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 As of January 2015, Google Apps for Education users have unlimited Gmail and Google Drive storage.  This allows you to do things like sync your entire documents folders so that you can access your files from anywhere and your files will always be protected from a computer or hard drive failure.  The following steps show you how to setup Google Drive, copy some files to it, and sync your entire My Documents folder under Windows 7. As of January 2015, Google Apps for Education users have unlimited Gmail and Google Drive storage.  This allows you to do things like sync your entire documents folders so that you can access your files from anywhere and your files will always be protected from a computer or hard drive failure.  The following steps show you how to setup Google Drive, copy some files to it, and sync your entire My Documents folder under Windows 7.
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   - Google Drive will now finish the installation and setup a new icon and folder on your computer.  \\ {{ :google:drive_14.png?nolink |}}   - Google Drive will now finish the installation and setup a new icon and folder on your computer.  \\ {{ :google:drive_14.png?nolink |}}
   - If you open up a file folder, you'll see a new Google Drive location in Favorites  \\ {{ :google:drive_15.png?nolink |}}   - If you open up a file folder, you'll see a new Google Drive location in Favorites  \\ {{ :google:drive_15.png?nolink |}}
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   - If you now login to Google Drive from your web browser, you'll see all the folders and files we just synced.  Click the list icon to show the items in a list versus the default grid pattern.  \\ {{ :google:drive_19.png?nolink |}}   - If you now login to Google Drive from your web browser, you'll see all the folders and files we just synced.  Click the list icon to show the items in a list versus the default grid pattern.  \\ {{ :google:drive_19.png?nolink |}}
   - Your files are all now available from any web browser or Google Drive program or app!  \\ {{ :google:drive_20.png?nolink |}}   - Your files are all now available from any web browser or Google Drive program or app!  \\ {{ :google:drive_20.png?nolink |}}
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 +===== Sync All Your Documents to Google Drive =====
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 +The real power with Google Drive comes when you setup your computer to automatically sync all your documents to Google Drive.  When you have this setup correctly, you do not have to worry about saving to a particular folder, you just save to your default My Documents folder and Google Drive syncs the files automatically as long as you are connected to the Internet.  If you are offline, the files will sync the next time you are connected.
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 +  - You first need to create a folder in your Google Drive for your My Documents folders and files. Just open your Google Drive folder, select New Folder, and name it My Documents. \\ {{ :google:drive_26.png?nolink |}}
 +  - Now, click on Libraries over in the folder menu.  \\ {{ :google:drive_21.png?nolink |}}
 +  - Expand the Documents and My Documents folders.  You can see all the folders I have in my folder.  When we are finished, all these folders will appear in Google Drive. \\ {{ :google:drive_22.png?nolink |}}
 +  - Right-click on My Documents under Libraries-Documents and choose Properties.  \\ {{ :google:drive_23.png?nolink |}}
 +  - Click on the Location tab.  \\ {{ :google:drive_24.png?nolink |}}
 +  - You should see the default Windows location for your My Documents.  It is usually something like ''C:\Users\(computer_login)\Documents''.  \\ {{ :google:drive_25.png?nolink |}}
 +  - Click the Move button.
 +  - From the dialog box, click your Google Drive folder under Favorites and select the My Documents folder you created in step 1.  \\ {{ :google:drive_26.png?nolink |}}
 +  - Now click Select Folder.  \\ {{ :google:drive_27.png?nolink |}}
 +  - The location box should now show the My Documents folder under Google Drive.  \\ {{ :google:drive_28.png?nolink |}}
 +  - When you click OK, you'll be asked if you want to move your existing files to the new location.  Select Yes.  \\ {{ :google:drive_29.png?nolink |}}
 +  - A copy files window will come up while Windows moves all your files to the new location.  Make sure you let it finish.  \\ {{ :google:drive_30.png?nolink |}}
 +  - Once it finishes, you can open your Google Drive folder.  You'll see the double blue arrows indicating that Google Drive has not yet synced all the files from that folder.  Depending on how many files you have and how large they are, the syncing process could take hours or even days in some cases.  \\ {{ :google:drive_31.png?nolink |}}
 +  - I will create a new document in Microsoft Word now and save it to the default location and see if it syncs.  \\ {{ :google:drive_32.png?nolink |}}
 +  - You can see I am just saving to the default location that comes up in Windows when you save a file.  I am naming my new file "Test Document.docx" \\ {{ :google:drive_33.png?nolink |}}
 +  - If I open my Google Drive folder now, I see the test document in there.  The green check mark indicates it has fully synced to Google Drive.  \\ {{ :google:drive_34.png?nolink |}}
 +  - If I login to the web interface of Google Drive, my document shows up there now too.  \\ {{ :google:drive_35.png?nolink |}}
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 +===== Sync Other Special Folders (Music, Pictures, and Videos) =====
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 +There are three other special folders by default in Windows 7: Music, Pictures, and Videos.  You can also setup these folders to sync automatically to Google Drive.  To do this, follow the steps above, except substitute the appropriate folder anywhere you see My Documents.  To do all your pictures for example, create a new folder in your Google Drive called "My Pictures", expand Libraries-Pictures, right-click on My Pictures, choose Properties, select Location and Move just like you did in the previous article.
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google/drive_sync.txt · Last modified: 2019/03/28 08:32 by harwood

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