Organize your files in Google Bulldoze

To organize your files in Bulldoze, yous can create folders to make files easier to find and share with others.

Note: If y'all organize a lot of files or folders at once, information technology might have time for you lot to see the changes.

This is available on multiple devices.

Create, move, and re-create files

Create a binder

  1. On your computer, get to bulldoze.google.com.
  2. On the left, click New and then Folder.
  3. Enter a name for the folder.
  4. Click Create.

Movement items to a file or a binder

There are multiple ways to move items to a file or folder. Yous can do this while you view an detail on:

  • The primary window
  • The left panel
  • Google Drive search results

Tip: If you move folders with a lot of files or subfolders, it takes time for you to find the changes.

Manually move to a binder

  1. On your computer, become to drive.google.com.
  2. Right-click the particular you want to motility.
  3. Click Move to.
  4. Select or create a folder.
  5. Click Movement.

Drag to a folder

  1. On your computer, go to drive.google.com.
  2. Drag the item you want to motion.
  3. Motion the item over the folder and release it.

Tip: To move items into any binder in Google Drive, go to the left console.

Utilise keyboard shortcuts to move to a folder

Important: This functionality is only bachelor on Chrome.

  1. On your computer, go to drive.google.com.
  2. Select a file.
  3. To cut the file, press Ctrl + x.
  4. Go to the new location.
  5. Select an option:
    • To paste the file into the new location, press Ctrl + v.
    • To create a shortcut of the file into the new location, press Ctrl + Shift + 5.

Tip: Users tin can motion beyond browser windows.

Create a shortcut for a file or folder

Shortcuts make it easier for yous or your squad to find and organize files and folders in multiple Google Drives. A shortcut is a link that references another file or folder.

Create a shortcut

  1. On your figurer, go to drive.google.com.
  2. Right-click the file or folder you lot desire to make a shortcut for.
  3. Click Add shortcut to Drive.
  4. Choose where y'all desire the shortcut to exist.
  5. Click Add together shortcut.

Tip: You can create a re-create of a shortcut in a Drive binder, simply you can't create a shortcut to another shortcut file.

Use keyboard shortcuts to create a shortcut

Important: This functionality is merely available on Chrome.

  1. On your computer, go to drive.google.com.
  2. Select the file.
  3. To copy the file to the clipboard, press Ctrl + c.
  4. Become to the new location.
  5. To paste the shortcut into the new location, printing Ctrl + Shift + v.

Delete a shortcut

  1. On your computer, go to drive.google.com.
  2. Right-click the shortcut you lot want to remove.
  3. Click Remove.

To permanently delete the shortcut, empty your trash.

Of import: If you delete a shortcut, the original file is not deleted.

Create a link to a Drive file or binder in other applications

Important: This functionality is only bachelor on Chrome.

With Google Drive, you tin copy and paste the name of a file and/or folder in Google Editor documents and other applications.

  1. On your computer, get to drive.google.com.
  2. Select a file.
  3. Select an option:
    • To re-create the file or binder name to the clipboard every bit a link, printing Ctrl + c.
    • To copy the file or folder URL to the clipboard equally a link, press Ctrl + Shift + c.
  4. To paste the file or binder into a Google certificate or other applications, printing Ctrl + v.

Make a re-create of a file

Manually copy a file

  1. On your computer, go to drive.google.com.
  2. Right-click a file.
  3. Click Make a copy Make a copy.

Utilise keyboard shortcuts to re-create a file

  1. On your computer, go to drive.google.com.
  2. Select a file.
  3. To copy the file to the clipboard, press Ctrl + c.
  4. Go to the new location.
  5. To make a copy of the file into the new location, printing Ctrl + v.

Tip: Users can motility across browser windows.

Important:

  • This functionality is only available on Chrome.
  • You can't re-create folders, only files.
  • To observe a binder easier, you can create a shortcut to a binder.

Change the color of your folder

Yous tin customize the colour of folders and shortcuts to folders in your My Drive and shared drives. If you alter whatever colors, information technology merely applies to your view in Drive.

  1. On your computer, go to drive.google.com.
  2. Correct-click the folder y'all want to change.
  3. Click Change color and choose the colour you lot want.

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