Get started with Drive

Upload and store files in Drive

Next: Access your files in Drive

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You can store whatsoever file in Google Drive: pictures, drawings, videos, and more. You only need to shop a file in Bulldoze on one device, and information technology will automatically be available on all your other devices. At that place are three means to get your files into Bulldoze.

Upload files to Drive on the web

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If you're using the latest version of Chrome or Firefox, you can simply drag files directly from your computer to the Drive page on your browser.

If you lot upload a file that matches the name of an existing file, Drive will add together information technology equally a new version, instead of creating a duplicate. To come across the previous version of that file, yous can manage versions.

When you see Upload consummate, your files have uploaded successfully and can be accessed in any browser or device that has Drive installed.

Upload files to Drive

Store files on your desktop

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If you lot want to work on files from your desktop, install Bulldoze for desktop. Your files live in the cloud and you access them on demand. This frees upward infinite on your computer'due south hard drive, saves network bandwidth, and means less time waiting for files to sync. You can too make files in Bulldoze available offline, and they'll sync to the deject when yous're back online.

After you lot install Drive for desktop, you access My Drive from File Explorer (Microsoft Windows) or Finder (Apple tree Mac) like whatsoever regular folder. You can so move your files to Bulldoze, where it will sync to the cloud and free up your calculator infinite.

(If you decide later to uninstall Drive for desktop, your Bulldoze files won't be afflicted. They tin still be accessed from Drive on the spider web.)

Drive for desktop is only bachelor if your ambassador has turned it on for your arrangement or squad.

For more details, run into What can yous do with Drive for desktop.

Install Drive for desktop:

When you install Drive for desktop on your estimator, information technology creates a drive in File Explorer or a location in Finder named Google Drive for desktop. All your Drive files appear here.

Move files to a binder:

If your internet connectedness breaks or you need to go offline in the middle of a sync, Drive for desktop picks upwards where it left off when y'all're back online.

Move Drive files

Pause syncing:

When paused, Bulldoze for desktop won't upload local changes to Drive, and new versions of files made available offline won't be downloaded. ClickResume Syncing to showtime sync back up.

Pause Drive file stream sync

Upload files from your phone or tablet

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You tin can also use the Drive app to store files on your Android or Apple iOS device. (If you lot decide afterward to uninstall the app, your Drive files won't exist affected and can however be accessed from Drive on the web.)

  1. Depending on your device, cull 1 of these options:
  2. Find and install the Drive app.
  3. Open up the app containing the file you desire to upload, tapShare, and so tapBulldoze.

Upload files from a mobile device


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