I watch just a portion of one video tutorial and found it hard to stop watching as I had other things to do. I found Steve easy to understand and follow through his lesson plan. He is highly skilled at teaching to all educational levels...I am very impressed with his teaching style.
I am having Great difficulty operating your software, I wrote you an email stating that I am a quadriplegic and need someone to assist me loading the program or request my money to be return because I cannot load it. Please advise Steve! Richard R. Larson Jr.
Hi Steve, I do not have any comment. I just want to say, thanks for all this work. I follow you on every video you upload. Really. Thanks a lot and keep on with this amazing work. Greatings from Portugal.
Thank you so much for all your videos, Steve! I really appreciate the fact that you update them with the captions, too! A lot of videos go untouched and we are left with incorrect information, but I've never had that happen with Dottotech! Thanks again!
Glad I searched for info on dropbox and found your videos. Just what I was looking for and better than the other videos I'd watched earlier. I also used to watch you on TV all the time for your great tips and am glad to be able to continue that online :)
What I love about your videos is that they appeal to all levels of tech ability - I think of myself as quite techie and I find them compulsive viewing (and I've picked up a few very useful tips). Thanks for making them :)
Thanks Steve for such fantastic video. I have switched my entire company to Google Business Apps and it is a new universe for me (but won't give up my iPhone and my Macs!). Love the integration so far and your videos are awesome. Thanks for all the effort you put on your videos to make it easier to understand. It helps tremendously. God Bless, rick
I really need to watch more videos, as I'm starting to store things for later use, and want to start putting them together in some kind of order, not all over everywhere like they are now, this was the kind of the first video I watched, I started on the first and then clicked this link, am looking forward to watching more and learning more, I didn't know there were these kind of videos out here, I'm so glad there are, thank you for this wonderful learning experience.
DT, your presentations are very clear, concise and loaded with info. My questions: 1. How can I have Google Drive sync with an external hard-disc? 2. Is there a way to have Google Drive take all of my desktop files, store them and I could therefore delete from my imac...to save on iMac storage space? 3. How do we select which folders NOT to sync with Google Drive? I paid $1.99 for 100gb but my gmail is using up 100% of my storage. Thanks
i know this is 3yrs old but I want to express that I just signed up for 1TB for 10/mo instead of 200gb so its just fantastic. my biggest draw is how easy it is to email files via links, the 25mb cap is tiny imo so its nice to be able to share 8gb file or more
@6:48 - Correction for you about Sharing capabilities of Google Drive. It is not the same as Dropbox. Google will force the recipient to be a Gmail user. If you are not, you can't open the shared docs. I have tried many different ways and no luck. Just FYI.
Steve, been a fan since Dotto Data cafe.. I actually called in once too! Still learning from you and you're the reason why I got into tech. Thanks a lot! Cheers!
OHMIGAWD ! I CAN UNDERSTAND THIS MAN !! Before looking at his profile I had thought (based on 30 years in television industry) THIS guy needs to be on TV! As a Baby Boomer and "artsy fartsy " vs the tech kind of mind I really struggle with feeling comfortable using ANY device. So often I've reached for help to find help ( on You Tube) and found only videos by: 1) Impatient young men who assume the viewers skills were equal to theirs and rushed through a presentation (Cust Svc EVERYWHERE should remind young men ...young ladies rarely, that they need to consider their audience/customer and be detailed in explanations. All we contact for help in tech Google, phone phone carriers, online retailer's, etc have the "scoop" on the caller in terms of age. I think it would be wise to allow the call assignment to "read" via software supplied from the phone number OR simply state AT THE BEGINNING OF THE call " I want you to have all the answers you need. Would you sayvyoure well seasoned on The Net/computers... whatever. IF the response is Im still learning .. " Then route that call to the "Patience Cus. Svc Dept." (Of course, yet to be created) This group is PATIENT by nature, male or female. In the long run employee's will be more cost efficient as the IMPATIENT, i.e. typival young male is going to rush the call, make assumptions of knowledge that most callers will not admit to lacking, then THEY hurry the call so they can call AGAIN hoping for a different personality style to whom they admit they need more help. (That would be the OTHER end of the male age spectrum OR females who are not accustomed to speaking up. As a female I have experienced my "help" calls to an out of English speaking call center are 50/50 extreme rudeness (cultural?) or extreme willingness to help but I cant understand the lilting voice pattern of their native tongue." ANOTHER REASON I APPRECIATE THIS GENTLEMAN is that he is obviously not trying to feed his ego by record breaking #if You Tube videos and therefore very thorough. OR uneccesarily long videos .
