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You shouldn’t have any problems installing this app on your PC. What If You Can’t Install Backup and Sync? Simply copy and paste the image or drag it to your desktop or a different folder. This method will essentially allow you to add all images from your Google Photos to your File Explorer. In addition, if you upload images to the PC folders that you’ve synced with your Google Drive, they’ll appear on the Google Photos app of your mobile device. All images that you upload to your Google Photos account from any device will also appear in this folder. Now you can manually access your Google Drive from the File Explorer.

Read the location of the folder next to the ‘Folder Location.’.

Toggle the ‘Sync My Drive to this computer’ under the ‘Google Drive’ section.

Select the ‘Google Drive’ window from the sidebar to the left.

Click ‘Preferences’ from the drop-down menu.

Select the ‘More’ (three vertical dots) icon at the top-right of the menu.

A small monitor window will appear in the corner. Click the Backup and Sync icon on the bottom-right of the taskbar.These two observations show me that my drive is working fine, and it is the chromebook file explorer that is having the issue.įor trouble shooting so far I have confirmed that chrome OS is up to date, settings allowing for offline viewing of the drive are checked, and i have uninstalled and re-installed my chrome extensions for drive. As for saving them, I can do this the more round about way of saving the files to my download folder then dragging and dropping them into the google drive site. I viewed the drive using the chrome browser and confirmed that all files are present and can be opened normally. This would seem to indicate that the file explorer is not syncing correctly with drive. Something I just found out while writing this if I move any files out of the initial drive screen into a subfolder using the web site, the files do not move location according to the file explorer version of drive. If I try to save a file from the internet to my drive, the file explorer will freeze for several seconds then give me an error that there is no space left in the drive (this is not true, I am using 3.3 of 15 gigs as of this post). If open any subfolders it shows the message "Nothing to see here".Īlso, I am unable to save files to the drive using the file explorer. When I open the drive I can view files stored within the initial screen, but I cannot view files located inside of any subfolders of the drive. In file explorer I can view my local storage, and my drive.

I recently purchased my Chromebook and am having a problem with google drive.