When we go to search for something in Google Drive, we may find ourselves with the dilemma that it is very difficult for us, since we have a lot of information accumulated in the cloud.
If we know which is the folder where we have what we are looking for, it may be easier, but, even so, even in that case, surely we will not find it easily, since it may be the case that we have so many folders that it is an odyssey find a specific one.
But the good thing is that We have ways to find what we needwhether or not it is inside a folder, in a quick way, using Google Drive’s own search tool, in which we will be able to use advanced techniques with which we will restrict what we do not need or directly find what we need. be necessary.
Let’s see how we can manage our searches thanks to Google Drive, something that, as you will be able to read, is much easier than you imagine at first.
Quick folder search
We have a quick way to search in folders for what we need.
The steps that we must follow are really very simple to find what we want in a particular folder:
We select the folder in the My drive section.
- Then we right click or select the menu button with three vertical dots in the upper right.
- Among all the possibilities that are presented, we must choose where it puts search within [nombre de la carpeta].
- When the folder opens, we simply put the word phrase or term in the search box at the top and press Get in.
At that moment we are going to see all the results that appear with that name, which, if there is only one file with that name, will be extremely simple, since it will launch the result directly.
If there is more than one file with that name, we must make sure to select the correct one so that it works as it should and thus enjoy what that file has, whatever its type.
Advanced search for a folder
We have ways to limit the results as much as possible, so that we don’t have a bunch of files that appear the same or very similar when we do a Google search.
For this, what we are going to do is use the advanced search fields that Google Drive has, which are very good tools for this purpose.
- We click on the icon Search options on the right side of the search box at the top. We will use the chart Contains the words or the element name to enter your search term.
- Next to Location, we can click on Anyone (if we don’t know where the file is) or navigate to the folder by selecting the arrow to the right of My unit.
- If we choose this option, it will mean that we know where the file is, so now all we have to do is choose the corresponding folder.
- We fill in any of the remaining fields to restrict the file type, such as the date it was modified or if it we share with someone.
- Now all that remains is to click on Seek.
- Next, we will see the results of the files within that folder only or in general, depending on what we have chosen previously.
Search from the Google Chrome address bar
We can search Google Drive directly from the Google search engine, something that many users do not know and that may be practical to use sometime.
For that you have to do the following:
- First, we need to create a custom search engine to search Drive.
- We click on the three dots in the upper right corner of the Chrome window and then we go to Setting.
- We scroll down to the section Seeker and then click on Manage search engines or searches on the site.
- We are going to Inactive Shortcuts and we look for Google Drive, and then click on Activate.
- Now in Site searches, Click on the three points next to Google Drive and select choose as default.
- Now we go back, clicking on the arrow next to the title Manage search engines and site searches.
- So now in the dropdown next to Search engine using the address bar we choose Google Drive.
- It only remains for us to write what we want in the address bar of Google Chrome, so that it will automatically search for it in Google Drive.
- Yes, we want to put Google or another search engine back as the main search engine, we just have to go back to Settingthen Seeker and within Search engine used in the address barwe select the one we want.
- From then on, we will all have the same search engine that we have always had, whatever it may be.
These are the ways we have to quickly, easily and directly search for those files that we have in google drive and that we do not find at first glance because of the amount of storage we have in our unit.
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