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hey guys this is Austin and today me the video going over Google Drive so this is all about is it's kind of like a mix between Google Docs and Dropbox so when you're first set everything up it'll automatically bring in all your Google Docs and no worries there everything works just as you would expect over the major difference is that you can now sync all kinds of files and folders across your different devices so this setup you just need to grab the app so on Android all you need to do is just get it from the Google Play Store and on OS 10 or Windows you can just as soon as you go to drive Google calm when you first set everything up there'll be a button where you can go ahead and download a little application and once you get everything set up it's very similar to Dropbox so you get a new folder on your device so it's going to be called of course Google Drive and everything inside here is automatically synced across all your different devices and of course your Google Drive account when you first set it up it will download all the files from your Google Drive account into the folder now of course you can kind of change it in the settings and you know if you want to only sync certain files or folders you can do that but by default it will just grab everything and of course it will include all your google docs so for example I can access any of these offline if I like but it's not limited to that you can pretty much upload any kind of file format you like so here's an mp3 but again there's no real restrictions as far as that goes but the real cool thing is is of course it will keep everything synced so go ahead just grab an image here and drag it in to my Google Drive account you know see there's a little syncing thing on the bottom left here and I will go ahead and upload it to my Google Drive account this is done right where it is right now let's go ahead and switch back over and take a look so let's just search for it so ran and ban it already has shown up so BAM so you guys can see you're just that fast we took a picture that was on this computer and brought it into the Google Drive account and as soon as we've done that we can do pretty much anything else we want so we can go ahead and sync it to another perhaps I may be an Android phone a tablet a Mac PC pretty much anything you want to do once you have a file upload to Google Drive you have a few different options as far as sharing goes so all you do is go ahead click on the little check mark and hit on this button here and now you have a sharing menu so by default it's only accessible to you but if you'd like you can add other Gmail users or if you want to go ahead and just change the whole privacy settings overall you can go ahead and make it totally public so anyone with the link can grab it or you can do just anyone with a link so kind of make it unlisted you can also search your files into folders so what you do is you create a new one so for let's just say video and then you can drag-and-drop whatever you like so let's just grab this drag into the video folder and bain't we're all good to go so it just kind of helps you if you want to sync specific folders you just kind of keep everything a little bit more organized on top of that you can also sort so for example you can do it by quota used now typically Google Docs do not take up any of your storage space however you upload anything so for example music pictures video pretty much anything that you upload will take up some of your storage Google Drive comes with five gigabytes of free storage however you can expand that up to twenty-five gigabytes for two dollars and fifty cents a month and 100 gigabytes for five dollars a month so it's a little bit more expensive that it used to be however it's not half bad especially considering that you can go ahead and expand it all the way out to 16 terabytes if you guys are interested in trying out Google Drive for yourself I will link in the description it's simply Drive Google com so overall I like it a lot I think it's not all that different from Dropbox but doesn't really need to be Dropbox is great and having everything synced into your Google account is gonna be really nice for a lot of people anyway guys if you enjoyed this video definitely be sure to leave it a thumbs up and if you're interested in more videos like this be sure to subscribe