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dawg day

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5. Does Mom have a gmail account?

Tue Jan 21, 2020, 01:56 PM

Jan 2020

if not, you can get her one (or two). Each comes with 15 gig of storage up in the cloud. It's free. I have about 5 gmail accounts just so I can get the storage from each's Google drive.

Also, if she has Amazon Prime, that comes with free storage.

They're both easy to use-- just go to the "drive" in the cloud, browse to select the files from the hard drive, and upload.

You can even email files as attachments from the gmail account right to the same gmail account, though that might take longer. The attachments will then all be on the cloud.

But the Google Drive option means you can keep the folder structure by uploading entire folders.

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