Thanks for sharing, someone wanted to see a very large video file, too large for email, and I found it easy to share it with them using Google Drive. Flickr is also great for sharing photos and videos and has 1000GB of free storage.
Awesome! Learned a lot. Just a note, Google storage is now $1.99 for 100 GB and $9.99 for 1TB. It changed again :) I'll probably never use all 15 GB but I am glad to know more about Google drive. Now that I know about Google Docs, I am going to convert my Word docs to Google docs so it will cut down on storage. Thanks for the information.
Thanks Steve. Another informative video. A seventh thing I like is new storage levels coming up. Google is upgrading storage to 1TB for the same price for 200GB. Another great reason to use Google Drive for non-Google items. Cheers
You can also use Google Drive and its Windows program called Google Drive Sync to two-way sync all of your folders and documents to a specified folder on your computer. Since the sync works two ways, I got clever and set this up to sync the folder that is also my user folder (kinda, I changed the layout of folders on my Win 7 setup). I basically have real-time backup of all my important files, for free. The limit to the free part was 15GB, but I bought a Chromebook and an LG G4, each of which gave me 100GB of Drive storage for 2 years, so I now have over 200 GB of free cloud backup. Google Drive is full of goodies like this.
Hi! Steve, Thanks a lot for the videos presentation on the comparison between Google Drive and Drop Box. As fast as my experience in using both of them, I found that I have the same feeling with you, I prefer to use dropbox rather than Google drive, because once the Google Drive, it's automatically to sync in the Google Drive, but you may know that Smart Phone can be opened by friends of mine once I live it on the table. Google Drive does not have a password before access to a document, but Drop Box do if you use it online (Not download onto device).
Steve, you are a true genius with Google. I am a Microsoft Office Certified Instructor and just recently added Google for Business classes to my curriculum. These videos really help me understand the Google world (as I am obviously a Microsoft girl) to be able to then teach my students and now use myself. Goodbye Outlook that crashes all the time! Thanks for making these tutorials easy to follow! Got any Hangouts videos? I'm a bit confused as to how to invite people to a webinar that is held in the future, then record, then post. Thanks so much!
***** Thanks for the kind comments, I will be doing a some more on Webinars in the near future. Check out Ronnie Bincer for more on hangouts, he is the authority on them!
dottotech thanks much for the kind mention. ***** inviting people to watch a hangout is different than to be 'inside' the hangout filmstrip... depends on the type of inviting you are talking about, but from the context of your question, I'd assume you are wanting to get people inside the filmstrip to be part of the show. Key tip: you should not invite people into the Hangout Interface before you are in it, so you'll need to be there first, then use the "invite people" option up top. Sharing the link from within the invite dialog is a common technique when trying to get newbees into the Hangout filmstrip as they tend to not know where to look for the various ways to find the invite. My AllAboutHangouts.com training course covers many more details about inviting people (both into the filmstrip & as a viewer). Hope that helps!
Hello Love your videos and watch them regularly, wanted to thank you for you efforts and also inform you that the App search is no longer available cheers L
Aloha and Thank you for sharing this info. I have a suggestion which is to list the points you plan to make in the videos at the beginning. Then viewers can skip the points they already know. Mahalo from Maui.
Great video, excellent points, I recently bought 100 gb on Drive, and it's great. I did it because they lowered their prices even more, $2/month for 100 gigs is nothing, really. I prefer Drive over Dropbox because I'm docs, people can cooperate in real time and leave comments, and it's well integrated with Hangouts. Big points there over Dropbox there too. :) Thanks for the tip of revision of docs, that will probably come in handy, and the save to Drive extension is handy too.
