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You can access your Google Drive files or documents from your smartphone, tablet, or computer.
In simple terms, Google Drive provides you a cloud storage space on Google servers that allows you
to store your media files and documents and access them with any device with an active Internet
connection.
Encryption is the process of encoding a message or file so that it can only be
accessed by authorized people. This keeps your data safe.
What can you store in Google Drive?
Google Drive can store all types of files such as photos, videos, PDFs, Microsoft
Office files and many more. You can also save email attachments sent to you
through Gmail directly to the Google Drive. You do not have to move them
manually. Google drive also has the option to see the preview of the attachment
files without downloading them in browser itself. You can easily preview
Microsoft documents, Adobe files, image files, audio files and video files before Files on Google Drive
downloading.
How much can you store in Google Drive?
Google gives you 15 GB of free cloud storage just when you sign up for the first time. You can
upgrade it to more space if needed by paying some amount. This free space is shared between your
mails, photos, data on your drive, etc. on all your Google apps. You should never sync your hard
disk data to Google drive. That way you are unnecessarily keeping two copies of all your files and
using precious space. You should make sure that your Inbox and Google Drive are not cluttered with
unnecessary files. You will soon run out of the cloud space that you have free of cost.
Using Google Drive
Perform the following steps to use the Google Drive:
1 Login to your Gmail account
and click on Google apps button.
2 Click on the
Drive icon.
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