Last week was marked by the release of two very important programs: Google Drive and OneDrive client, two alternatives, which can be used simultaneously, to upload files to the Internet to keep them always at hand. They join the most used Dropbox cloud storage and other services of which a summary article has been written for the comparison between online file storage programs.
If you want, you could decide to keep on your computer both OneDrive (7GB or 25GB of space), both Google Drive (5GB) and Dropbox (2GB expandable) so as to obtain a minimum total space of 14 GB that can be used to have a store, both on their own computer, whether on the internet, a copy of the most important files (music, photos, documents, videos or whatever you want).
Each file on your PC can be sent to one or another of these cloud drives simply with a right-click option , very quickly .
As seen, the OneDrive and Google Drive program, as well as Dropbox, can be installed on the PC to manage file uploading and synchronization.
To upload files to the internet, simply move or copy a file to the relevant G-Drive or Onedrive folder.
To do it first and to quickly select the files to be transferred to your web space, instead of dragging the files one by one, you can add an additional option to the " Send to: " menu of the right-click context menu.
What I am referring to is the menu that appears when you press the right mouse button on a file, in the Send To option, which has some predefined items (including also Dropbox) but customizable.
Practically, of each file that is sent to Dropbox, a copy of the same is created in the Dropbox folder and is automatically uploaded to the internet in the space available for the service.
To also add OneDrive, Google Drive or another similar cloud service, to the send to menu, just follow this simple procedure:
1) Navigate to the folder at C: \ Users \ username ("C" is the letter of the Windows installation drive and "username" is the name of the user account).
Right click on OneDrive first and then on Google Drive and choose, for each of the two, the option Create link .
2) Open a dialog from Start -> Run (press the Windows + R keys simultaneously), write the shell command : sendto and press the Enter key to open the SendA folder.
3) Finally copy the links created before for OneDrive and Google Drive in the SendTo folder.
From now on, you can upload a file to the online storage service by clicking the right mouse button and using the "Send To" option.
The only minor flaw with this trick is that when you use the Send To menu to send a file to the Google or SkyDrive disk, the file is stored in the root folder and not in a sub-folder.
Also keep in mind that each file is made a copy on your computer, so it is not moved.
If you want to move a file to SkyDrive or Google Drive without creating copies, it takes a different method, creating symbolic links.
