Backup Your Google Drive on Your Computer

Many of you use Gmail and if you use Gmail you probably use Google Drive. In fact you can use Google Drive (Google Docs) instead of installing an Office program – Google Drive can open and create most Microsoft Office type files. You can also use Google Drive to store files from your computer.

If you already use Google Drive you may have quite a few files and folders on it – and while Google has your files and folders backed up every way from Sunday in data centers around the world, you still might feel more comfortable having those files and folders right there on your own hard drive. It’s easy to do.

1. Open Google Drive and select the files and folders you want to download. To select multiple folders and files, hold down the CTRL key while clicking on the files and folders you want to back up. See screenshot below:

2. Right-click on any of the highlighted files (shown above highlighted in blue) and then select “Download” from the right-click menu which appears. See screenshot below:

3. As soon as you click “Download” (see above) you’ll see that Google Drive will show a “Zipping Files” dialog. Gouge Drive will zip up all the files and folders you selected and download them to your computer.

4. After Google Drive has finished zipping your files it will automatically download the Zipped file containing all the files and folders you selected in step 1 above:

5. Look at the screen shot above and there’s the zip file on my computer. You can rename it to anything you want after it has downloaded.

6. Opening the zip file, I see all the files and folders I selected from Google Drive (see below). And now I have a copy of everything on Google Drive on my computer.

That’s all there is to it. Now if you like you can go forth and backup your Google Drive. It’s easy.