{"id":9154,"date":"2019-09-23T08:59:12","date_gmt":"2019-09-23T08:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/?p=9154"},"modified":"2019-12-16T08:22:43","modified_gmt":"2019-12-16T08:22:43","slug":"upload-files-or-folders-to-google-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/upload-files-or-folders-to-google-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Ways: How to Upload Files or Folders to Google Drive?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google Drive is a file storage and synchronization service that allows us to store, synchronize, and share files and folders. If you have important files that you want to access anywhere and anytime you sign in, you can upload them to Google Drive. In this post, we will show you <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/how-to-upload-files-or-folders-to-google-drive\/\">how to upload files or folders to Google Drive<\/a><\/strong> in two simple but effective ways.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/How-to-upload-fles-and-folders-to-Google-Drive.png\" alt=\"How to upload files or folders to Google Drive\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"#way1\">Way 1: Upload files or folders via browser<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"#way2\">Way 2: Upload files or folders by Google Drive Sync<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 id=\"way1\">Way 1: Upload files or folders via browser<\/h2>\n<p>It might be the most straightforward way available to upload files or folders to Google Drive via browser.<\/p>\n<p>Step 1: First thing you need to do is to open up<a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\"> Google drive<\/a> window on the browser and then sign in Google Drive with your Google account.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/sign-in-Google-Drive-on-the-browser.png\" alt=\"sign in Google Drive on browser\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Step 2: Appoint a folder in Google drive to prepare to save files. Then select all the files or folders that you want to upload from your computer and drag them to the Google Drive window on the browser.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Drag-and-drop-the-files-and-folders-to-Google-Drive.png\" alt=\"Drag and drop the files or folders to Google Drive\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Step 3:\u00a0Wait for a while and the files or folders will be stored in your Google Drive.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/The-files-will-be-uploaded-to-Google-Drive.png\" alt=\"the files will be stored in google drive\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Note<\/strong>: In this way, you can upload multiple files and folders to Google Drive simultaneously. In additional, you can also use the \u201cNew\u201d button to add files or folders. However, only multiple files or a folder can be uploaded at one time in this way.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Use-new-button-to-upload-files-or-folder-to-google-drive.png\" alt=\"Use new button to upload files or folder\" \/><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"way2\">Way 2: Upload files or folders by Google Drive Sync.<\/h2>\n<p>Although the above method is so simple and convenient, it will be a massive hassle if you need to upload a large number of folders in different locations simultaneously. Don\u2019t worry! There is an another way to make it easy to upload numerous files or folders in different locations to Google Drive. Google offers an application called\u00a0<em>Backup and Sync<\/em>\u00a0that allows you to upload any file or folder to Google Drive.<\/p>\n<p>Step 1:\u00a0Firstly, you need to download and install the application of Google Drive and sign in with your Google account. Follow the installation process, and you will see an icon of <em>Backup and Sync<\/em>\u00a0in the bottom right corner of taskbar at last.<\/p>\n<p>Step 2: Click the Google Drive icon on the right of the taskbar and then click \u201c<strong>\u22ee<\/strong>\u201d in the top right corner of the window. Click <strong>Preferences<\/strong>\u00a0to open a Preferences-Backup and Sync window.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Open-Google-back-and-sync-prefrence.png\" alt=\"Open Google Drive preferences\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Step 3: Click <strong>CHOOSE FOLDER<\/strong> and choose the folder that you want to upload.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Choose-the-folders-in-file-explorer.png\" alt=\"Choose the folders you want to upload\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Step 4: Repeat Step 3 to select all the folders.<\/p>\n<p>Step 5: Check the boxes and Click <strong>OK<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Check-the-box-right-to-the-floders-you-want-to-upload.png\" alt=\"Check the box and upload the folders\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Step 6: Wait for a minute and all the folders will be upload to Google Drive.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Upload-folders-to-Backup-and-Sync.png\" alt=\"Upload folders by Google Drive\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Attentions<\/strong>: The application of Google Drive allows you to create a Google drive-linked folder on your computer. So that you can upload files or folders by copying and pasting or dragging and dropping.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Related Articles:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/share-file-folder-on-onedrive-windows-10\/\">How to Share A File or Folder on OneDrive in Windows 10<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/how-to-clear-network-share-folder-password-in-windows-8\/\">How to Clear Network Share Folder Password in Windows 8<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/repartition-a-hard-drive-without-losing-data\/\">How to Repartition A Hard Drive Without Losing Data<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google Drive is a file storage and synchronization service that allows us to store, synchronize, and share files&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9071,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[331,214],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cloud-drive","category-computer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9154"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21733,"href":"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9154\/revisions\/21733"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}