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If you found it, open and skip to 3 below. Or click the Finder desktop, click the Go menu at the top of the screen and choose Applications. Click the Spotlight (magnifying glass icon) and search for Google Drive. Google Drive may already be installed on your computer. It’s a white triangle inside a dark square. If it’s there, skip to Accessing Files below.

Look for Google Drive in your Mac’s top menu bar.

This saves a lot of space on your drive and almost eliminates sync errors. The files are not all copied to your computer but available on-demand, like a server. The Settings tab is also where you can upgrade your storage to another plan.With the Google Drive desktop app, the contents of your Google Drive appears on your Mac like a regular drive. Finally, you can configure Google Drive to automatically launch when you log in to your Mac, show file sync status, and display confirmation messages when removing shared items from Google Drive. Settings: Allows you to configure network settings if needed and control bandwidth, which is handy if you're using a slow connection or one that has data rate caps.You can reconnect by signing back into your Google account. Once disconnected, the files within your Mac's Google Drive folder remain on your Mac but are no longer synced with the online data in Google's cloud. Google Drive: Lets you disconnect the Google Drive folder for your Google account.The default is to have everything in the folder automatically synced, but if you prefer, you can specify only certain folders to be synced. My Mac: Allows you to specify which folders within the Google Drive folder are automatically synced to the cloud.The Google Drive Preferences window opens, displaying a three-tab interface.

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