Manage files in your Google Bulldoze storage

Your storage is shared beyond Google Drive, Gmail, and Google Photos. When your account reaches its storage limit, you lot can't transport or receive emails.

To run across how much infinite you have left, on a figurer, get to google.com/settings/storage.

How to clear space

Clear infinite in Google Drive, Gmail, and Google Photos to brand room for new items.

To delete your Google Bulldoze files, move them to the trash. Files in trash volition exist automatically deleted afterward xxx days. You can restore files from your trash before the xxx-day fourth dimension window. Y'all can also permanently delete them to empty your trash. If yous delete, restore, or permanently delete multiple files or folders at in one case, it might take time for you to discover the changes.

Free up storage infinite

Delete files past size in Google Drive

Permanently delete big emails in Gmail

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

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

  3. Select the emails you don't need, and then click DeleteDelete.
  4. On the left side of the folio, click MenuMenu and then Trash.
  5. At the superlative, click Empty trash now.

Permanently delete emails in your Spam folder

  1. On the left, click Spam. If you don't see Spam, click More than.
  2. At the elevation, click Delete all spam messages now. Or, select specific emails, and so click Delete forever.

For other ways to search for electronic mail, learn about Gmail search operators.

Move photos & videos to Trash

Delete and recover files using Google One Storage Manager

  • To delete single or multiple files that accept up storage, use the Google One Storage Director. Larn how to free up Google storage infinite.
  • If y'all delete a file by mistake, larn how to recover a deleted file.

Remove subconscious data from apps in Google Bulldoze

Items that utilize storage infinite

Google Drive

Important: As of June 1, 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 after June 1, 2021. For Google Workspace and Yard Suite editions, this alter goes into effect on February i, 2022.

  • Near files in your My Bulldoze take up space. 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, take up space.

Google Photos

  • Photos and videos backed up in Original quality take upward infinite.
  • Photos and videos backed upwardly in Loftier quality (now named Storage saver) or Express quality after June i, 2021. Any photos or videos yous backed up in High quality or Express quality before June 1, 2021 will not count toward your Google Account storage. Learn more about Photos fill-in options.

Storage differences in Google Drive

Items in Google Drive for your computer take up a dissimilar corporeality of space than the same items at bulldoze.google.com.

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

Items that don't utilize storage infinite

Google Bulldoze

  • Files in "Shared with me" and shared drives don't use infinite. These files but take up space in the possessor'due south Google Bulldoze.
  • Google Sites.
  • Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, Forms, Jamboard, and Drawings files you create earlier June 1, 2021, and don't edit after that date.

Google Photos

What happens if yous run out of infinite

Gmail

Important: Every bit of June one, 2021, if you remain inactive or become over your storage quota for 2 years or longer, all of your emails may be deleted.

You lot tin't send or receive letters. Messages sent to you are returned to the sender.

Google Drive

Important: Every bit of June ane, 2021, if yous remain inactive or become over your storage quota for ii years or longer, all of your emails may be deleted.

You can't sync or upload new files. You tin't create new files in Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, Drawings, Forms, and Jamboard. Until yous reduce the corporeality of storage you use, neither you nor anyone else can edit or copy your affected files. Syncs end betwixt your reckoner's Google Drive folder and My Drive.

Google Photos

Of import: Every bit of June 1, 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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