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Google is rolling out a redesigned location picker for Google Drive on the web. The update brings visual enhancements to the pop-up that appears when moving files and folders or adding shortcuts to items. You also get helpful suggestions that enable you to “quickly and efficiently select a location to organize files and folders.”
When you right-click on a file or folder in Drive and select “Move to,” you’ll be presented with a redesigned pop-up with the file/folder name at the top, along with its current location. Below it, you get three tabs — Suggested, Starred, and All locations — from where you can select the destination location. The path of the selected location is noted at the bottom. Google Drive will also tell you if the selected folder is empty.
A “Move” button will let you move the file to that location with just one click. If you want to select a sub-folder, you can use the “arrow” icon. Google adds that “the tabs are replaced by a back button and the name of the location” upon navigating into a folder location. You’ll also get details for the selected folder paths and an option to quickly create a new folder within an existing folder.
Additionally, Google Drive will provide you with suggested locations when moving files or folders. If you don’t want to move to a suggested location, you have the option to reject the suggestion. It will immediately remove the suggestion from the list. Last but not least, the company has added a label that notes if a folder is “view only”. It also explains why “you might face an error when moving a file, such as not being the owner of a file.”
This Google Drive update is now rolling out to users
Google started rolling out the latest update for its cloud file storage and synchronization service this Wednesday, April 12. As usual, the changes will first reach Google Drive users on Rapid Release domains. The company plans to cover those users within the next couple of days. It will start seeding the redesigned location picker to users on Scheduled Release domains on April 26. There is no admin control for these changes. They will be available to you immediately. As far as eligibility is concerned, Google says this update for Drive will breach all Google Workspace customers, legacy G Suite Basic and Business customers, and users with personal Google Accounts.
