Google-drive – How to copy links to Google Drive document

If I have a need to for quick access to multiple Google accounts (work and home, for instance) I'll almost always use a second browser. Usually I'll use Google Chrome for my personal stuff, and Firefox for work.

Another way to manage it is to right-click the link and choose "Open link in incognito window". (Chrome, but just about every other browser has an equivalent feature.) Sure, you'll be prompted to log in, but you shouldn't lose track of where the link leads once you do.

So if I understand correctly you are needing to make an offline back up of your google drive folder that is in your desktop?

Here are two different options.

1. Create a compressed version. This restricts the access to the files, however they are safe and can be done inside the cloud. Anyone can do this and could be done as a rotational duty. Purge or remove and storage once a week to avoid storage limits.

2. After the files are synchronized to your computer you have offline copies already available. You can simply copy the files "not the google drive folder" to a folder on the external hard drive. This will not resync the files and avoid the bandwidth usage.

If I were going to do something like this and from the sounds of it you do not have direct access to the files around the clock. Simply make separate Google drive that only certain people have access to so that you can transfer these files directly through Google to avoid the bandwidth charges.

Hope this helps :)