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if you're anything like see you end up
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on multiple computing devices in any
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given day whether it's your phone or
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tablet Windows machine and Mac
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Chromebook whatever the case may be a
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lot of times we move between different
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devices and the harsh reality is a lot
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of times you go to pick up whatever
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device it is and you've been working on
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another one and the file you need to
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work on the file you need to manipulate
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just isn't there and fortunately for
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Chromebook users there's a way to avoid
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this pain point altogether and for this
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chromebook tip Tuesday we want to show
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Nord VPN first up it needs to be stated
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that you can do some of this in the same
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way for Windows or Mac devices because
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what we're going to talk about is
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actually a chrome setting the difference
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whenever you're actually using it Mac
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and Windows devices don't quite interact
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with your files in Google Drive the same
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way a Chromebook would there is file
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stream that you can use on those and
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we'll talk about that in a further
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tutorial but if you're using file stream
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a lot of this stuff will translate the
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same way it would for a Chromebook but
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in general what we need to talk through
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is the chrome setting that's going to
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get you set up to using your downloads
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folder in Google Drive the way that you
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would as if you were downloading them
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straight to your device so first things
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first you need to go to Google Drive
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either again in your file browser or in
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file stream or straight up just on the
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internet go there and create a downloads
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folder what I would recommend doing is
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placing either an asterisk before it or
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placing an underscore or a dash or
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something like that what that's going to
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do is anytime you sort things by name
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it'll put it right at the top so every
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time you go to download it's easy to
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find that file so once you've done that
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once you've created that downloads
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folder you can call it downloads you can
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call it cloud downloads or whatever it
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is you want to call it doesn't really
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matter as long as you know what you're
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using and you know are you're working
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with you'll be in good shape here create
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that folder and now you're ready to set
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up the other setting in chrome that
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allows this to happen automatically in
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order to do that you're gonna want to go
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to your chrome settings so open up a
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chrome tab and hit the three dot menu
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for Chrome OS users this is important
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because whenever it is you're watching
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this video it's highly likely that
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they've split the settings so you have
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Chrome OS settings and you have Chrome
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browser settings we need to be in the
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chrome browser settings so you need to
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open up a chrome window hit your
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three-dot button go to your settings on
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the left side under advanced you're
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gonna find a section that says downloads
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and in that section there is a spot
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where it says choose the folder that you
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would use for your downloads this is all
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pretty straight forward at this point
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click the button choose the file that
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you just created whatever again whatever
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it is you've called it you're going to
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choose that file and now what
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Chrome is going to do anytime you
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download a file from anywhere it is
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always going to put it in that folder
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and so the next time you download some
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stuff and you're working on a few things
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and then you go and hit the road you
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open up another Chromebook or you open
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up your Windows Device you open up your
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Mac and you need that file well guess
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what you didn't have to remember to
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actually go download and then re-upload
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those to a file management system
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somewhere they're already saved in
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Google Drive and they're accessible
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wherever it is you are because that's
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the magic of the cloud
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so in general we just hope this helps
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you make that decision to make that step
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and change the setting on your
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Chromebook so that you don't run into
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that same kind of problem in the future
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and oh by the way if you want to change
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some channels like we talked about in
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last week's chromebook tip Tuesday you
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can feel free to do so and not really
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have to worry about whether you clear
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local storage or not once you go back to
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the stable Channel because everything's
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gonna be set up and ready to go as soon
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as you sign in and that's just the
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benefit of Chrome OS it's the benefit of
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Google Drive and it's the benefit of
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cloud computing in general but guys
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