Back, Back, Back It Up!

1. Login to Google Drive (desktop app). Notice, you now have easy access to all of the information you backed up from your computer in Part 1. Consider that anything you save in Drive is backed up to the cloud, but anything you save on your computer could be lost if the computer fails or is lost. You may not want to copy all of your files back to the computer.

2. After pondering step 1, select the folders or files you want to copy to your computer in Google Drive. Multiple select (hold Ctrl key while selecting) the files you want to put back on your computer. Right-click and select Copy.

Note: If you are trying to save by accessing Google Drive through the Chrome or any other browser, you will first need to download your files from Google. Then, go to the Downloads folder on your computer then right-click and select Copy.

3. Now, click on This PC, then click on Windows 10 (C:). Click on Users, find your username (ex. AHarris1) and find the location where you want to save the files.

4. Right click off to the side (so that you are clicking on blank space and not a file). Select Paste.

5. If you are copying a folder of the same name, you may see a prompt will come up stating you “already have a folder with the same name. You may replace the files with the same names.” It asks do you still want to merge this folder. Select Yes.