Google Drive is a great cloud storage service for many who would rather not pay for such a service. However, the same people sometimes realize that 15GB of space is not enough. You can solve this by creating multiple Google accounts, but how do you sync everything on your Windows computer?
You can also choose to get a paid subscription to Google Drive. So you have access to more storage and less work to do. Freeing up Drive storage is also an option. But using multiple Drive accounts on a single Windows PC doesn’t take that much time and energy.
It can also be useful for people with personal Google accounts, all using Drive on the same computer. Whatever your reason, this is your way.
Google Drive on Windows
If you want to use multiple Google Drive accounts on Windows, you need the official Drive app for Windows. You can download it from the dedicated download page by clicking the blue button with the text Download Drive for Desktop.
After downloading, install the application by following the steps on the screen. This can’t be wrong. During installation, the program prompts you to sign in with your Google account. For example, do this with your main account or your favorite account.
After installation, Google Drive always runs in the background. The media for your Drive account can be found in Explorer under this computer† There you will see an overview of hard drives, network drives and linked drives, but now you will also see a separate drive for Google Drive. If you want multiple accounts, you have to add them one by one via the taskbar.
- To see hidden icons, first click the arrow icon on the taskbar.
- Select the Google Drive icon with the left mouse button.
- Tap on your profile picture (located at the top left) and select the option to add an account.
- Now Google Drive asks if you want to sign in to the other account.
- Enter your login information for this account.
- After signing in, a separate drive will appear again next to the other Drive drive on the Explorer screen.
Automatic sync
From now on, all files will be synced automatically for both accounts. You can upload files by dragging or copying them to the appropriate drive. You can also easily remove them by removing them from the disk.
Note that you can add up to four accounts to a PC. So you can get up to 60GB of free disk space in total (or use Google Drive with a total of four people on one computer).