Thanks .Dottecch I also want to know That , can i send the images stored in my Google drive through Watsup Application in my Phone Directly without first downloading on my phone (specially when both Google Drive & Watsup are installed on My Phone) I am using android - HTC Handset
*Brilliant video on GDrive* Understanding Google integration and space quota is key in order to tap into Drive's usefulness and power. Most importantly, I was very happy to see you talked about _Revision History_ in the GDrive suite. I find it is a feature not talked about much. I completely agree in that _Revision History_ is a feature we don't use a lot, but when we need it, we *really need it*. It just gives a great sense of security knowing that from the moment of creation, any bit of content may be recovered. Thanks for another great video!!
2 features you didn't mention are the ability to recognize text in an uploaded image and also the speech to text feature on an Android tablet works in Google docs. The resulting document can be viewed and edited on the desktop version.
Hi Steve, great demonstration of google drive... but the BIGGEST problem I have recently is that my "friends/collaborators" can not upload their files in MY googledrive (even when they have access to a folder)... They only can EDIT/VIEW a doc that I uploaded on MY drive... Hope this will be possible in the new googledrive apps... keep up the great videos.. love them...
Steve hi . looking good as always . just wanted to say that this one had particular benefit which I was totally unaware of, and would have been a great help the last 2 years. I have been working on a book, now No.! Amazon best seller, plus a website business, and coaching business. I do many many rewrites of IP and scripts and coaching material. I am always trying to find previous versions or decide which was the latest or not. Not being a techie expert like you, it is a minefield and massive time waster. Just tried the history thing, very very nice. I find google docs versus the rest of my laptop a nightmare anyway, too many choices of everything. Anyway, the revision history was gold for me, thanks . :)
Hi Steve, Has gmail done away with the 'labs' tab under setting? I am using the new version of gmail and that tab is gone. I want to follow your advice on adjusting the search option you mention on here but can't because the 'app search' is missing as it is found under labs.' thanks for your help!
I really appreciate all the time and care you have spent with this review. It is very well made and thorough. What program you use to make the video with the screen capture and your picture?
+Annette Ingram I use Screenflow. I have a free recorded webinar on how I produce my videos, check it out. www.dottotech.com/screencasting-sectrets-webinar-opt-in-page-2/
Awesome vids Steve! 2 years ago, I had made the choice to stick with dropbox but this vid just convinced me to try google drive again as a datastore since you mentioned that the gmail data usage isn't shared with google drive data usage. Of the features between the 2 products, I tend to look at the up/download sync speed so I'm excited to see how they compare now. Regarding jonathans concern for losing data: I haven't had an issue with either products on data loss. But if I lost data online which then sync'd with my device, I'm assuming that would wipe the synced folder on my device. I'm not sure if this would happen but that would be terrible if it did.
Sir , I'm using google drive for the first time ,I want to know whether they take some specific charges ,but I only want to save my photos so I read the entire thing of t&c applied but still confused ,plzz help me sir
Hi Steve... I just started a Google Drive account and I believe I clicked a link to include Pictures... now my Google drive is full before even starting... over 15GB.... how do I change it so that I do not include my photos... If want to view photos, I would include them in a folder to view across different computers... also, random pictures keep popping up at the top of my google drive under "Quick Access"... how do I stop that or is it all tied in with the photos... please let me know.
When using Google Drive I have the tendency to scan from a normal printer to my computer but I'm having trouble with the idea of having to place that document into two different places am I able to change the setting for my printer to automatically scan documents to Google Drive and if so how?
One feature that doesnt make it awesome. When I upload images, movies to one account using drive I can also download the stuff I have uploaded. When switching to the other drive account I can upload but not download the files any more. Any idea Why???
Steve I bought G Drive transitioning from OneDrive and I'm seeing that G Drive doesn't show the size of folder. This is insane, a basic function for storage. How do u deal with this? thnaks
Also, can you advise me on, or do you have any videos, or know of other videos, that might show me how to make my own online cookbook or file, to organize, and store the recipes and other online information that I want to save for later reference, one day I'd might like to start a blog, but for now I just want to save them for myself and maybe share with a couple of friends. Thank You, I love your videos.
Question: If a friend shares a 2mb file with me from his Google Drive, does the 2mb file size also counted against my free space? Dropbox does that, and I don't like it. Because it should just share access, not copying the file into my drive.
