Manage files in your Google Bulldoze storage

Your storage is shared across Google Drive, Gmail, and Google Photos. When your account reaches its storage limit, yous tin can't send or receive emails.

To see how much space you take left, on a computer, get to google.com/settings/storage.

How to articulate infinite

Clear infinite in Google Bulldoze, Gmail, and Google Photos to make room for new items.

To delete your Google Drive files, movement them to the trash. Files in trash will be automatically deleted after 30 days. You lot can restore files from your trash before the 30-day time window. Y'all can likewise permanently delete them to empty your trash. If you delete, restore, or permanently delete multiple files or folders at once, it might take time for you lot to observe the changes.

Free up storage space

Delete files by size in Google Drive

Permanently delete large emails in Gmail

  1. In the Search box, type has:attachment larger:10M.

  2. Click Search Search.
    Note: Replace "10" with a higher number to delete larger files.

  3. Select the emails you lot don't need, and so click DeleteDelete.
  4. On the left side of the page, click Carte du jourMenu and then Trash.
  5. At the top, click Empty trash now.

Permanently delete emails in your Spam binder

  1. On the left, click Spam. If y'all don't meet Spam, click More.
  2. At the tiptop, click Delete all spam letters now. Or, select specific emails, then click Delete forever.

For other ways to search for email, learn nearly Gmail search operators.

Movement photos & videos to Trash

Delete and recover files using Google 1 Storage Manager

  • To delete single or multiple files that take up storage, utilise the Google I Storage Manager. Learn how to gratuitous up Google storage space.
  • If you delete a file by error, learn how to recover a deleted file.

Remove subconscious information from apps in Google Drive

Items that use storage space

Google Drive

Important: As of June i, 2021, newly created Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, Drawings, Forms, or Jamboard files count toward storage. Files that already exist don't count toward storage unless they're modified on or afterwards June 1, 2021. For Google Workspace and G Suite editions, this change goes into result on February 1, 2022.

  • Most files in your My Drive have up infinite. For example:
    • PDFs
    • Images
    • Videos
  • Items in your Trash. Learn how to empty your trash.

Gmail

Letters and attachments, like items in your Spam and Trash folders, accept up space.

Google Photos

  • Photos and videos backed up in Original quality accept up space.
  • Photos and videos backed upward in High quality (now named Storage saver) or Limited quality after June 1, 2021. Any photos or videos you lot backed up in High quality or Express quality before June i, 2021 will not count toward your Google Account storage. Learn more well-nigh Photos fill-in options.

Storage differences in Google Bulldoze

Items in Google Drive for your computer accept up a unlike corporeality of space than the aforementioned items at drive.google.com.

  • Items in your Trash take upwards infinite in Google Drive, just aren't synced to your computer.
  • Shared items will have up space on your estimator, merely not Google Drive.
  • Items that are in multiple folders will be synced to all folders on your reckoner, taking upward more infinite.
  • If you only sync some folders to your computer, the storage on your figurer will exist less than what is shown on Google Drive.
  • Your estimator may show a slightly different file size than drive.google.com considering of Mac or PC requirements.

Items that don't utilise storage infinite

Google Drive

  • Files in "Shared with me" and shared drives don't use space. These files only take up space in the owner's Google Drive.
  • Google Sites.
  • Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, Forms, Jamboard, and Drawings files you create earlier June 1, 2021, and don't edit after that appointment.

Google Photos

What happens if y'all run out of space

Gmail

Of import: Equally of June 1, 2021, if y'all remain inactive or go over your storage quota for 2 years or longer, all of your emails may be deleted.

Y'all can't send or receive messages. Messages sent to you lot are returned to the sender.

Google Drive

Important: As of June 1, 2021, if you remain inactive or go over your storage quota for two years or longer, all of your emails may be deleted.

You lot can't sync or upload new files. You lot can't create new files in Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, Drawings, Forms, and Jamboard. Until you lot reduce the corporeality of storage you use, neither y'all nor anyone else tin can edit or re-create your affected files. Syncs end between your computer'south Google Drive folder and My Bulldoze.

Google Photos

Of import: Equally of June one, 2021, if you remain inactive or go over your storage quota for 2 years or longer, all of your emails may be deleted.

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