{"id":192607,"date":"2022-06-03T10:47:58","date_gmt":"2022-06-03T08:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/en\/?p=192607"},"modified":"2025-07-01T20:41:50","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T03:41:50","slug":"google-drive-is-updating-file-locations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/google-drive-is-updating-file-locations\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Drive is updating file locations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cloud storage solutions like Google Drive and <a href=\"https:\/\/microsoft-onedrive.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Microsoft OneDrive<\/a> make it easier than ever before to work from anywhere, but they also offer protection against cybersecurity issues like ransomware. The more you keep on your cloud storage drive, the less you have to rely on that single hard drive that is stuck in a single location. Looking at Google Drive, there are some shortcomings, however, when compared to using say, File Explorer on <a href=\"https:\/\/windows-11.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Windows 11<\/a>. A new update is attempting to address one of the functional issues, so let\u2019s go through it now.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"sc-card-program\">\r\n  <div class=\"sc-card-program__body\">\r\n    <div class=\"sc-card-program__row clearfix\">\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-program__col-logo\">\r\n        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sc-card-program__img\" alt=\"Google Drive\" src=\"https:\/\/images.sftcdn.net\/images\/t_app-logo-xl,f_auto\/p\/a4ff16fe-96d1-11e6-a92a-00163ec9f5fa\/3049944431\/google-drive-icon.png\" width=\"100px\" height=\"100px\">\r\n      <\/div>\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-program__col-title\">\r\n        <span class=\"sc-card-program__title\">Google Drive<\/span>\r\n        <a class=\"sc-card-program__button sc-card-program-internal\" href=\"https:\/\/google-drive.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Download Now<\/a>\r\n      <\/div>\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-program__col-rating\">\r\n        <svg class=\"rating-score__content\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" version=\"1.1\" x=\"0\" y=\"0\" viewbox=\"0 0 50 50\" enable-background=\"new 0 0 50 50\" xml:space=\"preserve\"><path class=\"rating-score__background rating-score--good\" fill=\"none\" stroke-width=\"6\" stroke-miterlimit=\"10\" d=\"M40 40c8.3-8.3 8.3-21.7 0-30s-21.7-8.3-30 0 -8.3 21.7 0 30\"><\/path><path class=\"rating-score__value rating-score__value--0\" fill=\"none\" stroke-width=\"6\" stroke-dashoffset=\"0\" stroke-miterlimit=\"10\" d=\"M40 40c8.3-8.3 8.3-21.7 0-30s-21.7-8.3-30 0 -8.3 21.7 0 30\"><\/path><text class=\"rating-score__number\" content=\"\" text-anchor=\"middle\" transform=\"matrix(1 0 0 1 25 31.0837)\" data-auto=\"app-user-score\"><\/text><\/svg>\r\n      <\/div>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <div class=\"sc-card-program__row\">\r\n      <span class=\"sc-card-program__description\"><\/span>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <div class=\"sc-card-program__row\">\r\n      <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sc-card-program__bigpic\" src=\"\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\">\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <a class=\"sc-card-program__link track-link sc-card-program-internal\" href=\"https:\/\/google-drive.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/a>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As it has become cheaper and cheaper to have faster and bigger hard drives and hold larger and drives in the cloud, <strong>we have ended up with more and more files<\/strong> saved on them. <strong>Many of these files have similar-sounding names<\/strong>, which means when we go to retrieve them, <strong>we can end up confused as to which is which<\/strong>. This is particularly the case if you use Google Drive\u2019s Search function to do so. This new update will help us deal with that confusion by adding file locations to all files.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The new Google Drive feature<\/strong> <strong>works by showing up the location of a file when you hover over it<\/strong>. This means when you have searched for a file using its name you won\u2019t have to right-click on every result to check its location until you find the one you are looking for. All you will have to do is <strong>simply move down one by one until you see the location where you remember that the file you are looking for is stored.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>This feature is rolling out to all Google Workspace users now<\/strong> and will be turned out automatically for all users. Google expects it to be available for all users by the end of the month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This might only seem like a small update, but it adds to a number of updates Google has been adding to Google Workspace over recent weeks. These have included <a href=\"https:\/\/google-docs.en.softonic.com\/articles\/google-docs-collaborative-updates\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">improved collaboration features<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/google-docs.en.softonic.com\/articles\/google-docs-update-productivity-features\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">AI-powered productivity upgrades<\/a>. All these little features, and more, together will add up to significantly boost <a href=\"https:\/\/google-workspace.en.softonic.com\/web-apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Google Workspace<\/a>\u2019s offering as Google attempts to muscle in on <a href=\"https:\/\/microsoft-365.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Microsoft 365<\/a>\u2019s dominance of the productivity suite market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cloud storage solutions like Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive make it easier than ever before to work from anywhere, but they also offer protection against cybersecurity issues like ransomware. The more you keep on your cloud storage drive, the less you have to rely on that single hard drive that is stuck in a single &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/google-drive-is-updating-file-locations\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Google Drive is updating file locations&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9073,"featured_media":192618,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[2560],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-192607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-app-subdomain-redirectiongoogle-drive"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9073"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192607"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":323795,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192607\/revisions\/323795"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192607"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=192607"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=192607"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=192607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}