In the beginning, Chromebooks weren’t really meant to manage files. It’s tough to even remember now, but in the earliest incarnation of Chrome OS, way back in the Paleolithic era of 2010, Chromebooks ...

Learn where Downloads, Drive, Android, and Linux files actually live, plus the shortcuts that make the Files app much faster.

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Getting rid of online and local files can be a slightly different process. Getting rid of online and local files ...

“Files are so 1990,” said Google’s Sundar Pichai back in 2008. “I don’t think we need files anymore.” The man in charge of Google’s products has thankfully changed his tune since then. Now Google is ...

Google has consistently and frequently improved its Chromebook platform. That includes adding a way for users to pin files and folders to the system shelf for easier access. And using that feature, ...

People who use a Chromebook are likely familiar with at least a couple of common ways to work with the Portable Document Format (PDF) created by Adobe in 1993 that preserves a document’s layout and ...

Chromebooks have always made sense for heavy Google services users. But they’ve been less ideal for devotees of Dropbox, OneDrive, or other cloud storage services, since Google Drive was the only ...

Want to compress multiple files on your Chromebook or open an archive you recently downloaded? It’s easy, as Chrome OS includes an integrated tool to pack and unpack ZIP-based archives. There’s no ...

One of the beautiful things about owning a Google Chromebook laptop is the surprising lack of maintenance involved. The browser is essentially the OS and you connect to applications via the cloud.