This is a getting started video for Google Drive. In this video,
I will show you how to create a Google account and how to access
your Google Drive and other Google applications. And then we
will have a quick tour of user interface of Google Drive, and
what are the functions available. So the first thing to
access any of the Google products, you need to have a
Google account. And the best way to get a Google account is by
creating a Gmail account. Gmail is one of the most used product
of Google. So to create a Google account, you type
support.google.com in your browser, and you will see this
screen on this screen, click on Gmail and then create a Gmail
account, create an account again, click here.
And then you have to fill the details and your Gmail address
of your choice which you want to get. For example, I might like
to get my name here. So I will type Tahir yaqub@gmail.com. And
then you have to put your password twice. And then you
click Next. If this email is not available, it will show you a
message and it will show you a few options here, you either
select any of those available options are you try again. So
you try your second choice, and then click Next. So in this way
you can do until you get your Gmail address of choice. And
once you get the address, then you have to log in by using that
address and the password which you have selected at this stage.
And now I assume that you have created your Google account. And
now you have access to Google products. So Google offers two
types of products. One are the free products and the other are
business products. So all this course, I will be using the free
gmail account. So you don't have to pay any of these plans to get
access to your Google Drive. Google Drive is completely free.
With every gmail account, which is also free, you get 15 GB of
free cloud storage on Google computers, which is called
Google Drive. But if you are a business, then there is another
product line, which is called G Suite. And these are the rates
for different G Suite products. Now once you have created a
Google account, you will get a default avatar something like
this, any alphabet, the first alphabet of your name or any
other alphabet you might get. So this is your avatar, you can
change this to your picture or image. But once you logged in,
you will see your avatar on the right hand side. And if you
hover over that you will see your email address associated
with the this Avatar and your name. So this email address I
have created recently for my upcoming course there are a
couple of ways you can access Google Drive once you logged in.
The first way is click on these nine dots and then click on
Google Drive. And now my screen will reload. And now I will see
the root of my Google Drive. On this screen, you can have two
types of views and these views types can be selected from here.
Currently, I am in the grid view. And if I want a list view,
I can click on that icon and it will show my Google Drive in
list format. Now all files are like this with some details on
the of the PI's when this file was last modified and what is
the size of the file. So all details are displayed. So let's
go back to grid view. Again. This view has three different
sections. The first section is quick xx section, where all the
files are located, which I have recently accessed. The second
section is a folder section, I have currently only two folders.
And then there is a file section in which all the files are
located. If I want to upload a file from computer, I click on
this little triangle, I click on Upload Files. It will show me
this dialog box. And here I can upload any file from my computer
if I want to at this time I just cancel this, I can also upload a
folder. From here, I can also create a new folder. And that
folder will be in this location here at my at the root of my
Google Drive. From this dialog box. I can also access Google
application Google Docs, which is similar to Microsoft Word
then Google Sheet which you can say they're similar to Microsoft
Excel, or Google Slides, which is somewhat similar to
PowerPoint. We also have some more applications and two of
them are very commonly used Google Forms and Google drawings
all of these applications require a separate course they
are such a detailed applications. But I will put one
video for every application in this Google Drive course as
well. And if you want I also have a Google Docs course, which
is 31 lectures and one and a half hour of video contents. I
will put a link in In the description from time to time, I
offer free coupons. The other way to access Google application
and to create a new document is by clicking on new. So if I
click New, and now if I click on Google Docs, a new Google
document will be created. So just click on this, I just want
to show you how this looks. So this is Google document, you
should understand that Google document Google Sheets, all
these are associated with your Google Drive. So in this Google
Drive course, we will be using Google Docs occasionally, to
make some ideas clear, and to make some functions of Google
Drive more clear to you. So Google Docs and Google drives,
they are associated and they work hand in hand. So this is an
important point to note. Currently, I just closed this,
you don't have to save any of your Google documents. Because
all your Google documents are automatically saved your sheets
and your slides are also automatically saved on your
Google Drive, there is actually no Save button. Now there are a
few more things, let's say I click on this file. And now this
is the preview of the file. And if I go back once again. So
first, let's start with this navigation menu. This is
navigation menu. And on this menu, this was your drive, then
we have shared with me, if you click on that, if anyone else
has shared anything with you any file or folder that will appear
in this location, then recent, I have already explained these are
the recent files, then start start means if you have starred
any of your files, if you can store your files q star just for
general importance purpose, something like that, you can
also do that, and those start files will appear here. No, if
you delete any file, that file will come to trash folder. And
this is just like recycle bin folder, you can restore from
your trash folder back to the folder from where you deleted.
So if I click on trash folder, these are the files which I have
recently deleted. If I want to restore any of these files back
to my original location, I just click on the file. And then
there is this little arrow around arrow which says restore
from trash. If I click here, this file will go back from
where it was deleted. So this is how you recover the deleted
files. And I will show you how to delete a file in a minute
then backups, where you can create backups of your Android
devices, like Android phone, or Android tablet, you can create
backups here and I will show you in this course, you can see the
storage how much you have used out of your 15 gb and make sure
that you don't keep any of the unwanted emails and their
attachments. Because all those will count towards your storage.
The only thing which does not count against your free storage
are your Google documents, or Google sheets or Google Slides,
all these things will not be counted against your free
storage of 15 gb and 15 gb is a lot of storage if you use
wisely. And if you want to buy you can upgrade storage. I have
recently bought 100 gb for one of my accounts and that cost me
25 Australian dollars per year 400 gb, so you can upgrade to
there are various tiers available for you. So let's go
back to my drive. If I select a file by clicking once on that
file, a context menu will appear here this is the file context
menu means that this menu will only appear if you have selected
a file. Now there are a couple of options here. So most options
are in these three dots. If I click on these three dots, no, I
can move this file to any of the folders, any of other folders or
any other location I can add. to start if I click Add to start
one file added to start and if I know go to start and know the
start file appears here, let's go back to drive.
Now let's talk about some other options, you can rename the
file. And the best thing about Google Drive is that you can
store many versions of your files. And you can go back to
any of the previous versions. And this is you do in this area.
And we will talk about this. You can make a copy of this. You can
report and abuse or you can download to your computer. No
Come back to the next option. This is the Remove option. You
can remove any file or delete any file and the file will go to
the trash folder. Then this is the preview. If I click on that,
I will see the preview of that file. It's an image so I can see
the image in a large preview manner. So now let us click on
any of these documents. And let's say I want to share this
document to someone then I will click on This share option, and
no, I have this link available. This is the link which I can
share to anyone, I can just click on this and copy this link
and send via email to someone, or I can directly put the email
address of that person here. So if I click on this triangle, I
can see that I have three level of access, the lowest level is
only view access, I can give access to view the document,
then I can give access to comment on this document, or I
can give full access to edit the document. So I select the level
of access, I type the email of that person, I click Done. And
an email will be sent to that person if you have given someone
access and you want to remove the access. And we will talk
this in the Advanced Options later on in this course, on the
right hand side, you have options to access Google
Calendar, Google Keep or Google tasks. So these are other
applications, which you can access from your Google Drive.
By clicking on this gear or setting icon. You can manage
your notifications and applications. So if I click on
this setting, and then settings again, then I have the ability
to manage my notifications or my Google applications. So this we
will discuss later or in detail. So this was a brief tour of the
user interface of Google Drive. And now I will discuss all these
features in detail in my next videos.