

You can access all of your Google Drive files from there as well.Ĭoming next week on June 28th Google Drive will be rolling out some new features. Of course there is also Google Drive for tablets and smartphones. Update one file, the changes are immediately sent to the other computers that have Google Drive installed. If you need to access the same files that are on your desktop and laptop, you can have the same Google Drive account setup to both, with a mirror copy of all files on each.

Yet another reason that isn’t applicable to all but very useful to those that need it is having the same files on multiple computers. And of someone gets carried away with the editing, you can always roll it back to the previous version. No more emailing a document back and forth between 4 different people trying to straighten out a rough draft. You can go to your virtual drive and share a file with a coworker or friend, and both of you can work on the same file – online at the same time. However if you have placed files in your Google Drive folder, there is a copy online that can be accessed and downloaded again on a new hard drive.Īnother reason is for sharing / collaboration of files. If your computer hard drive dies, you lose all the saved files on it. There are several reasons why would you want to do this. For the few folks out there that may be unaware or not use Google Drive – this is a software based virtual “drive” associated with your Google / Gmail account (similar to Microsoft’s Onedrive) You can place any type of file in your Google Drive folder on your computer, and it automatically synchronizes to your online Google Drive account.
