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Old Nov 24, 2015 | 4:56 am
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Originally Posted by TOMFORD
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.
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.
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