+Dayne Williams You could type up your text in an image program like Photoshop or take a screenshot of a Microsoft Word document, insert the image onto the Google Doc, and then set it as View Only to those you share it with. That way, the text will technically be an image, not text, and therefore not copy/paste-able, but still viewable.
Steve, is there any way to NOT have all (sub) folders at the top of a GD folder. Drive obviously follows the PC convention. But on a Mac I have files and folders mixed according to importance. This is way better than being forced to have all folders at the top of the 'tree'. Can't see how to do this in Drive
Question: On my PC i have a google drive map in my windows explorer, and when i save my files there is auto-syncs with the google drive cloud itself. Does anyone know where this map is on my tablet using Windows RT 8.1? Or do i need the PRO version for 3.99 to have this map? Thanks in advance
random question, if my hard drive fails will that delete all my files saved in my Google drive folder, because what ever I do in the folder happens online?
You're so great at explaining, plus good-paced talking, showing your face while talking really helps. Thank you!
I watch just a portion of one video tutorial and found it hard to stop watching as I had other things to do.
I found Steve easy to understand and follow through his lesson plan. He is highly skilled at teaching to all educational levels...I am very impressed with his teaching style.
+Richard Larson Thanks Richard! I appreciate the comments!
I am having Great difficulty operating your software, I wrote you an email stating that I am a quadriplegic and need someone to assist me loading the program or request my money to be return because I cannot load it. Please advise Steve!
Richard R. Larson Jr.
This is GOLD. Definitely time well spent. THANK YOU
Hi Steve, I do not have any comment. I just want to say, thanks for all this work. I follow you on every video you upload.
Really. Thanks a lot and keep on with this amazing work. Greatings from Portugal.
Thank you for the tutorial, it was very helpful. Couldn't help but notice how enthusiastic of google drive drive you are in this video
You are a life saver!! I have been using Google Drive for years and just now actually learned a couple of things I needed to know, thank you!!
Glad we could help!
Thank you so much for all your videos, Steve! I really appreciate the fact that you update them with the captions, too! A lot of videos go untouched and we are left with incorrect information, but I've never had that happen with Dottotech! Thanks again!
+Sarah E Summers thanks Sarah! we try, I am glad you noticed!
Glad I searched for info on dropbox and found your videos. Just what I was looking for and better than the other videos I'd watched earlier. I also used to watch you on TV all the time for your great tips and am glad to be able to continue that online :)
+Michael Colynuck I am glad we reconnected!
Excellent presentation - easy to follow and understand - plan to keep track of Steve's videos.
Mary Krisko it is nice to have you on booard
What I love about your videos is that they appeal to all levels of tech ability - I think of myself as quite techie and I find them compulsive viewing (and I've picked up a few very useful tips). Thanks for making them :)
I really appreciate that comment Rob. That is one thing we always concentrated on when we produced the TV show.
Thanks Steve for such fantastic video. I have switched my entire company to Google Business Apps and it is a new universe for me (but won't give up my iPhone and my Macs!). Love the integration so far and your videos are awesome. Thanks for all the effort you put on your videos to make it easier to understand. It helps tremendously. God Bless, rick
Thanks so much Rick Leme It is always a pretty big leap of faith to move to the Google Apps, but it sounds like it is working out for you guys!
I really need to watch more videos, as I'm starting to store things for later use, and want to start putting them together in some kind of order, not all over everywhere like they are now, this was the kind of the first video I watched, I started on the first and then clicked this link, am looking forward to watching more and learning more, I didn't know there were these kind of videos out here, I'm so glad there are, thank you for this wonderful learning experience.
DT, your presentations are very clear, concise and loaded with info.
My questions:
1. How can I have Google Drive sync with an external hard-disc?
2. Is there a way to have Google Drive take all of my desktop files, store them and I could therefore delete from my imac...to save on iMac storage space?
3. How do we select which folders NOT to sync with Google Drive? I paid $1.99 for 100gb but my gmail is using up 100% of my storage.
Thanks
i know this is 3yrs old but I want to express that I just signed up for 1TB for 10/mo instead of 200gb so its just fantastic. my biggest draw is how easy it is to email files via links, the 25mb cap is tiny imo so its nice to be able to share 8gb file or more
@6:48 - Correction for you about Sharing capabilities of Google Drive. It is not the same as Dropbox. Google will force the recipient to be a Gmail user. If you are not, you can't open the shared docs. I have tried many different ways and no luck. Just FYI.
