This week I will be discussing Google Drive which is where folks store files including PDFs, Google Docs, Google Sheets, images (since some people used to utilize the automatic sync between Photos and Drive and allow those photos to get uploaded to Drive in their own special folder), videos, and you name it since Drive can hold files that are Word Documents (so ending with .docx) and other things that are not what I like to call a "native format." The native format files would be Google Docs, Google Sheets, Google Slides, and Google Forms. Anything else in drive would not be what I call a native format but their application was produced by another company for example Microsoft Word was designed by Microsoft, the company. Even before you open a file, usually the name of the file will give you some sort of clue of what is the format so ones that are native don't give you a format ending but if the file is an image, then the end could be something like .JPG or if it is a movie, the ending might be .MOV. Word Documents should have a W icon and then the file name will end with .docx. The complete list of what types of files that can be stored in Drive:
https://support.google.com/drive/answer/37603
Files that are the native format do not take up storage however files that are ending with .MOV or .JPG or .docx do take up storage. A very good way to tell which files are actually taking up storage is by going to the bottom left of drive.google.com and clicking on " x.xGB out of 15GB used." The item that is .MOV in my Drive is 33MB whereas the images that are .JPG are 4MB. If I click on an item (so not to actually open it but to have it 'highlighted'), the bottom of my screen will tell where that file is located.
