Get started with Drive

Upload and shop files in Drive

Next: Access your files in Drive

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You can store any file in Google Bulldoze: pictures, drawings, videos, and more. Y'all only need to store a file in Drive on i device, and it will automatically be available on all your other devices. At that place are iii ways to become your files into Drive.

Upload files to Drive on the spider web

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If yous're using the latest version of Chrome or Firefox, you tin only drag files direct from your computer to the Bulldoze page on your browser.

If yous upload a file that matches the proper name of an existing file, Drive will add information technology as a new version, instead of creating a duplicate. To meet the previous version of that file, you can manage versions.

When you lot see Upload complete, your files accept uploaded successfully and tin be accessed in whatsoever browser or device that has Drive installed.

Upload files to Drive

Store files on your desktop

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Note: If you're using Backup and SyncSync instead of Google Drive for desktop, see Back up and sync files with Bulldoze.

If you lot desire to work on files from your desktop, install Bulldoze for desktop. Your files live in the cloud and y'all access them on demand. This frees up infinite on your figurer's hard drive, saves network bandwidth, and means less time waiting for files to sync. Yous can as well make files in Bulldoze available offline, and they'll sync to the deject when you're back online.

Subsequently you lot install Drive for desktop, yous access My Drive from File Explorer (Microsoft Windows) or Finder (Apple Mac) like any regular folder. Y'all tin can then movement your files to Drive, where it volition sync to the deject and free upward your estimator space.

(If yous decide afterwards to uninstall Drive for desktop, your Drive files won't be afflicted. They can still be accessed from Drive on the web.)

Drive for desktop is only available if your administrator has turned information technology on for your organization or team.

For more than details, see What tin you exercise with Drive for desktop.

Install Bulldoze for desktop:

When you install Bulldoze for desktop on your calculator, it creates a bulldoze in File Explorer or a location in Finder named Google Bulldoze for desktop. All your Bulldoze files appear here.

Move files to a folder:

If your internet connection breaks or you need to get offline in the heart of a sync, Bulldoze for desktop picks up where it left off when you're dorsum online.

Move Drive files

Suspension 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 outset sync support.

Pause Drive file stream sync

Upload files from your phone or tablet

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Yous tin can also utilize the Drive app to store files on your Android or Apple tree iOS device. (If yous decide later to uninstall the app, your Bulldoze files won't exist afflicted and tin can still be accessed from Drive on the web.)

  1. Depending on your device, choose one of these options:
  2. Find and install the Bulldoze app.
  3. Open the app containing the file you want to upload, tapShare, and so tapDrive.

Upload files from a mobile device


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