Steve, been a fan since Dotto Data cafe.. I actually called in once too! Still learning from you and you're the reason why I got into tech. Thanks a lot! Cheers!
ImmortalDragon That is awesome! It really makes my day hearing that!
OHMIGAWD ! I CAN UNDERSTAND THIS MAN !! Before looking at his profile I had thought (based on 30 years in television industry) THIS guy needs to be on TV! As a Baby Boomer and "artsy fartsy " vs the tech kind of mind I really struggle with feeling comfortable using ANY device. So often I've reached for help to find help ( on You Tube) and found only videos by:
1) Impatient young men who assume the viewers skills were equal to theirs and rushed through a presentation (Cust Svc EVERYWHERE should remind young men ...young ladies rarely, that they need to consider their audience/customer and be detailed in explanations. All we contact for help in tech Google, phone phone carriers, online retailer's, etc have the "scoop" on the caller in terms of age. I think it would be wise to allow the call assignment to "read" via software supplied from the phone number OR simply state AT THE BEGINNING OF THE call " I want you to have all the answers you need. Would you sayvyoure well seasoned on The Net/computers... whatever. IF the response is Im still learning .. " Then route that call to the "Patience Cus. Svc Dept." (Of course, yet to be created)
This group is PATIENT by nature, male or female. In the long run employee's will be more cost efficient as the IMPATIENT, i.e. typival young male is going to rush the call, make assumptions of knowledge that most callers will not admit to lacking, then THEY hurry the call so they can call AGAIN hoping for a different personality style to whom they
admit they need more help. (That would be the OTHER end of the male age spectrum OR females who are not accustomed to speaking up. As a female I have experienced my "help" calls to an out of English speaking call center are 50/50 extreme rudeness (cultural?) or extreme willingness to help but I cant understand the lilting voice pattern of their native tongue."
ANOTHER REASON I APPRECIATE THIS GENTLEMAN is that he is obviously not trying to feed his ego by record breaking #if You Tube videos and therefore very thorough. OR uneccesarily long videos .
Thanks for sharing, someone wanted to see a very large video file, too large for email, and I found it easy to share it with them using Google Drive. Flickr is also great for sharing photos and videos and has 1000GB of free storage.
Awesome! Learned a lot. Just a note, Google storage is now $1.99 for 100 GB and $9.99 for 1TB. It changed again :) I'll probably never use all 15 GB but I am glad to know more about Google drive. Now that I know about Google Docs, I am going to convert my Word docs to Google docs so it will cut down on storage. Thanks for the information.
David Santos Thanks David, and I bet you do found a way to use all that storage, it is surprising how it grows!
Awesome knowledge you kicked out dottotech. Just added the Goggle Drive extension 20 mins ago. Works like a charm. Thanks!
Monty Pearson Glad to help!
Thank you for the time and effort you put into sharing the skills needed to assist a better society.
Thanks Steve. Another informative video. A seventh thing I like is new storage levels coming up. Google is upgrading storage to 1TB for the same price for 200GB. Another great reason to use Google Drive for non-Google items. Cheers
Super tutorial! It still works with the updated drive backup thing even though it looks a little different!
Many thanks for the great information, I learned new things about Google Drive such as "history of editing" that's really great.
thanks for the ideas. dont give up on the comparisions cos they help make good choices
Thankyou, I am excited by the possibilities and will be watching all your tutorials now!
Margo Fourman Good to hear Margo, the newest one is online now,
www.dottotech.com/gytcpage1/
Another great video! I'm happy to see that you noted the Updated (and lower) cost for Google Drive memory.
Thanks William, what great timing form Google! I am sure they changed th price just to make me have to work a bit harder!
Very good tips as always from Steve,particularly ''the google doc revision history''.
I am so happy that I learned so much and got priceless advice from this vid. Thank you very much Steve.
+Carlos Baide Glad to help!
