Google Drive Overview

Google Drive Overview

About: At HHM we use Google Drive to work on documents, organize our files and collaborate with our Teams.

How to access your Google Drive


You can access your Google Drive any of the following ways:

Via Drive File Stream \ Google Drive for Desktop (G: Drive)

Note: As of January 2021, Drive File Stream is being renamed to Google Drive.



All HHM computers have the program Drive File Stream installed on it. Once you open this program and sign in with your HHM Google Account - you can access your Google Drive and Shared Drives right in the familiar Windows File Explorer.

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Pros: Easily work with Microsoft Office files, manage your files easily by copying, pasting, moving or deleting right in Windows File Explorer.
Cons: Missing some modern features that are available on drive.google.com like Starring, coloring folders, etc.

Via drive.google.com in your web browser


Using any web browser, you can go to drive.google.com to access your files. You'll find helpful features like Starring folders or files (similar to bookmarking), coloring your folders to help you organize, easily find files you've recently modified or files and folders that have been shared with you. You can also use the search bar along the top to quickly find what you're looking for including searching for keywords inside of documents. If you are brand new to Google Drive, check out the Google training link below.


Related Help Articles:
How do I recover a missing file from Google Drive?
Recover a previous version of a file

Pros: Modern features available like starring, coloring folders, real time collaboration, activity feed, etc.
Cons: Some may find managing files via the web browser cumbersome - if this is the case definitely check out Drive File Stream.

Via the Google Drive mobile app


You can access your files on the go using the iOS or Android Google Drive app. Simply download the app from your app store, open it, and sign in with your HHM Google Account.



How to upload files to your Google Drive


We recommend saving all critical work files to your Google Drive. It's important to remember that the folders on your computer like Desktop, Documents, Downloads, etc - are not backed up and in the event of computer failure, files saved only to these folders would be lost and not recoverable. See the help articles below to learn how to upload files to your Google Drive:



Training Video




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