Google Drive question
Nov 23, 2015, 7:39 pm
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Google Drive question
Why is it that I have only stored 5GB of data on my Google Drive folder on my PC, but when I go on the Google Drive website, it says I am using almost 15GB of data? I see the storage distribution of Drive, Gmail, and Picasa photos, and the second two total about 500MB.
Nov 24, 2015, 4:56 am
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Are you using google docs sheets etc? Google stores pointer files of very short length for those on your pc. Not the entire document. I don't know why or how to get it to store the full document. Noticed this myself.
Nov 24, 2015, 8:06 am
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Another question regarding google drive.
I know it's NOT best practice to save files out there with your sss# or bank acct # or cc#, but what if say you in your xls or doc type file save the last 4 digits of said id on my google drive. Would you do it or use something like "VISA - MILEAGE PLUS" instead of 1238 (last 4 digits of acct#).
Help?!
I know it's NOT best practice to save files out there with your sss# or bank acct # or cc#, but what if say you in your xls or doc type file save the last 4 digits of said id on my google drive. Would you do it or use something like "VISA - MILEAGE PLUS" instead of 1238 (last 4 digits of acct#).
Help?!
Nov 24, 2015, 6:43 pm
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Nov 25, 2015, 9:24 am
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From this Google Drive link:
Items that count toward your storage limit:
Items that don't count toward your storage limit:
Items that count toward your storage limit:
Items that don't count toward your storage limit:
Nov 25, 2015, 9:48 am
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Can anyone explain this to me?
I'm currently using 12 GB of my Google Drive space, yet photos are taking up 6 GB of that space.
Why would they take up any space? I don't have "original" chosen as my quality, and the pictures are individually small in size, so shouldn't I have unlimited photos?
I'm currently using 12 GB of my Google Drive space, yet photos are taking up 6 GB of that space.
Why would they take up any space? I don't have "original" chosen as my quality, and the pictures are individually small in size, so shouldn't I have unlimited photos?
Nov 25, 2015, 1:47 pm
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Still don't know what's going on. On Google's website, it says my Google drive is using 14GB+ of space. However, when I look at Google Drive on my hard drive, it's taking up about 5GB of space.
Nov 25, 2015, 3:02 pm
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Perhaps you are only synchronizing some of the Google Drive folders to your PC?
https://support.google.com/drive/answer/2375083
https://support.google.com/drive/answer/2375083
Nov 25, 2015, 4:56 pm
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Perhaps you are only synchronizing some of the Google Drive folders to your PC?
https://support.google.com/drive/answer/2375083
https://support.google.com/drive/answer/2375083
Nov 25, 2015, 7:47 pm
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What is this an "again" type of answer? It's your first post here... Also, if you read my first post - the second of two sentences - I have a total of about 500MB of stuff in Gmail and Google pics (Picasa),
Nov 26, 2015, 7:05 am
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Found the solution... Even if you delete stuff off of your Drive folder on your computer, they are stored in a Trash folder online. Check https://drive.google.com/drive/trash and clean up your clutter there. That's what took up about 9GB of my Drive space.
Nov 30, 2015, 11:34 am
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Any videos? Any devices which were set to "original" in the past (they won't re-compress things previously uploaded as original) or so old as to have been uploaded via PicasaWeb (ditto.)
Dec 2, 2015, 1:38 am
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Any way to auto-recompress pics? Cuz I have no clue, and considering 6 GB, that's a lot of pictures to go through each one individually
Dec 2, 2015, 2:52 am
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