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Copying Files to Google Drive

Added May 19, 2022 •

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This video will walk you through logging into your Google Drive App and moving your files from your H Drive to your google (G:\) drive.

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today I'm going to show you how to log into your Google Drive and move your files from your H drive to your G Drive I'm sure you've seen this green when you've logged into your computer and you've either bypass it by clicking the x or you did sign in with your browser here we're going to sign in with my browser and I will show you in a minute how to check to see if you are already logged into your Google Drive he was going to ask for the account I want to use and I want to use my work account in many cases it will ask for a password in this case it is not going to ask for my password because I'm already logged into my account however should it asked for your password put in your password and continue this page is asking us to make sure that we are the ones who downloaded the app and are trying to access the information we did download this app for you when we rode out the computers last year so it is safe to go ahead and click sign in success we have signed into our Google Drive we no longer need this screen so we can close this and you can see right here it's telling us that the drive is loading our files will hit okay and this arrow in the system tray next to your clock if we click on that we can see the Google Drive icon right now it's colorized that means we are logged into our Google Drive if it is greyed out or not there at all that's an indicator that we are not logged into our Google Drive next we're going to go to our File Explorer and to our fellow tree for a computer here you can see the Google Drive in art drive this is another way to tell if we are logged into our app if we click in their file explorer and we have a g-drive available to us then we are logged on we are going to scroll down to this PC and here we have the g-drive again and Rh drive again and there's arrows next to them if we click on the Arrow is going to show us the folders that we have available in this drive everything that we are going to move we are going to move to my drive you can see I have an arrow next to my drive that is because I have other folders in there that I use if we click on the Arrow again it will retract those folders out of our view for this demonstration simply going to move the files into my drive I am not going to move them into other folders that I have available we click on the H Drive we find the files that we want to move we click and hold and then we drive them over towards you drive and down to my drive again I don't want to put them anywhere other than my drive so that's where I'm going to let it go if I wanted to I could go down to any of these folders so they're highlighted and let it go there so we can go towards you drive my drive and there is the file that I moved from my H drive to my G drive it is that easy I hope this tutorial and helpful for you as always your building Tech Liaisons are available to help you if you have any questions or or just need some guidance as well as Tom and I are available I hope you have a 1