Employ Google Drive for desktop

Near Drive for desktop

Drive for desktop is Google'southward desktop sync client that lets y'all easily manage and share content beyond all your devices and the cloud. This application enables y'all to access your files and folders in a familiar location.

Yous can use Bulldoze for desktop to keep your files in sync betwixt the cloud and your reckoner. Syncing is the process of downloading files from the cloud and uploading files from your computer's hard drive. After syncing, the files on your computer match the files in the cloud. If you edit, delete, or motion a file in ane location, the same change happens in the other location. That way, your files are always upward to date and can be accessed from any device.

In Drive for desktop, yous can manage how much local storage you use and where your content is located by configuring Drive to stream or mirror your files and folders.

What information technology ways to mirror or stream your files

Mirroring and streaming are 2 ways to sync your files. In both cases, whatsoever changes you make to your files on i device will be reflected everywhere.

With mirroring, your files are stored in the cloud and on your figurer, which takes up hard drive space. You lot can access your files at any time, even when you don't take an net connexion or the Drive for desktop app running. You can access files through a binder on your computer.

With streaming, your files are stored in the cloud. Hard bulldoze space is just used when you open files or make them available offline. Files that are not bachelor offline can only be accessed when you're connected to the internet. All files, including those available offline, can be accessed but when the app is running. Y'all tin can admission files through a mounted drive on your computer.

  • Annotation: Recent versions of macOS may take a slightly different streaming behavior. Acquire more.

While you tin cull whether to mirror or stream your My Drive files, other folders on your device tin can only be mirrored. Additionally, files from shared drives, other computers, and backed-up USB devices can just exist streamed.

Options for syncing My Bulldoze

You tin can stream or mirror My Drive, depending on your preferences.

Configure My Bulldoze for streaming or mirroring

  1. Open Bulldoze for desktop.
  2. Click Settings Settingsand thenPreferences.
  3. On the left, clickFolders from Drive.
  4. Under "My Drive syncing options," selectStream files orMirror files.

Switch from mirroring to streaming

When you switch from mirroring My Bulldoze files to streaming My Drive files, the location of your files on your computer changes. The folder where you previously mirrored My Drive files will remain on your computer just will no longer sync. To avert data loss, make sure that data has finished syncing before cleaning up these folders.

On Windows, you volition need to quit Drive for desktop earlier removing the folder from your reckoner.

Switch from streaming to mirroring

When you switch from streaming to mirroring, My Drive volition no longer appear in your Google Drive streaming location. (Shared drives, other computers, and backed-upwardly USB devices volition nevertheless appear.)

Your My Drive files will exist downloaded to the binder yous choose when configuring this option. If there are already files in the selected folder, the application will attempt to non duplicate files that match what's already in the cloud. Files that are not present in the cloud already will be uploaded.

Options for other folders on your computer

Configure other folders on your reckoner

  1. Open up Drive for desktop.
  2. Click Settings Settingsand thenPreferences.
  3. On the left, clickFolders from your estimator.
  4. From this bill of fare, you can Add folders to sync with Bulldoze and fill-in to Photos, and you can edit preferences of folders that are already synced.

Sync to Google Drive and support to Google Photos

You can sync a binder with Google Drive or dorsum it up to Google Photos.

  • If you sync with Google Drive: Everything in the folder volition exist mirrored. All changes will be synced between your figurer and Google Drive. You lot tin can access all your files from any device at bulldoze.google.com or via the Google Drive app.
  • If y'all back up to Google Photos: Only photos and videos will be uploaded. Changes will not exist synced between your computer and Google Photos. You lot tin can view your photos and videos from any device at photos.google.com or via the Google Photos app.

Of import: If you are storing photos and videos, we recommend only backing up to Google Photos. If you cull to shop your files in both places, photos and videos in the binder get uploaded twice, which uses more of your Google account storage.

Give macOS permission

macOS requires applications like Drive for desktop to ask for permission to access certain folders and devices including your Desktop, Documents, and Downloads folders, removable and network volumes, and your Photos library.

Drive for desktop volition only inquire to access folders or devices yous choose to sync with Google Drive or back upward to Google Photos. Bulldoze for desktop will as well ask for access if you lot choose to utilise the Existent Time Presence feature or a Bluetooth central to sign in.

If you deny access, but want to continue syncing a binder or device, go to System Preferences and change your privacy settings. You might demand to restart Drive for desktop for changes to take effect.

Troubleshoot errors

In Drive for desktop, you might see a "Some errors occurred" imprint under "Activeness." You can view the list of errors by clicking the link in the banner or past clicking Settings and thenMistake list.

Sync with the Computers tab in Google Drive

If you lot sync folders on your computer with Google Drive, those folders volition appear in Google Drive under "Computers" on the left of Drive for web and on the Drive mobile app. If you add, edit, move, or delete items from these folders on web or mobile, those changes will as well be fabricated on your computer.

Modify the location of your local cache directory

When streaming files from Google Drive to your computer, a local cache directory is created.

  • The directory stores information almost files you open and make available offline.
  • The cache allows Drive for desktop to open up your files faster.
  • If your cache directory path is unavailable, you tin can't utilise Drive for desktop.

To change the location of your local cache directory:

  1. Open up Drive for desktop.
  2. Click Settings Settingsand thenPreferences.
  3. Click Settings Settings.
  4. Find "Local cache files directory" and click Modify.
  5. Select a new enshroud location.
  6. Click Alter.

Apple tree Photos Organisation Photos Library

You can only back up your System Photos Library to Google Photos. Other Apple Photo Libraries can be synced with Drive. If you lot choose to sync an Apple Photos Library with Bulldoze, everything in the library will sync, including thumbnails and other metadata.

Your System Photograph Library is the only library that can be used with iCloud Photos, Shared Albums, and My Photo Stream. If you have only one photo library, and so it's the System Photo Library. Otherwise, the kickoff photo library that you create or open up in Photos will become the System Photo Library. If you're currently using macOS Catalina or later, hard drive infinite will be temporarily used to download photos and videos from your iCloud and upload them to Google Photos.

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