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How do I enter a new line in a cell in Google Sheets?
Easiest way: add an extra letter at the end of the line. Select that letter. Hit enter. The letter will be replaced with a new line.
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Can I download folders from Google Drive to my Android device
You can alternatively use the browser and go to [drive.google.com/] and run the site in desktop mode. There, you can use the bar that's just under the search bar. Once you have navigated to the ...
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How can I change the default Google Drive PDF viewer on Android?
I had the same problem using Firefox on Android - totally maddening - but fixed it.
After installing Google Drive all my links to pdfs would open with Google Drive PDF Viewer.
I fixed it by, in ...
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How to mount rclone on Android?
The Magisk module you linked is using fusermount binary from this thread which is built for Termux environment. But LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable is not being set properly in the module, so the ...
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Prevent WhatsApp from restoring media from Google Drive Backup
So disconnecting WhatsApp from Google Drive didn't exactly work out because my chats were also in that Google Drive backup.
However, here is how I was successful in restoring only the chats. (No media)...
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Backup to Google Drive - Disabled by your admin. Why does my device show is? It's preventing me from restoring my backed up apps.
From Google Product forums , this has been widely reported by Nougat users and is a false alarm
Reply from Google help yesterday (08 Aug)
We just received a feedback from the Android team. The ...
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Can two phones with different WhatsApp numbers use the same Google Drive backup?
Yes you can do right now. Set your backup for the second phone number and make back up. After that when you go to Google Drive Backup address you can see two back up for two Whatsapp accounts.
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WhatsApp giving error message "unable to back up" (Google Drive)
Ahh, one of the gut-wrenching WhatsApp problems. Try below after you have tried all other options.
Change backup frequency to "never", under 'Back up to Google Drive".
Force stop ...
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"You will be out of Google Account storage once your WhatsApp backup begins counting": Solution to avoid being forced to pay & have a safety backup?
WhatsApp backups are tied to the phone number and Google Account they’re created with so syncing with another Google account is not an option AFAIK
Edit: After some experiments, It's possible!(unlike ...
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Why is my Android not restoring the app data from its Google Drive backup?
I'm going to post an alternative answer to my own question, in spite of having accepted the previous answer. The reason is that I have since learned, on my personal device, that the Android Backup and ...
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Can I download folders from Google Drive to my Android device
There is no need for a third party app. You can explore your Google drive storage like you can your internal storage from your phone's settings app. There you can then copy even folders to your ...
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Show a piece of a Google Spreadsheet document on Andriod main screen
Many thanks to beeshyams. Here is a way to do what I wanted.
This app allows to parse chosen content from any web page and use it as a widget. In order to have a Spreadsheets document as a web page ...
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How can I change the default Google Drive PDF viewer on Android?
I just had this problem on Android 7.0 Nougat. I on a pdf/drop box link I accidentally clicked set Drive PDF Viewer as default.
Similar to others.. To fix this in Nougat.
You must go to Settings->...
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How do I enter a new line in a cell in Google Sheets?
Mark the cell in which you want to have new lines.
At the top menu click the "A" next to the redo button.
in the lower screen section a modal pops up. There hit the tab "CELL".
Than activate "Wrap ...
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How do I enter a new line in a cell in Google Sheets?
The highlight a throw-away character and hit enter trick, as well as the type everything into a text editor, then copy/paste it into the Google Sheets cell, both only work on Android devices. I have a ...
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Copying a folder from Google Drive to Google Drive
It is not (yet) possible to copy and paste a folder on Google Drive.
The Google Drive Help - Organize your files in Google Drive for "Computer" mentions the following regarding copying:
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Making multiple files or a folder available offline in Google Drive
In the current version of the Google Drive app (Feb 2019), if you select several or all files within a folder, a bar appears at the bottom; the menu in this bar (at the bottom-right of the screen) ...
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Why does Google Drive for Android say "Failed to open the document"?
After months of mysery, I found the solution: go to docs app (instead of the drive app): if it says you need an update you are lucky as this solved my problem.
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ES File Explorer "Save to" doesn't work with Google Drive; "That operation is not supported"
This is a bug in es file explorer and android
one work around is to print as a pdf file (if you dont need to edit) pref use adobe pdf and then it will give you options where to save, default is ...
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Prevent WhatsApp from restoring media from Google Drive Backup
Easy.
Restore your WhatsApp as normal, also restoring the media.
On PC, go to Google Drive > Backups > right-click on selected WhatsApp backup, and choose "Turn off backup". Google ...
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How can I force the Google Sheets app to update to the server?
In 2014, when I originally asked the question, the multi-step procedure described in the question was necessary.
In 2015, an app update made it update automatically, as long as a net connection was ...
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How to save a edited PDF opened from google drive with Adobe Acrobat Reader
When you open a file from Google Drive with Adobe Acrobat, it doesn't actually open it in Google Drive because that is another computer that you can't access.
The file that you open with Acrobat on ...
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permissions to manage google drive automatically removed if app removed?
You'll want to log into your Google Drive via web browser:
Click the Gear icon
Select Settings
Click Manage Apps
Find the app in question, click on it and select Disconnect from Drive
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skip whatsapp restore on temporary phone but keep files for restore on next phone?
No. If you want to do this, you need to first go to settings in Google Drive, go to apps and disconnect whatsapp.
Then skip the restore.
It automatically overwrites your old one.
I had the same ...
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Why is my Android not restoring the app data from its Google Drive backup?
adb shell bmgr restore <TOKEN> <PACKAGE>
Source
Additional inputs from OP incorporated from comments
It appears that the reason it didn't restore automatically in my case was that ...
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Read Whatsapp message from Google Drive backup
Sorry to say but there is no way to Access the WhatsApp or any other app backup in google drive only app can access their backup files we cannot access any file that is saved by any other application
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Google drive making extra local copy on phone
Some possible causes to why the Drive app saves local copies:
The file has been accessed recently and cached. This is possibly to reduce more bandwidth usage when the file is accessed regularly. ...
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How can I save my old, important Whatsapp chat messages from automatic deletion when export doesn't go all the way back?
What I ended up doing is loading a chat on http://web.whatsapp.com and hit PgUp until I got to the oldest available post. It was seriously slow to load the whole chat. I could load the whole thing in ...
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Drive sends an almost-daily "1 file is now available offline" notification
I had the same problem and I think unchecking the "make recent files available offline" setting in the Google Drive app did the trick.
I'm using Google Drive v2.20.261.01.40 on a Google ...
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