Category: Drive Posts

Sometimes you want to share your file or folder but not via the normal way of sharing within Google Apps. For example, you may want to add a link to your file on a webpage, or in an email using something like Outlook. Fortunately, this is really easy to do. Sharing the link to a… Continue reading Google Drive – Getting the link to your file so you can share it

Sometimes you need a copy of your files in a place other than your Drive.  Google Drive provides some options to do this, each one depending on what it is that you’re downloading. Downloading non-Google files e.g. Word docs, PDFs, mp3s, images) Right click on the file you want.  Then click on “Download” from the menu. This… Continue reading Google Drive – Downloading your files & folders

By default, all your folders are a lovely shade of grey. Not the most exciting colour, but that can easily be changed and is useful for quickly identifying the folder you want. 1) Right click on the folder you want to change.  This brings up the menu. Click on “Change colour”. 2) This opens the… Continue reading Google Drive – Folders: 50 shades of grey

Life is less lonely if you share stuff.  Well, it’s the same with files and folders on Google Drive! Once you’ve created something often you want to share it with someone, a team, a class or even the whole world, and Google Drive allows you to do just this. Before looking at how it’s done,… Continue reading Google Drive – Sharing files and folders

In this post, we’ll see the different ways you can move multiple files and folders around on your Drive. Click on the first file you want to move, then hold down Ctrl (or Cmd) and then click on the other files you want to move.  The ones that you have chosen will be highlighted in… Continue reading Google Drive – Moving multiple files & folders