 Hello everyone this is Amit Dan of amitdan.com Today I will have another episode of Chromebook tips and tricks video and I'll talk about how to save Chromebook files directly to Google Drive instead of saving on Chromebooks local drive. Chromebooks have limited storage so you don't want to save everything on your Chromebook which is going to fill up its storage capability. So the option you have that you can save everything to Google cloud drive and in the past it is to be very easy but Google changed some settings so I have to show you you know how to change the setting now. So if you search online how to save Chromebook files to Google Drive then you're going to see that you know my old video about this is number one hit and this video the procedure I mentioned in this video is no longer valid because due to the recent updates Google have gone through so today I'm going to just you know show you the same thing and I'll show you how to do it you know after the updates because the process or procedures I mentioned in this video doesn't will not work anymore so on this channel I do Chromebook videos and lots of other videos my Chromebook videos are very popular and I do not provide any affiliated links or anything I do not believe in that you know making money off you by clicking or buying products from my affiliated link but for those who still like to support me I'm going to you know place a link in the description box below how you can support me and which will take you to my website amitdan.com and you can just you know go from there so if you'd like to save your local save your files or everything to Google cloud instead of you know your Chromebook then the process I mentioned which is right here so I'm going to just you know show you a step by step so basically the first thing you're going to be doing is that you have to go to Google Drive and then you're going to create a folder and then you have to open up Chrome browser then you have to change the settings from there so let me show you what I mean so for example if you go to settings for your Google or for your Chromebook then in the past all the settings were actually available here so in the past there was a you know download folders right here and you can do everything right from here you didn't have to you know go through all these but now it's not going to work that way so the first thing you're going to do you go to drive.google.com which I have it right here so let's type it in so now this is taking you to your Google Drive and you're going to create a folder which will have or which will save all your Chromebook files into that folder so you can hit new and then create a folder then you can name this folder anything you like but you know just to not confuse you or for better understanding it's easier if you just name it Chromebook downloads folder so we'll name this Chromebook downloads folder and create. Okay so now what happened you have a folder within Google Drive which is called Chromebook downloads folder and will not need this page anymore so you can just like you know minimize that or even cancel that. Okay so now you're going to open up the Google browser or Chrome browser again and then you have to go do the second step which is right here so you have to go to Chrome browser advance downloads location and change so I wrote down everything right here so which you can like you know check it and I'll put the disk process in the description box below as well so let's open up Chrome again. Okay so when you open Chrome then you're going to see on the upper right three dots you click on that and then from here you're going to go to settings you're going to go to advanced settings so you can go to advanced either by clicking here or just by scrolling down so we'll just you know scroll down to the advanced settings and then you have to just you know click here again. Okay so now here you can see that you know there's the downloads option which Chromebook used to have before under settings but they removed it so now this downloads option you're gonna see that you know right now it's saving all the files to the downloads folder which is in your Chromebooks local storage folder so we'll change that and we'll change that to the folder we just created in Google Drive so just hit change and then you can see that we have the Google Drive right here so if you click on here and then you can see that the folder I just created which is right here Chromebook downloads folder so if you just you know click on it and then just hit open which is right here so we change that location now to Google Drive for Chromebook and then we'll just you know close it so now we're going to test it if Chromebook is really saving everything to the you know download folder within Google Drive we created so I'm going to just save something in a random so for example this is my website ameddon.com and I'm just going to right click on it and then let's try to save this logo and then this is the name of the file which is right here and let's hit save okay so we saved it and then you can see that you know it's showing up here where it saved it so you can just like you know open it from here and you can see that it's taking it to the Google Drive and it's taking and it's telling you that you know we have that file I just saved right here so it's right here and you can see that you know this is under the same folder we created Chromebook downloads folder now just a small tip that if you want to make these folders available online then you can just like you know check this box to make it available online because right now it's showing available offline so just like you know check this and make it available online offline so what it does that you know if you don't have internet connection then you can still go to this folder Chromebook downloads folder and you can view all the files and everything you saved in there and then just to show you something else there's another way you can access that folder if you lose that you know pop up right here so what you can do you can search for files folder which is F I L and then if you click on the files folder then it's going to take you to the you know kind of file manager and then you can see that you know it's showing what files you have here and if you just click on Google Drive and then your Chromebook downloads folder is right here so if you just click on it then you can see that you know what I said before so that's another way of accessing the same file or Chromebook downloads folder we created inside Google Drive so that's all for today thank you for watching this video forget about subscribing to this channel forget about liking this video there will be more videos coming up so I'll see you shortly