You can also use Google Drive and its Windows program called Google Drive Sync to two-way sync all of your folders and documents to a specified folder on your computer. Since the sync works two ways, I got clever and set this up to sync the folder that is also my user folder (kinda, I changed the layout of folders on my Win 7 setup). I basically have real-time backup of all my important files, for free. The limit to the free part was 15GB, but I bought a Chromebook and an LG G4, each of which gave me 100GB of Drive storage for 2 years, so I now have over 200 GB of free cloud backup. Google Drive is full of goodies like this.
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Hi! Steve, Thanks a lot for the videos presentation on the comparison between Google Drive and Drop Box. As fast as my experience in using both of them, I found that I have the same feeling with you, I prefer to use dropbox rather than Google drive, because once the Google Drive, it's automatically to sync in the Google Drive, but you may know that Smart Phone can be opened by friends of mine once I live it on the table. Google Drive does not have a password before access to a document, but Drop Box do if you use it online (Not download onto device).
Good point Sok Savuth in some cases that may be a difference maker!
Thanks for your time making these videos, they really work and are easy to understand. Keep working, congrats
I am glad you like them Luis Astorga Fonseca. I will keep making them if you keep watching them!
Steve, you are a true genius with Google. I am a Microsoft Office Certified Instructor and just recently added Google for Business classes to my curriculum. These videos really help me understand the Google world (as I am obviously a Microsoft girl) to be able to then teach my students and now use myself. Goodbye Outlook that crashes all the time! Thanks for making these tutorials easy to follow! Got any Hangouts videos? I'm a bit confused as to how to invite people to a webinar that is held in the future, then record, then post. Thanks so much!
***** Thanks for the kind comments, I will be doing a some more on Webinars in the near future.
Check out Ronnie Bincer for more on hangouts, he is the authority on them!
dottotech thanks much for the kind mention. ***** inviting people to watch a hangout is different than to be 'inside' the hangout filmstrip... depends on the type of inviting you are talking about, but from the context of your question, I'd assume you are wanting to get people inside the filmstrip to be part of the show.
Key tip: you should not invite people into the Hangout Interface before you are in it, so you'll need to be there first, then use the "invite people" option up top. Sharing the link from within the invite dialog is a common technique when trying to get newbees into the Hangout filmstrip as they tend to not know where to look for the various ways to find the invite.
My AllAboutHangouts.com training course covers many more details about inviting people (both into the filmstrip & as a viewer). Hope that helps!
Hello
Love your videos and watch them regularly, wanted to thank you for you efforts and also inform you that the App search is no longer available
cheers
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+Leela Banerjee Thanks Leela!
Incredible video, your explanations are extraordinarily clear and helpful. Many thanks
Thanks *****
Aloha and Thank you for sharing this info. I have a suggestion which is to list the points you plan to make in the videos at the beginning. Then viewers can skip the points they already know. Mahalo from Maui.
RayPublicHealth Thanks, great tip, let me ponder it a bit!
Very informative and useful video - convinced me to go with Google Drive
Useful and very personal presentation.
Search on Apps isn't available on my Gmail. Also, any videos on the switch from Google Drive to Backup & Restore from Google?
great! I didn't know about that integrated search lab.. fantastic!
Yes a very nice feature!
Thanks so much for this clear tutorial on Drive. Excellent. I think Google should consult with you about how to make their products simpler.
LOL I think they have far better people than I, but I thank you!
Great video, excellent points, I recently bought 100 gb on Drive, and it's great. I did it because they lowered their prices even more, $2/month for 100 gigs is nothing, really. I prefer Drive over Dropbox because I'm docs, people can cooperate in real time and leave comments, and it's well integrated with Hangouts. Big points there over Dropbox there too. :)
Thanks for the tip of revision of docs, that will probably come in handy, and the save to Drive extension is handy too.
Great help! And I like how you did the presentation!
Marian Helmick Thanks Marian!
Thanks .Dottecch
I also want to know That , can i send the images stored in my Google drive through Watsup Application in my Phone Directly without first downloading on my phone (specially when both Google Drive & Watsup are installed on My Phone) I am using android - HTC Handset
Not sure, cacscma coach I am not up to speed on whatsapp. just started using it
*Brilliant video on GDrive*
Understanding Google integration and space quota is key in order to tap into Drive's usefulness and power. Most importantly, I was very happy to see you talked about _Revision History_ in the GDrive suite. I find it is a feature not talked about much.
