Know the secrets of Google Drive

Google Drive is today one of the company's most used tools, its mobile version as an application has managed to unite our phones with cloud storage, making any file available to us at any time and no matter what. devices we are using. Now that teleworking and online classes are the order of the day, it is time to discover secrets of this app that you may not have known. Learn how to get the most out of your Google storage with all the news that its latest update brings.

Backups of everything

We all know the function it has to save any type of file, as long as we have enough space for it, but perhaps what you did not know is that it is in Google Drive where the backup copies of your entire Android device are saved, so you will find saved your call history, sms, application data, etc. It is a copy that is done automatically from time to time, but if you want it to be more continuous it is as simple as going to settings and choosing the period of time in which you want it to be done periodically.
You have to take into account if you have several devices linked to the same Google account you will have several backup copies, so it will be more space occupied, in each of them you can see what is inside and manage them by eliminating those you do not want.
Other of its little-known features is that you will also have the option of accessing the folders of your files that you have on your computer, both those that you have uploaded directly or those that have been synchronized. These are the ones that are not in the Google Drive folder, but are found anywhere on your PC. By installing Google Backup and Synchronization you will be able to get it and synchronize the folder you want, you will already have them in your cloud and you will access them through the Computers folder.
Although it is a cloud storage, you can also download them to be able to use and edit them without an Internet connection. And you even have the ability to create shortcuts to those important documents that you want to find easily. If you want to know who has been the person who has edited your shared documents, in details and security you will see all those participants who have modified it and the date on which it was.
One of its advantages is being able to save files from other applications, without having to save them on the mobile device and take up memory space.

Problems playing video files

One of the recent problems that many users have claimed to be suffering from is not being able to play video files well from Google Drive, with more than 600 users affected.
Specifically, they point out that these are paused with a yellow triangle and playback stops working. The Google forums have responded to some of those affected to try to solve this problem, pointing out that these were due to a format incompatibility with the application's own video API. The list of formats of this type that can be read is quite limited, limiting itself to MPEG4, AVI, WMV, FLV, WebM and MTS files, so if your file is from any other it will not be played and it will show you a message that says “¡¡ Whoops! There was a problem playing this video. " The fastest option to solve it is to convert your file into one of the formats that it does accept and you will enjoy it without any problem, for this you do not need to be an expert editor, there are many online converters that allow you to do it quickly and easily .
Another problem with this type of document that has been found is that videos that were previously seen without problem begin to fail, the solution that Google moderators and users have given is to open the file to another tab, which will make it open from scratch removed the corrupted codec. Another solution that they have given is to open Google Drive from another web browser, in which they have not given any type of problem.