Hey you and welcome! I'm Mr. Berry and in this whole video i want to talk about
being able to read sd cards with your chromebook now normally i would get an sd card put into my
chromebook and it works without any issues however one of my subscribers name of steve he's been
having an issue and he works at a place where it's very important that he's able to read his sd cards
so he would put in the sd card and it wouldn't read it won't recognize it at all so i'm going
to do is i'm going to take you through the steps of actually turning on or enabling full access
so that any of your apps will be able to see and use your sd card and before we get started
i would like to remind everyone to please click on that thumbs up share the video comment down below
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also some have noticed that i have uh dogs in the back so here we go ushi this is chad right here
here you go chad ushi where's ushi i bet she's hiding i want to see if she's hiding hey ushi
ushi
come on ushi hey yoshi ah there's ushi so let's let's give ushi a snack here
for being brave enough to show herself on the camera hey goshi and this is chad over here
now i have another one too but the other one there is in the other room right now
so these are wonderful pet dogs that i have there this is ushi and then this is chad
and they are adorable they are adorable alrighty so let's get
into the chromebook and show you exactly how to enable sd card support right there
hey here we are in my chromebook now what i'd like you to do is take your mouse and down in
the lower corner where you see that time go ahead and click in that lower corner and you notice that
it should pop up and you see more options notice that one of those options looks like a gear icon
if you take your mouse and float over there it will say settings so go ahead and click on
settings now and that will open up our settings window now below the settings we notice it says
the word device we're going to be affecting something in the device there so click on device
and now we see the device options like touchpad keyboard and on we go if you notice one of these
it says storage management so click on that and right away we see our internal storage
what's in use well we got about 60 gigs in use and about 68 gigs available my files are taking
about 20 gigs you got browsing data about a half a gig apps taking up about 12 gigs
and other users about another gig the system is taking about 27 gigs right now at the bottom
you'll notice it says external storage preferences that's the one that we need to to get into the
sd cards management there so let's click on there and here it says apps from google play may require
the full file system access to read and write files on external storage devices
files and folders created on the device are visible to anyone who uses
the external drive so if you've saved files onto your sd card or your external device there
you take it out and plug into another machine they should be visible all right available devices sd
card there it is this you want to make sure that it's that's off all right that prevents using it
and click it again and now it'll have a little bluish background and now it's enabled and on
it's that easy so there you go now you've enabled your sd card so that you would be able to
save files to it read files from it and all that now normally that's already turned on by default
but in the case of Steve I believe that one may have been turned off all right so let's turn .. * On SD cards with an older FAT, it may need to be formatted *
let's close this off and we're going to exit our settings i'm going to show you now actually using
the sd card so i'm going to flip to the other side and i'm going to click on the app launcher
and right there it says search for your tabs and files and apps so i'm going to type in the word
files and it comes up to that very first one first one that we see there is the files app
and it's a blue circle with a bluish or light blue folder in it boom you notice on my
shelf at the bottom i have it there so you can actually pin it to the shelf which is what i do
because i'm always using it but if not hey you can always find it this other way so let's go ahead
and just double click this and open up and see what we have and let me flip to the other side now
okay so here we're inside of the files app this is like the windows explorer of microsoft windows
and if you notice there we have recent and then we have my files downloads so downloads
is great if you download any files any work any um like documents boom they will be found there
someone was asking me the other day says can i use my chromebook to work with microsoft
office documents powerpoint uh spreadsheets and other things like that and i said yes
it'll work with your excel spreadsheets that work with
word documents as well as powerpoint presentations so it does all of those things for us
and those would be downloaded into the downloads folder now i do have another separate video on
actually working with microsoft word documents with microsoft word on a chromebook in that video
i'll have that up there as a link so later you can actually click on there and see that other
video on where this app this microsoft office app is if you don't want to do that we do also
have google docs google sheets and google slides right there built into your chromebook those will
open edit and save microsoft word documents as a microsoft word document so you'll be able to
share it with your friends and they would see it exactly the way you see it on your screen
and there's actually more tools now in google docs than microsoft word ever had
so that's something to think about next we have play files and then we have the google drive and
then we have the sd card so there it is when we enabled the view there it should appear
there and you can double click there and then copy and paste files there or work with them
whatever you need to do there so we've done that now let's just say that your machine is having
a really difficult time in doing anything it's it's not like allowing you to log in it's not
allowing you to do work like let's say that you were connected to a printer and suddenly it
doesn't see the printer you go i've been working with this every day and today it doesn't see the
printer well i actually have videos on you know setting up your chromebook with your printer but
let's just say that had already been done you go why is it not recognizing my printer today
the number one reason would be if either your chromebook or the printer is now on a different ss
id that is a network name most uh routers have multiple ssids three to four or even more and what
happens is sometimes we open up the chromebook and for some reason it will go to a different ssid
i've seen that it's rare but it happens when that happens if you have your printer on ssid
number one and your printer goes to number two guess what you're not printing that day
so you want to make sure that both devices your printer and your chromebook are on the same ssid
but let's say that you're having other issues like you're not being able to log in
or your computer's just having giving you general headaches do a power wash and you
say mr berry i don't want to do a power wash it's it seems rather um you know
a severe thing the the reality is it only takes seconds and then you're back up and running in
seconds it's actually that quick you simply go to your settings type in power power wash and boom
it will then do a power wash i do have a separate video on that though in case you're a little bit
worried about it and that one will be above me there so that'll be a link to the power wash video
again that only takes seconds to do and then you log into your machine after it does the power wash
it'll reset all your settings and your apps and all that you don't lose your data which is nice so
your data that's in your google drive or on your external devices it's still there and that's why
i do it quite often if my machine is even slow if it's a little bit sluggish i will do a power wash
and then simply re-log in and all my stuff it will be there on my sd card hey that was easy huh just
basically getting into your settings and finding the storage management management settings there
and i would like to remind everyone please subscribe and if you have a question or if
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there below the video and what i'm going to do is i'm going to share something with you
and also some music that has been shared with me that's really been helping me uh just let you know
you know i have autism and so um living out in the world is very very stressful
uh yes i've been a teacher for over 20 years and everything and every day
there has been extremely stressful making the videos stressful but
but due to uh your tremendous support out there it has really uh helped me quite a quite a bit there
and uh what we're going to do is i'm going to share you a song that's been shared with me that
really helps me really focus and kind of opens up my mind to uh to think because that's one of
my problems there is um a lot of times if i'm out about um it's just it's hard for me to think and
to understand what's going on around me so that song there i'll have the name of it and who who
donated or who created that song i have those two things there up there in text form for you
all righty i appreciate every one of you there and thank you very much bye-bye.