Back up your Google Drive |
There are two ways to back up your Google Drive data to your computer. You can download files or folders to your computer, flash drive, or external hard drive. Or you can use the Google Takeout app. We will give instructions for both.
DOWNLOAD YOUR GOOGLE DRIVE FOLDERS Open a browser on your computer and log in to https://drive.google.com. Select a folder (single click on it). In this example, we selected the folder named Math. Open the File folder manager on your computer and create a new folder to store the data in. In this case, we created a folder named Backup. Right click on the Google Drive folder and select Download.
Once the files are extracted, it will look something like this. Note that our folder Backup now has a subfolder Math that has the files from the Drive folder in it. Note that if the files are Google format, when you click to open one, it will open a browser with the corresponding Google App. If it's a MS Office file, video, picture, .pdf, etc. it will open in the computer application associated with that file type.
You can do this same process with any folders in your Google Drive - one at a time.
USING GOOGLE TAKEOUT TO BACK UP GOOGLE DRIVE DATA The second way to do this is with Google Takeout. Takeout will let you back up anything stored in your Google Apps - and this list is pretty long. Here we will download the data from Google Drive only. Go to https://takeout.google.com. It will ask which data to include. It may default to selecting all items, but you can deselect individual items or all items and then reselect the ones you want to back up. Click on Next step. In this example we will select only Google Drive data. It will ask about Type, Frequency, and Destination. Under Destination you have the choice to transfer to a link via email, Add to Google Drive, Add to a Dropbox account, or Add to a Box account. Make your selections and click on Create export. Next you will see the export progress screen. This may take a while depending on the amount of data and your Internet speed.
Click on Download to download each individual file.
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Posted by: Laurie Sherrod - July 2, 2021. |
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