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. You will see files categorized from large to small. Visit Google Drive on the web and click the Storage button from the left sidebar. My boyfriend recently hit the same Gmail storage roadblock and started forwarding emails to his various work accounts. Now, let us show you how to free up space on Google Drive using the Drive web and mobile app. 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). So that’s it! We hope you find this helpful and let us know in the comments also what do you do when you run out of storage space.My credit card is auto-charged once a month so I can have space on Google Drive.
From Google photos settings, choose “High Quality” to allow Google to reduce the file storage size of photos you save to Google Photos on the web. You can also reduce the storage space of videos and photos. STEP 3: Make sure the box “Convert uploaded files to Google Docs editor format” is checked. Choose to convert files to a Google Drive format by default when you upload a Google Drive file. Store files that use no storage allocationĬonverting files, you store on Google Drive to native Google Docs formats can save significant space. Discarded items include deleted emails, spam emails. When there is space you can free up, you should see Review and free up 'size.' Each category shows you at a glance where your space is being used. A few categories are available to determine where your space is being used. Empty the trash in Gmail to remove these items permanently.Ĥ. Go to the Storage Management page, and log into your account if needed. Again, delete emails with large attachments that you no longer need. In the search box, type the following to search for large attachments: For example – size:15MB.
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