Category: Google drive

In addition to Google’s responsibility and efforts towards securing your data, you also have a responsibility to protect the integrity and confidentiality of your files. Your Google Drive is as secure as your Google account and file-sharing settings you apply. The next thing we wanted the answer to was, are google drive files secure? Your […]

There is a setting in Google Drive file sharing called ‘Viewers and commenters can see the option to download, print, and copy’. It is false by default. I would like to enable it for some files programmatically so viewers could download them. Why can’t I download files from Google Drive? For many Google Chrome users, […]

Once your files have synced, you can access them from any browser on any device. Open the Google Drive folder on your desktop. By installing Google Drive, the Google Drive folder will be saved in a default location on your computer (unless you choose to save it in a specific folder). If you work on […]

Google Drive does not compress videos or photos when you upload the items. Even if you find the video uploaded playback is a blur, you do not worry about the quality loss, because Google Drive does not reduce your video quality. This post tells the 4 tricks you may ignore when you use Google Drive […]

When you sync files from Drive, it creates a new folder on your computer by the name Google Drive where it stores the contents from Drive. The folder location is visible under Backup and Sync Preferences > Google Drive > Folder location. The Google Drive folder is a regular folder in your file explorer that […]

If you’re experiencing a “zoomed in” browser it’s because you have an updated version of Chrome. Chrome and Fire. Fox now adjusts the page zoom level according to your Windows settings to better support high DPI displays. For example, if Windows is set to 125% font size (120dpi), the content area will be zoomed by […]

In fact, there are many reasons for Google Drive videos not playing, including corrupt browser’s cache, damaged app cache, improper browser configurations, browser extensions conflicts, and so on. Several users rely on Google Drive to upload and share pirated content. That’s just wrong, and Google will delete it sooner or Max Playback Resolution. How to […]

By processing a video, it means that the video is converted to different formats, codecs, resolution so that it can be played on different devices. That’s to say when Google Drive is processing a video, it is converting it. This also happens when you are uploading videos to other online services, such as You, and […]

The answer is YES. Install the google drive app on each machine and it will install a local copy of your google docs on your hard drive. Any changes you make to that local copy will be synced to the cloud AND every other machine connected to the drive account. When we were reading we […]

As a matter of fact, Google Drive File Stream (Google Drive for Desktop) does not take up space, because the Drive files are stored in the Google Cloud storage unless turning on Available offline feature for Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides. Can I limit the amount of available space in Drive file stream? But the […]