Every day brings new choices they say, that’s true with respect to changing technology delivering new things every day. Cloud storage is one such platform where the options for users is plenty. Google Drive is one of the popular cloud storage service providers and this article will guide you on how to sync Google Drive to a computer or smartphone without causing any sync errors.
How to sync Google Drive to Desktop
To get started with using Google Drive download the Backup and Sync application onto your computer. Follow these steps to learn to sync Google Drive to a computer:
After choosing the right option that suits you, click on Start. That’s it you have successfully finished the setup. Your computer will automatically sync to Google Drive. It is a common practice to keep a backup of phone data on the computer. This is a good practice of taking a backup of your data but this good practice might create duplicates on your Google Drive. Duplicate files are the result of syncing the same files from both your computer and Phone. Imagine you have 3 to 5 gigabytes of duplicate content on Google Drive. Finding duplicate files is a time-consuming job and deleting duplicate files from Google Drive is another time-consuming process. To avoid duplicates on Google Drive, open your Backup and Sync app on your computer and deselect the folders containing the files copied from the phone.
How to Sync Google Drive to phone
With the exponential growth in the usage of smartphones, the amount of data that gets generated is enormous because of the features that the smartphone promises. It is normal for any smartphone to run out of space when it I capable of doing things that were only meant for computers. If a smartphone runs out of space, it directly affects the performance of the system. Hence cloud has become an easy choice to store all your data.
Steps to sync Google Drive to phone:
Most of Android phones will have the Google Drive app pre-installed or you can download it from the Playstore. If you are an iPhone user you can download the app from Appstore.
The uploaded files can be accessed by any device using your Google account. With 15 GB of free space, you can rely on this and make sure that your important photos, videos documents are safe.
Now that you know how to sync Google Drive to your computer and smartphone. When you sync a computer or smartphone with Google Drive you have to keep this point in mind to avoid creating duplicates. You have a choice to select folders that need to be synced with the computer, so do not select the folders that contain the files copied from your phone.