Google Drive offers a base storage of 15GB for storing files online and syncing them across devices. But if you’re running low on storage, here’s what you can do: First, delete the biggest files that are hogging space. Google Drive lets you sort by file size so you can see large files first and delete them if you don’t need them anymore. However, they get sent to Trash where they accumulate and use up storage. Just click Trash in the sidebar of Google Drive for desktop, select the files you want to delete and hit ‘Delete’ to rid of them for good. Hold down the Shift key to select multiple items or Ctrl+A to select all items for deletion.
Google Drive is a key component of Google Workspace, Google’s monthly subscription offering for businesses and organizations that operated as G Suite until October 2020. As part of select Google Workspace plans, Drive offers unlimited storage, advanced file audit reporting, enhanced administration controls, and greater collaboration tools for teams.
Following the launch of the service, Google Drive’s privacy policy was heavily criticized by some members of the media. Google has one set of Terms of Service and Privacy Policy agreements that cover all of its services, meaning that the language in the agreements grants the company broad rights to reproduce, use, and create derivative works from content stored on Google Drive. While the policies also confirm that users retain intellectual property rights, privacy advocates raised concerns that the licenses grant Google the right to use the information and data to customize the advertising and other services Google provides. In contrast, other members of the media noted that the agreements were no worse than those of competing cloud storage services, but that the competition uses “more artful language” in the agreements, and also stated that Google needs the rights in order to “move files around on its servers, cache your data, or make image thumbnails”.
As of July 2018, Google Drive had over one billion active users, and as of September 2015, it had over one million organizational paying users. As of May 2017, there were over two trillion files stored on the service.
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