Google Drive Tutorial - Creating and Uploading Files and Folders

hi there I'm Jamie ke and welcome to my video on using Google drive today uh we're going to be taking a look at in this video creating and adding files to your Google Drive uh may take a look at the top right hand uh corner and use my cards to jump to other videos um about the same topic of Google Drive if you like what you see please subscribe to my channel so you get notified when my new videos come out so I'm already logged into my account right now you can see by my profile picture up in the top right hand corner and I just need to get to my

Google Drive so I'm just going to click on my nine little squares up here that show my apps and I'm going to select Google Drive so when I um come over to my Google Drive you can see um I have some things already in it um that I kept saved here um I'm just going to jump in right away and show you how to

create uh new folders and files uh in it so there's a few different ways you can

create new files uh we can hit our new button over here uh you can see we have our Google Docs and sheets and slides or even more if we go through and I can connect to more apps just like at the web store um but I can also select up here um I get the same different uh menu type and if I right click I also get it too so I tend probably to use the right click a little bit more than anything else but it doesn't really matter uh which way whatever way works uh best for you so um right now I can you can U see I'm in my main part U I have uh what's highlighted over here you can see all my um folders uh come up here and I can navigate at uh through my different folders and jump through uh different ones like that or I can actually uh use my breadcrumbs up here to jump back uh to different folders so there's a few different ways you can navigate around uh your Google Drive so if I go and create a uh fold or sorry a file in here

right now I'm just going to create a Google doc here and just open it up here and I'm just going to call this uh I'll just call this test and you can see it's saving up it shouldn't take very long and there it's saved and if I exit out I have this brand new file here called test um it was created in this part of my Google Drive because that's where I was located when I created it so um let's make a and same thing if I make a

uh folder so you just go and hit the top one where it says the plus folder and I'll just call this um uh example here and I'll hit create and then you see the example folder that gets created in here um so if I go into my example folder and create a document in there uh you'll see I'll just call this test two here and I'll exit out of here once I see it saved and then uh it should pop open there it is inside U my example folder so just remember when you're creating uh if you want to uh so you don't have to move it later uh just go to the folder where you want it to be created um and then um then it will appear there so I'm just going to go back to uh my drive here again so we've created our folder and we've created a um example of a file remember we have our different types of files that we can create and the same um same thing applies make sure in the folder where you want it to be created uh so the other thing to get folders and files up here are to um upload them from your computer and to do that we just go to uh new and you can see I have file upload here or I have folder upload so if I was picking a file I'm just going to go it opens up I'm grab something from my desktop here and I'm just going to grab this image five here it's a JPEG uh but it wouldn't matter what type of file it is I would just grab it and you can see um that uh it gets uploaded here uh to my Google Drive now if you had a lot of things uh to upload I probably would want to grab the one at a time like that uh what you could do is have them in a folder and I'm going to guess if you're kind of switching over from a kind of a network position uh and using more cloudbase uh there's a lot of files you have to copy over and then so what you can do is go to your uh folder upload and you can just grab uh for instance I'll just grab this YouTube one that's about three Megs I think and hit upload and uh you can see it quickly gets uh upload here by my head and um it should appear it's a little hung up and there it is right up top here you can see um that it's up there and if I open it up uh the files and different things are in it uh there so that's how I could upload uh file and folder from my uh from my desk so the other thing I can do which I tend to use probably the most is

um I use the drag and drop features so um let me just move a couple things out of the way here so with the drag and drop say I have these report cards here um what I'm going to do is just drag across and it's the same thing as kind of a file um you know what we did before with a new file upload but I just find a little quicker to uh drag and drop things across and again I could put it into any these folders so those are just some basic tips about creating new folders and files and how to get some of your old stuff into your Google drive to start with so remember um if you like what you see please subscribe to my video and use the cards to uh jump to the next video that I have ready for you