Eight things to check if your Google Drive storage is running low

With every Google account, 15GB of free cloud storage is now included. This storage spans across all Google services, including Drive, Docs, Sheets, Gmail, and Photos. Sharing this data across many platforms makes it simple to quickly hit your limit. Cleaning up your current storage is as helpful as buying more storage with Google One.

These are the eight most important things to think about while managing the storage on Google Drive.
Evaluate how much you use Google Drive.
Start by figuring out which Google service or main data is taking up the most space in your storage. To see your usage breakdown, go to the “Storage” section of the Google Drive website. Determine which folders or files are taking up the most space on your storage. After they’ve been located, it’s time to take the appropriate action.
Take out your garbage.

For a period of 30 days, deleted items from Google Drive are kept in the trash folder. Take them out of the trash by hand to free up storage space.
Get more disk space by deleting the Gmail attachments.
Drive’s storage use is influenced by attachments that are received via Gmail. In order to save superfluous emails from taking up cloud storage space, it is advised to delete them—especially if they include attachments. To find emails containing attachments, use the “has:attachment” operator in the Gmail search box. You can then download and remove the files from Google Drive as required.
Control the recordings on Google Meet.
Having a lot of meetings recorded might take a big toll on your drive storage. Make sure you remove recordings after downloading them or after you are done with them. This routine aids in avoiding wasting the storage space allotted to your drive.
Use caution while restoring Google Photos.
Content from your camera gallery is automatically backed up via Google Photos backup. Thankfully, it offers the option to backup individual albums, so that only important images and videos are kept. Videos sometimes have bigger file sizes and need more storage space, so think twice before backing them up. To further save data, choose to upload photos in high quality as opposed to full resolution.
Before uploading, compress the files.
If you have large files taking up a lot of space, try compressing them into ZIP or RAR packages. Files that have been compressed use less storage space without sacrificing information.
To clean up Drive, use Google’s storage manager.
Use Google’s built-in tool to effectively eliminate unnecessary stuff from your Google Drive if it is filling up. Visit https://one.google.com/u/1/storage to use the tool to remove files that aren’t needed, which can help you free up important storage space.
Keep an eye on how family members are using shared storage.
If you have family members that you share your Google Drive storage with, check to see if someone is using too much space. If so, please ask them to delete everything that isn’t being used in order to free up storage space.