In an effort to save space on your hard drive, if it's as small as mine,
you'll want to move all your files and programs over to your second large drive, if you do have one,
rather than purchasing a new c drive. In this tutorial I'll show you how to
change the default storage location of your google drive sync folder. So stick around.
So you've probably already seen my other videos that show you how to move your programs and files
to your other large drive and that may not be enough. Many people forget that Google Drive
sync, including some other online storage folders, will keep a local sync copy on your computer.
They think that it's freeing up space on their C drive, but really it's synchronizing a local copy so that
you can work with it and it just syncs it back and forth to the cloud. There are really three options
that you have in this case. The first one is cloning your C drive to a larger C drive. You might
want to do that if you just don't have another drive or you don't have the capacity to put that
into your computer or you just rather have one single drive with everything on it. The second
option is moving the actual storage location from the C drive to your D drive or whatever the drive
letter is for your second larger drive. The third option is not synchronizing at all. So simply do
not install the Google Drive sync app or if it's Microsoft OneDrive or Apple's drive or whatever
online storage that synchronizes to your computer, because that's what they all do. It is convenient
to have that option, but it is an option. Just don't install the app, it'll be completely in the cloud
and that way it's guaranteed to free up space on your computer and what's in the cloud is only in
the cloud and not on your computer. So assuming you're going with option number 2. I'm going
to show you how to do that. So there's an icon down in the system tray by your time for Google Drive.
We would just right click on that, go up to the cog wheel in the top right corner and to preferences;
and you've got some information here about launching it at startup and there's local cache
files directory. You'll see here it's defaulting to this C drive. Now don't get confused. There's a
default drive letter. That's just the drive letter on your computer that it uses to synchronize with.
So it's not stored on a G drive on your computer, it just shows up as G drive but that points to
this location here. So this is currently in the C drive and we want to change that to our second drive.
We want to change this. We'll click on change and we can then browse through your computer
to the second drive and navigate through to the folder that we want. So I recreated the folder
structure and I've already got something else in that one folder for Google. So I want to put in
a new folder with the same name, DriveFS. So that's what it was previously and I can open that
and select the folder. So it now shows the D drive users and that location. It doesn't have to be that
exact same path using the different drive letter. You can literally just say D:\
GoogleDrive or my drive or online or whatever you want to call it really doesn't matter what you
call it. It's just the location of where it's going to put that. So once you have your new location
in there, simply hit ok and it's going to say that it needs to restart the Google Drive. So we'll hit
restart. It restarts the program. You'll see that it's changing the cache location and depending
on how much storage space you have there it may take a different amount of time, but mine happened
pretty quick because I've got a fast drive and not a lot of storage in there at the moment;
and that's all there is to moving your Google Drive folder from your C drive to your secondary drive.
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...whatever the folder is that you're going to be synchronizing with
It's not a folder.
Let's try that again.
what are we assuming here? Which one is it?
okay. How you doing there?
So down by your computer...
oh my God! Down by your computer...
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you know what, let's try this again.
that's all there is to moving your Google Drive, sync, folder...