{"id":10422,"date":"2015-12-05T19:51:54","date_gmt":"2015-12-06T00:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=10422"},"modified":"2015-12-05T19:51:54","modified_gmt":"2015-12-06T00:51:54","slug":"backup-your-google-drive-on-your-computer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/backup-your-google-drive-on-your-computer\/","title":{"rendered":"Backup Your Google Drive on Your Computer"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong>Backup Your Google Drive on Your Computer<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Many of you use Gmail and if you use Gmail you probably use Google Drive. In fact you can use Google Drive (Google Docs) instead of installing an Office program \u2013 Google Drive can open and create most Microsoft Office type files. You can also use Google Drive to store files from your computer.<\/p>\n<p>If you already use Google Drive you may have quite a few files and folders on it \u2013 and while Google has your files and folders backed up every way from Sunday in data centers around the world, you still might feel more comfortable having those files and folders right there on your own hard drive. It\u2019s easy to do.<\/p>\n<p>1. Open Google Drive and select the files and folders you want to download. To select multiple folders and files, hold down the CTRL key while clicking on the files and folders you want to back up. See screenshot below:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2015\/backup-drive.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>2. Right-click on any of the highlighted files (shown above highlighted in blue) and then select \u201cDownload\u201d from the right-click menu which appears. See screenshot below:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2015\/backup-drive1.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>3. As soon as you click \u201cDownload\u201d (see above) you\u2019ll see that Google Drive will show a \u201cZipping Files\u201d dialog. Gouge Drive will zip up all the files and folders you selected and download them to your computer.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2015\/backup-drive2.png\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n4. After Google Drive has finished zipping your files it will automatically download the Zipped file containing all the files and folders you selected in step 1 above:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2015\/backup-drive3.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>5. Look at the screen shot above and there\u2019s the zip file on my computer. You can rename it to anything you want after it has downloaded.<\/p>\n<p>6. Opening the zip file, I see all the files and folders I selected from Google Drive (see below). And now I have a copy of everything on Google Drive on my computer.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2015\/backup-drive4.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s all there is to it. Now if you like you can go forth and backup your Google Drive. It\u2019s easy.<em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Backup Your Google Drive on Your Computer Many of you use Gmail and if you use Gmail you probably use Google Drive. In fact you can use Google Drive (Google Docs) instead of installing an Office program \u2013 Google Drive can open and create most Microsoft Office type files. You can also use Google Drive to store files\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/backup-your-google-drive-on-your-computer\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10422"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10422"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10423,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10422\/revisions\/10423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}