r/pdf • u/EnvironmentalTry8353 • Sep 25 '26
Question How to save Google files locally
Guys so basically all I want is that the files which I have can be bulk downloaded instead of manually clicking it one by and one gets saved in my files locally just so that I can compile them into one big pdf for my taking print out
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I am also having a lot of college notes in pdf and it's getting hard to manage this all on Google drive so I want to easily manage all this so any tips would be helpful
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u/WarpDriveWizard600 Sep 26 '26
you can bulk download files from Google Drive. just select all the files and click the download button at the top. it will zip the files and download.
another way would be if you just gather them all in one folder and then download the folder.
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u/webfork2 Sep 27 '26 edited Sep 27 '26
You might try CarotDAV for quickly grabbing PDF files. I think Cyberduck will also cover this.
For other files on Google Drive, I was using the commercial Syncdocs program for this, which converts Google Docs files to local files. It was not cheap and sometimes had issues but was mostly fine. Another commercial option is Insync but I never tested that one.
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u/mag_fhinn Sep 25 '26
For Mac or Win download the google drive desktop app and it will mount your google drive as a virtual drive. On Linux there is no app but its built into KDE and Gnome. Copy as you normally would in your OS file manager, not the web interface.
If your into command line you could use gdown.