Comments on: 7 Tips & Tricks To Get The Most Out Of Google Drive

By: mundo

mundo — Sun, 28 Oct 2012 22:25:08 +0000

How can I copy entire folders from Google Drive to a Google Sites document folder?

By: Chris Hoffman

Chris Hoffman — Sun, 21 Oct 2012 20:02:55 +0000

I don’t think this is possible, sorry — Google would have to make it work properly.

By: Mohamed Rabie

Mohamed Rabie — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 08:55:05 +0000

Hey, can you help me with this please. I need to put google drive on my USB. any ideas?!!

By: Chris Hoffman

Chris Hoffman — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 00:53:02 +0000

Hi Wayne,

Unfortunately, you can’t really — if they can see the image, it’s already downloaded to their computer, so they can save it. If they have access to the file, they can download it.

Some services might offer features like “disable right click” that will prevent users from doing a right-click + copy, but that just makes the process more inconvenient — if the image is on their screen, they can even take a screenshot and grab it. So unfortunately, you can’t control this. The only way to really prevent it is to prevent people from viewing the file.

By: Chris Hoffman

Chris Hoffman — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 00:51:35 +0000

Works fine if you’re accessing it via a web browser, but using the desktop client you’d have to disconnect your account repeatedly. If you really want more free space, I’d just use multiple desktop clients (google drive, dropbox, skydrive, etc)

By: Chris Hoffman

Chris Hoffman — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 00:50:22 +0000

It looks like the CleanSave extension will do this: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/iplagehfoafmmjppeijnpkohihcllici

Never used it myself, though.

By: Wayne

Wayne — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 11:25:03 +0000

Hi Chris How does one prevent legitimate viewers from actually downloading the uploaded files and images from Google Drive to their computer?
The ”Prevent viewers from Downloading” available in the drop down menu does not prevent someone from right clicking on say an .jpg image and saving to their hard drive. I want people to be able to view the documents and photos but not to be able to grab a copy for themselves.
Hopefully you will know how to solve this problem for me and for others.
Thank you and kind regards
Wayne

By: Michael Bordach

Michael Bordach — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 09:56:41 +0000

@DrJ Drive doesn’t (yet) offer direct URL upload. For a workaround you may have a look at IFTTT. This service provides a ‘Google Drive Channel’ which supports an action ‘Upload Files from URL’.

By: tdhorlando

tdhorlando — Sat, 01 Sep 2012 13:50:19 +0000

Using Google Drive is essentially a no brainer – with a single Google account. But many people have more than one account (e.g. a personal account and one for work – and hundreds of other use cases). It would be nice to know how it works – or doesn’t work – when you frequently log in to and store documents on – multiple Google accounts.

By: Dr J Johnson

Dr J Johnson — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 09:37:03 +0000

I was trying to be concise, but here’s the bit I should probably have included in the question: ‘…without copying it to my HD, and then copying it again as an upload’.

In other words, a simple on-line — copy to —-> Google Drive. may be a single file, or web-page and associated folder(s).

I really cannot see how this can be done, but it would make Google Drive so much more useful, and efficient without ‘double-handling’ all the files/folders.

Thanks for your help so far, any ideas on how to copy without troubling my own Hard Drive?

By: Chris Hoffman

Chris Hoffman — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 21:44:22 +0000

You should be able to just save the page in your browser (either click the File menu in your browser and select Save As or right-click the page and Save As) and save it to the C:\Users\YOURNAME\Google Drive folder on your computer.

In general though, it’s better to save PDF copies — if you just save an HTML page, it may look different in the future. I recommend you use some sort of Print to PDF feature and save the resulting PDF to Google Drive.

For example, if your’e using Chrome, right-click the page, select Print, click the Change button in the Destination section and select Save to PDF. Save the PDF to the Google Drive folder I mentioned above.

If your browser doesn’t have built-in Save to PDF features, you may want to try a PDF printer. I’ve used CutePDF Writer (free) in the past: http://www.cutepdf.com/products/cutepdf/Writer.asp

By: Dr J Johnson

Dr J Johnson — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 17:24:43 +0000

Simple question: how do I transfer a file (eg: pdf or html page) from an on-line URL into Google Drive? This will mean copying the file(s)/folder(s) so I can still see them even if the original version is no longer available.

By: Dan

Dan — Sat, 07 Jul 2012 20:36:32 +0000

He didn’t say IE, he said Windows Explorer

By: Chris Hoffman

Chris Hoffman — Wed, 16 May 2012 00:21:31 +0000

Oh wow, that is a very interesting trick. I’ll have to try it out sometime. Thanks!

By: Nelsyv

Nelsyv — Tue, 15 May 2012 22:17:46 +0000

You can make google drive portable if you use winRAR. Make an SFX archive that saves registry temp folder in same folder and put in the googledrivesync.exe and googledrivesync64.dll from your Programfiles(x86)\Google\Drive. A bit confusing, but you should be able to figure it out.