I completely agree in that _Revision History_ is a feature we don't use a lot, but when we need it, we *really need it*. It just gives a great sense of security knowing that from the moment of creation, any bit of content may be recovered.
Thanks for another great video!!
Thanks Eduardo, I appreciate the comments! It just takes one time when you need it to gain real appreciation for Revision History..
dotto-you do a fantastic job-thanks! just subscribed. I like how you have your face too, It makes it easier to follow, more human!
ShineOnEducation Thanks, nice to have you on board!
Thank you soooo much for making these videos. So very helpful.
2 features you didn't mention are the ability to recognize text in an uploaded image and also the speech to text feature on an Android tablet works in Google docs. The resulting document can be viewed and edited on the desktop version.
Good points +Dick Mundy Thanks!
Very interesting & helpful info. Thanks.
Thanks for the kind works Freddy!
Steve, another fantastic video - thanks for sharing !
Excellent videos! many thanks
Hi Steve, great demonstration of google drive... but the BIGGEST problem I have recently is that my "friends/collaborators" can not upload their files in MY googledrive (even when they have access to a folder)... They only can EDIT/VIEW a doc that I uploaded on MY drive... Hope this will be possible in the new googledrive apps... keep up the great videos.. love them...
excellent article. thank you for the tips.
You do a great job at this. Thank you.
Excellent as usual. Thank you! Love the Save to Google Drive tip. Cool!
Thanks Judith
Steve hi . looking good as always . just wanted to say that this one had particular benefit which I was totally unaware of, and would have been a great help the last 2 years. I have been working on a book, now No.! Amazon best seller, plus a website business, and coaching business. I do many many rewrites of IP and scripts and coaching material. I am always trying to find previous versions or decide which was the latest or not. Not being a techie expert like you, it is a minefield and massive time waster. Just tried the history thing, very very nice. I find google docs versus the rest of my laptop a nightmare anyway, too many choices of everything. Anyway, the revision history was gold for me, thanks . :)
Thanks a lot for nice sharing and i just Subscribed!
Excellent video. Subscribed. Cheers!
I don't seem to have the app search lab, how can I get that?
Hi Steve, Has gmail done away with the 'labs' tab under setting? I am using the new version of gmail and that tab is gone. I want to follow your advice on adjusting the search option you mention on here but can't because the 'app search' is missing as it is found under labs.' thanks for your help!
Yep, labs seem to be gonzo in the new version
Hi Steve how do you make your videos? the software to share the screen and record yourself?
Thanks
I use Screenflow,
Here is a link to a mini-course on how I do it.
dottotechu.thinkific.com/courses/publishing-online-video-in-less-time-than-a-blog
Bravo pour la presentation!
Thanks Dotto!, All this, and google drive is totally new to me. And you're making it easy to me to get into this, both neat and fast! :) Thanks!
Glad fro hear it Alexander Maxwell
thanks for all your info
Great video as always!
But you may have a small mistake in the title "6 Features than Make it Awesome"
Nice tutorial
Many thank's
Thanks Steve great review.
Thank you for the Info!
Thoroughly enjoy your videos and will become a subscriber.
+Bobbie Hennessy Welcome aboard
I really appreciate all the time and care you have spent with this review. It is very well made and thorough. What program you use to make the video with the screen capture and your picture?
+Annette Ingram I use Screenflow. I have a free recorded webinar on how I produce my videos, check it out.
www.dottotech.com/screencasting-sectrets-webinar-opt-in-page-2/
Awesome vids Steve! 2 years ago, I had made the choice to stick with dropbox but this vid just convinced me to try google drive again as a datastore since you mentioned that the gmail data usage isn't shared with google drive data usage. Of the features between the 2 products, I tend to look at the up/download sync speed so I'm excited to see how they compare now.
Regarding jonathans concern for losing data: I haven't had an issue with either products on data loss. But if I lost data online which then sync'd with my device, I'm assuming that would wipe the synced folder on my device. I'm not sure if this would happen but that would be terrible if it did.
1t0ns0up Yes, But I don't see that happening, let us know how the speed tests go!
