Google Drive Tutorial - Searching and Moving Files/Folders

hi there I'm Jamie Keat and welcome to my Google Drive video series today we're going to take a look at um how to search

for files and folders and how to uh move them around inside your Google Drive so uh using the menu at the top here our search drive here uh we can type in like our usual Google way uh something that we're looking for if I start typing something it will um you know fill it out and you can see if I was looking for that business letter PDF I click on it and voila it pops up so a different way

you can use your search menu though is if you use this little down arrow right here you have search options uh you can look for uh the type of file that you're looking for so if I select a Google Document and wanted a Google Document it that's what it gives me right there uh I'll just go back here and to all file types and I can you can also see um I have an OP with that does the same thing or ownership so it gives some criteria to sort through uh your uh Google Drive in order to find what you're looking for I'm just going to go back to my main drive here here's a interesting search uh parameter that I always find interesting within Google Drive you can see that there's a picture of the Eiffel Tower down here if I start typing Eiffel Tower here and hit enter it actually finds the picture now if you look I don't have this picture labeled as Eiffel Tower the search actually knows that's a picture of the Eiffel Tower I actually have the word Eiffel Tower inside this document so it it found uh the Eiffel Tower uh connection in here but I also find that uh it's interesting to see how powerful of a search and where we're going with the search options inside Google so now I'm going to go back to my drive and show you some ways to uh move your files

and folders around so uh one way if you created your folder file in the wrong place you can just drag them so I could take for instance this PDF file and just I'm holding down and clicking uh and moving it over so I could also rightclick on a folder or use my three little uh dots up above here and I can um uh and then I can also use my move to so in this way I can select the folder uh the same folder and hit move uh there so the other way I was talking

about um was using the uh vertical line up here and you can see you have the move to here so that's how you can move uh move things around you can also make a copy of anything so if I select it I can um uh go through and make a copy and it will duplicate it uh here so you actually have two separate instances of the file now a different way you can do it um where you can put them in different places in different folders uh is to create the same instance but stored in this in different places so how you do that is um so if I take this right here and if I um hold if I press shift and um Zed what you can see is it's add to so if I say I'm going to add that to example and hit add well it doesn't look like anything happened but if I go over to my example here you can see the image is in here also but the images are connected they're not two different it's not like a copy um these are actually the same instance being stored in two different places so I'll show you if I delete uh this picture here and then go back that picture was also gone so um there's a different way you can do this too so I'll just kind of repeat what I just did there if I had this Eiffel Tower I can select it and then I hit shift and then Zed and I get the add to the other way on my uh Mac keyboard if I hold down my option and then drag it you can see I get that little green arrow there and then I bring it and drag it up and it will actually do the same thing now this is a little glitch that I've discovered because I've tried it on PC and if I was doing it on PC I would hold my control uh down on Mac it's my option key but I have this glitch cuz this image for some reason stays um stays here and I the only way I've been able to get rid of it is just refresh and then if I go in you can see that the uh other that the same instance is here so remember if I delete this one it um it does uh delete this one so those are just uh some of the options uh for moving and copying and uh adding to uh the same instance into a different place inside Google Drive so remember if you like what you see please subscribe so you get contacted when my next video comes out