How To Use Google Drive Desktop App
On mobile tap the google drive app icon which resembles a yellow green and blue triangle.
How to use google drive desktop app. Go to google drive let s get started. If you don t yet have google drive on mobile you can download it for iphone or android for free. By putting it inside the google drive folder on your pc. Right click on a file. If you are logged in to your google account on an internet browser you must log out temporarily to install google on your desktop.
To access those files head to google drive on the web and click on my computers in the left menu. From here navigate to the google drive option in the sub menu and choose the preferences option located one menu beyond that. Open exe or dmg to automatically install and start google drive on your computer. Click the box to enable google drive to sync google docs sheets slides drawings at which point your computer will begin the process of downloading local versions of every document or picture stored on the linked account. You ll see my drive which has.
You can make an app the default for opening certain types of files. Google docs sheets slides and forms you create. If you want a file or folder to show up under my drive you ll need to sync it the old fashioned way. To configure the preferences on your desktop drive app right click the drive icon located either in your quick access bar windows 10 users or on the desktop icon. This option is also available in the drive mobile apps.
Once these are pulled down you ll be able to freely edit and save any file without a connection to the internet. Files and folders you upload or sync.