My Drive
1. My Drive
Welcome to Module Three, My Drive. In the last module, we looked at how you can share content in Google Drive. In this module, you'll learn how to upload files and folders in My Drive and work across file types. We'll also discuss how you can view arrange, organize, modify and remove files in My Drive. Remember, everyone has their own storage area which is known as My Drive. To create a new folder, go to My Drive, select New, and then select Folder from the menu. You can also right click on any open area in the files list or on the My Drive label and select New Folder from the menu. Folders can be nested and permissions in folders are passed to any content within them. To store existing content in Google Drive, you can upload files and folders from your device, select New and then File Upload to browse your device for files. Select one or more files and then select Open to upload them to Drive. For folders, select New and then select Folder Upload to browse your device for folders. Select a folder and then select Upload to upload it to Drive. Multiple files can be uploaded in this way. However, you can only upload one folder at a time. Microsoft Office files like Word, Excel and PowerPoint can be stored in Google Drive and edited natively in Google Docs, Sheets and Slides respectively. By default, any Microsoft Office files uploaded to Google Drive remain in their original format. Later, they can be opened and a copy saved to the appropriate Google format. Alternatively, you can automatically convert Microsoft Office files to the appropriate Google Docs editor format as they are uploaded. This is enabled from your Drive settings page. Remember that files for Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Drawings do not count toward your drive storage. Other file types do. Although there are many benefits to working in the cloud, you may want to download a file or folder to your device. Exporting your data is easy with Google Drive. To download a folder, right click on the folder name and choose Download. Drive will compress the contents of the folder into a zip file with the same name as the folder and download the zip file to your device. On your device, you can unzip the folder to access its contents. Any Google Docs Sheets or Slides in the folder automatically convert to Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint formatted files respectively. To download an individual file, the process is the same. Right click on it and choose Download. Drive will convert any Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides files to Microsoft Office formats before it downloads to your device. Remember that, when you download, you're making a copy of the files, so any changes made to the downloaded copies will not be reflected in Google Drive.2. Let's practice!
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