There is no warning during “copying” file that by deleting it from one location it will be deleted also from another locations! Google Drive has poor user interface which can lead to lost of your data. It offers date filters feature by which users can save Gmail data within a certain date range. With this application, users can save Gmail emails to different file formats. When you try to delete origin or “strangely copied” file – in both cases, file in another location will also disappear! Be careful of this! I do not understand how google drive developers could design this non standard not expected behavior for such simple operation as copying file. Moreover, it is capable enough to save complete Gmail mailbox items, i.e., emails, contacts, calendars, and documents locally on the system. So what is it? Surely nothing standard or expected. – it is not known “hardlink” (because deletion of hardlinked file means that file(s) in another location(s) is not deleted until count of hardlinks is zero). – it is not known “symlink” (because deletion of symlink deletes just symlink, not original file)

Plus icon in most used operating system in the world Windows means that file will be really copied, but what does google… it creates something strange – you can see file in the two different locations, but file is not really duplicated and also: Browse to the location with the files to upload, then.

How can I select multiple files to upload to Google Drive Click the New button at the top-left of the window, then choose File upload. Right-click on one of the selected files, then choose the Remove option.

But when during drag&drop you press CTRL you can see “plus icon” which means file will be copied instead of moved. Hold down the Ctrl key, then click each file you want to delete. In you can drog&drop file from one folder to another – it is ok – it moves file as user expects. You are wrong – it is not symlink (see below). “Alternatively, it looks like Drive is using symbolic links of Unix to implement this feature.”

Save google doc in multiple folders