How to Download the Entire Document on Google Drive

This updated guide examines How to Download the Entire Document on Google Drive and organizes the essential facts, background, and practical takeaways in clear American English.

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Method 1: Download the entire file on Google Drive

At the interface of personal files stored on Google Drive, we need to change the display interface. Click the List View icon . Then all data on Google Drive is displayed as a list.

Now press Ctrl + A to select all data stored on Google Drive, press Ctrl key, then click the 3-dot icon in the right corner of the screen, select Download .

At this time, Google Drive will compress the entire archive data to convert into a zip file.

The data on Google Drive is split into separate zip files, depending on the number of files you store and the size of a zip file that Google Drive compresses. Compressed files are numbered from 1 to the end of the compressed data.

At that time, users need to agree to allow the browser to download multiple files from Google Drive.

Click Save to save the compressed file of data downloaded from Google Drive.

As a result, we have compressed zip files downloaded on Google Drive. The last thing that is extracting data is done.

Method 2: Download all Drive data with Google Takeout

Google Takeout is Google's service to download all data from your personal Google account, including Google Drive data.

We access the Google Takeout page by following the link below and log in to your personal Google account.

https://takeout.google.com/settings/takeout

At the interface of the Google Takeout page, users will see there is a lot of data of the Google account is supported to download. We just need to tick the Drive data to download.

Also below are many other options for downloading data, such as adjusting the format for the data.

Or advanced settings download previous versions of the data.

Users can also choose the type of data that they want to download on Google Drive. If you want to download all the files, then tick Include all files and folders in Drive.

After selecting Drive data, scroll down and click Next .

Switch to the new interface the user will see several options for downloading Google Drive data. Click Create archive .

Finally, Google Drive will proceed to create an archive of data. If the number and size of files stored much, this process will take time.

When you see the interface as below, the file archive data Google Drive has completed, click Download.

The downloaded file is also extracted to get the Drive folder to store all data as shown below.

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