Sir , I'm using google drive for the first time ,I want to know whether they take some specific charges ,but I only want to save my photos so I read the entire thing of t&c applied but still confused ,plzz help me sir
Hi Steve... I just started a Google Drive account and I believe I clicked a link to include Pictures... now my Google drive is full before even starting... over 15GB.... how do I change it so that I do not include my photos... If want to view photos, I would include them in a folder to view across different computers... also, random pictures keep popping up at the top of my google drive under "Quick Access"... how do I stop that or is it all tied in with the photos... please let me know.
That was great... Very interesting and educational. 👍
Edifying video.Thanks!
It's too bad that gmail labs got rid of aps search. That was a cool feature you suggested Steve.
Thanks for the video. It's helpful.
Thank you!
When using Google Drive I have the tendency to scan from a normal printer to my computer but I'm having trouble with the idea of having to place that document into two different places am I able to change the setting for my printer to automatically scan documents to Google Drive and if so how?
I am not sure, depending on the OS you could use a tool like Hazel
Anyone know if all, or any, of the features mentioned in this video are still current?
Hi Steve,
I notice that your Google setting layout is different from mine. May i know how do you
customize it?
Thanks!
Justin (Singapore)
Kindly advise how to use google drive in ipad version.
Where can i find the FIND & REPALCE features when i use it on ipad.
Does anyone know how to make entire folders available off line on I pad ? Do you have to do it file by file ?
One feature that doesnt make it awesome. When I upload images, movies to one account using drive I can also download the stuff I have uploaded. When switching to the other drive account I can upload but not download the files any more.
Any idea Why???
Ahh, I love revision history. Thank you for this video!
PeaceboneGotFound Saved my bacon a few times!
Great tips as usual 😍👍thank you 🌸
Steve I bought G Drive transitioning from OneDrive and I'm seeing that G Drive doesn't show the size of folder. This is insane, a basic function for storage. How do u deal with this? thnaks
Thanks, Steve! great information.
hmmm where do i find labs in settings? I want to add that extended search..
Also, can you advise me on, or do you have any videos, or know of other videos, that might show me how to make my own online cookbook or file, to organize, and store the recipes and other online information that I want to save for later reference, one day I'd might like to start a blog, but for now I just want to save them for myself and maybe share with a couple of friends. Thank You, I love your videos.
Question: If a friend shares a 2mb file with me from his Google Drive, does the 2mb file size also counted against my free space?
Dropbox does that, and I don't like it. Because it should just share access, not copying the file into my drive.
kekuleh1 No it does not, In Google Drive only the "Owner" of the document or folder is charged space for a docuemnt
I am trying to create a Google Document whereby I can share the document but have it so the text is not able to be copy pasted.
Possible?
Dayne Williams Sure, make sure the others can edit the document.
+Dayne Williams You could type up your text in an image program like Photoshop or take a screenshot of a Microsoft Word document, insert the image onto the Google Doc, and then set it as View Only to those you share it with. That way, the text will technically be an image, not text, and therefore not copy/paste-able, but still viewable.
+Christopher poo Transcend
+Dayne Williams copy and paste ms word then upload in google drive open that word file in google drive done :)
Apps Search - does this still exist. I can't find it.
I went under settings and then labs and do not have Apps Search! Can you tell me why?
Labs change over time, they are no longer in Gmail for example.
I can't figure out an easy way to insert a date stamp in google document (word processor) not spreadsheet...
Great tips for Google drive.
Thanks!
Steve, is there any way to NOT have all (sub) folders at the top of a GD folder. Drive obviously follows the PC convention. But on a Mac I have files and folders mixed according to importance. This is way better than being forced to have all folders at the top of the 'tree'. Can't see how to do this in Drive
what is the name of the software that floating all your menu icon on lower the monitor ???
Question: On my PC i have a google drive map in my windows explorer, and when i save my files there is auto-syncs with the google drive cloud itself. Does anyone know where this map is on my tablet using Windows RT 8.1? Or do i need the PRO version for 3.99 to have this map? Thanks in advance
Rick Bogaard Sorry Windows 8 is still something of a mystery to me.
random question, if my hard drive fails will that delete all my files saved in my Google drive folder, because what ever I do in the folder happens online?
I don't think so, but you should still be sing a proper backup.