file one at a time so that they don't get zipped, but I'm sure you don't want to do that.
No, Gmail would have no access to the hard drive. You would need to search using your computer's files app. If you click on the hard drive in the files app, you can use the search function in the top right hand corner to search for files on it.
Sorry. I agree 59 minutes isn't ideal, but by the time I added all the information I thought I should, that's how long it ended up being. For future reference, would you mind letting me know which parts you think should have been removed/split into a separate video?
@@leannlundberg3804 I am learning but At first I thought the same like hurry up, but then remembered someone might not now much as I did before. He really helped me. Sorry for the long comment.
