Category: Google drive

Google Drive is a popular cloud-based file syncing service which allows you to play videos stored in its cloud. It highly supports many frequently-used video file types like MP4, MOV, AVI, WMV, 3GP, and more. You can handily upload your MP4 file and double-click it for the playback. In most cases, users have to use […]

The reason why Google Drive lowers video quality in playback is to save your storage and guarantee smooth playback. To be clear: Google Drive backs up all the original videos and it will transcode several video resolutions for playback. The transcoded videos will not affect your original uploads. Because, HD video playback in Google Drive […]

It means that your documents or files are temporarily unavailable. Usually, this issue is temporary, so wait a while and try to open your files again. First of all, try to open the Google Drive file. Then, a Request access page will open automatically. In this step, click on the Send icon. Open your Chrome […]

I have found the answer myself, which is Yes, downloading a document from Google Drive can reveal the document’s owner. If you open the document within the Google Drive environment, and then click on the three buttons, then click on Details, it reveals who the owner is. You can now see who viewed your Google […]

Dropbox allows you to use some of the same keyboard shortcuts as Google Drive, like Ctrl + b for bolding text, and some of these functions are shown in a pop-up toolbar when you highlight the text. However, there isn’t a taskbar with pinned shortcuts for any of these commonly used text formatting functions. Another […]

If you are using Google Drive on your PC, you may have stored lots of images or other files to it already. Do you notice one thing that when you delete one file / files / folder / folders on your Google Drive folder on your computer, it automatically get deleted from the Google Drive […]

If you wish to open the file in the Google Drive web viewer, the viewer URL would be : https://drive., and google. Open the file yourself. There’s an “upward trending” icon on the upper right, or you can get to the same thing from the pulldown menu. Inside that, there’s an “Activity Monitor”There’s an “All […]

If you already have a Google Drive folder on the first PC that is syncing with the cloud, you can sync between the two PCs via My Drive by simply setting the same on the second PC. “My Computer” allows you to sync any folder anywhere on your local drive (you can select any subfolder). […]

So, blocking in Google Drive is only restricted to file sharing. When you block someone, they are simply kept from sharing files with you. No matter how hard they try, they won’t be able to send over their spammy files. Why google drive refused to connect? If you see a message that says “drive. google. […]

Next month, Google Drive will automatically delete files and folders placed in the trash after 30 days. Starting October 13, 2020, we’re changing the retention policies for items in the Trash in Google Drive. With this new policy, any file that is put into a Google Drive trash will be automatically deleted after 30 days. […]