Moving your H drive documents to your Google Drive

  1. Before you begin transferring documents that are on your H drive to your new Google Drive, you might want to think about how you are going to organize your Google Drive. Do you want to create one new folder and call it, “My H drive documents”? Or, do you want to create multiple folders for each subject you teach? Whatever you feel comfortable with is fine.

  2. Once you are in your Google Drive, click on “New” and choose
    “Folder”. Name the folder whatever you want, like Math, Reading, Interventions, or PLC Forms.

  3. Double click the folder you want to move documents into.

  4. Now, grab the side of your web browser and shrink it to half the screen.

  5. Go to your Finder Menu bar at the top of the screen, or click on the Finder icon in your dock,  and click on “Go” and scroll down to “Computer”. Open your H drive labeled with your username.

  6. Half of your screen will be your Google Drive and the other half will be your H drive. This makes it easier for transferring files.

  7. Find the documents you want to transfer.

  8. Click and hold/drag the document over to your Google Drive folder.

  9. You can choose to drag one document at a time, or bring many over at the same time to speed up the process. You can click on a document and then hold down the Shift key and highlight as many documents as you want. Then, click and hold/drag them all over at the same time.

  10. You can also drag entire folders over to your Google Drive to really speed things up. If you organize your H drive documents already into folders, you can just click and hold/drag the entire folder over. You do not need to make a new folder in your Google Drive first. The folder you drag over will create its own folder.