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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
                                                                                                    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 icon.
















                                                                                         2  Click on the Google
                                                                                         Drive icon.





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