Empty the Trash Binįiles deleted from Drive, Gmail, or Photos are moved to the trash bin. You can choose to download the already backed up media via Google Takeout before you compress the files. This will reduce the quality of your backed-up photos and videos but free up a lot of storage. Head to Settings and select Storage Saver to reduce backup quality. Furthermore, if you see the Recover Storage option, tap it and select Compress to convert original quality items to storage saver quality. If You See High Storage Consumption in Google Photos Type and enter size:10M in the search bar to get all emails with attachments larger than 10MB. If You See High Storage Consumption in Gmail Furthermore, you’ll have to delete them from the recycle bin. Delete the ones you do not need or transfer the large files to another Google Drive account. You already track my every move.Open Google Drive. It's worth it admittedly, but I can't get over that I'm doing what both companies want me to do - pay them for a service that could be free if I didn’t rely on them so much.įine take my money, you greedy suckers. So now the two of the biggest tech companies get $1.99 and 99 cents from me every month. Luckily that meant charging just under $1 a month for 50 GB of online storage, but still I'm cheap and it adds up. After seven years of iPhone ownership it was time to pay up. Again the 5 free GB couldn't keep up with the realities of my digital life. My mom had to cough up the nearly $2 monthly charge for her personal email account last week.Įven on my iPhone I relented to the endless pressure from iCloud to buy more storage space. My boyfriend recently hit the same Gmail storage roadblock and started forwarding emails to his various work accounts. I know it's not just me giving in reluctantly to the auto-subscription. The good times had come to an end and it looked like shelling out nearly $24 a year to a company that makes $109.65 billion in annual revenue. I'd been so cocky for 12 years, thinking I could string out my free 15 GB of free Google Drive storage (that includes my emails, Documents, Sheets, Photos - my entire online life, basically).

My credit card is auto-charged once a month so I can have space on Google Drive.

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