Mini Tutorial

How to Save a File in Google Drive
for Google Account Users


Google Drive is a cloud storage. A cloud storage can back up save
data, hold a duplicate version of a file, or provide a practical way to share
files. This is useful in both professional and personal settings.


Visit Google.com
You will be taken to Google's search engine homepage.













While on this page you will find, in the top right, 9 dots arranged into a square shape. Click the 9 dots so that a display menu drops down for you.














Notice the triangular icon with a hole in the middle. This is Google Drive's
icon. Click it. It will take you to the Google Drive.*














The Google Drive page will look similar to this on your screen. 
(If you are not already logged into your Google account, the Drive's main
page will not look like this. It will instead display a contents page. In that
case, clicking the white, "Go to Drive" button in the top right will prompt
you to sign in.)















To save a file, you can either click "New" or "My Drive". It doesn't matter
which you choose. They both will drop down options of uploading a file
from your device.


















If you want to upload a file to save, click "upload file". If you are uploading
several files or photos in a folder you want to instead click "upload folder".


















Your device's file window will pop up. Click the document or image file
you need saved and press "open". This will save your file to the cloud.
In this example, you might see that we are saving a file from our pictures
folder. 


















Notice Google Drive will confirm that 1 file has been uploaded and 
display the file name at the bottom right. This is helpful to know whether
you uploaded the intended file.

















You can also confirm visually as Drive will display an image of your file on
the main page.






*Alternatively, you can access Google's Drive page directly by typing
 Drive.Googe.com in the URL.