{"id":25083,"date":"2025-03-27T13:15:21","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T17:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/information-technology\/?page_id=25083"},"modified":"2025-03-27T13:15:21","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T17:15:21","slug":"google-drive-for-windows","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/information-technology\/google-drive-for-windows\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Drive (for Windows)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Get started with Google Drive<\/h2>\n<p>Your account, <strong>[your-netid]@montclair.edu<\/strong>, is an Education account, managed by an administrator. Google Workspace storage is shared among Drive, Gmail, and Photos. Your storage limit depends on your Workspace edition. <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/drive\/answer\/6374270#storage_upload_limits\" target=\"_blank\">Learn about Google storage and upload limits<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Step 1: Go to Google Drive<\/h3>\n<p>In your browser, go to <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">drive.google.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Tip: You can choose between Home and My Drive as your Google Drive start page. To change your start page, go to <strong>Settings<\/strong>. Then select your preference<\/p>\n<h3>Step 2: Upload or create files<\/h3>\n<p>You can upload files from your computer or create files in Google Drive.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/drive\/answer\/2424368\" target=\"_blank\">Upload files and folders to Google Drive<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/docs\/answer\/6055139\" target=\"_blank\">Work with Office files<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/docs\/topic\/1361461\" target=\"_blank\">Create, edit, and format Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Step 3: Share and organize files<\/h3>\n<p>You can share files or folders, so other people can access, edit, or comment on them.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/drive\/answer\/2494822\" target=\"_blank\">Share files from Google Drive<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/drive\/answer\/7166529\" target=\"_blank\">Share folders from Google Drive<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/drive\/answer\/2494892\" target=\"_blank\">Make someone else the owner of a file<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To find files that other people have shared with you, <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/drive\/shared-with-me\" target=\"_blank\">go to the &#8220;Shared with me&#8221; section<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Using Google Drive to Back Up and Sync Your Files<\/h3>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/drive\/answer\/2374987\" target=\"_blank\">Learn how to back up and sync files from your Mac or PC<\/a> to Google Drive.<\/p>\n<h2>Sign out of Google Drive<\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">Go to <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">drive.google.com<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">At the top right, select your Profile picture.\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">If a photo doesn\u2019t appear, you may find the Account image .<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">Select Sign out.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Get started with Google Drive Your account, [your-netid]@montclair.edu, is an Education account, managed by an administrator. 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