Caption:- Sad. Now I feel as if the ocean is going to disappear now.
“Click a pic & and forget it.” Do not worry about where and how much to store. Google photos will take care of the rest!
That is a profoundly useful attribute of the app.
Busted. In future that would become a part of the space allocation on Google drive!
On receiving that email, I decided to have a look at the current position on the drive.
And to my shock, most of the capacity was already full!
Now that’s a fearful situation.
Nevertheless, through these steps, I recovered most of the chunk and ready to receive the impact.
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Removed the Google Photos folder. Although that doesn’t occupy any space, it may not be so in the future.
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Altered all spreadsheets, documents, one page PDFs and presentations to “sheets”, “docs” & “slides.”
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Converted some remaining pics into High quality & also deleted all unsupported videos, through “photos.google.com/settings”.
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Moved all MP3 recordings to another service.
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Transferred all travel & vehicle-related information to an online digital locker.
At this place, I discovered the suggestions offered at this link to be extremely useful to purge some large-sized ingredients.
https://one.google.com/u/0/storage/management?from=1&hl=en
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Also, some backups along, with connected applications, occupy space on the drive.
Notable ones are -.
=> Phone backup:-. That’s a convenient and unavoidable feature. Nevertheless, some service providers offer that facility in the typical plan.
=> WhatsApp:- It’s not worth withholding the data. I disconnected the app. Though WA does not occupy any space right now, that also may change!
=> Document scanner app: - I dismissed that. Google Drive has excellent scanning capability. -
But all these actions produced little effect. Gmail was occupying a hefty chunk.
=> To begin with, I removed all the unimportant subscriptions.
Subsequently, created filters to set apart such emails which have accumulated to date and deleted all those.
How to do that? Over here is the official help page explaining how to achieve that.
https://support.google.com/mail/answer/6579?hl=en
What stayed after that were the mails of some importance.
However, there was no point in allowing them to continue on the server.
=> Next, through the site takeout.google.com. Selected Gmail for download & exported all the data once.
Later, I adjusted the settings to “Export every 2 months for 1 year.”
After that, I created one more filter to list emails older than two & deleted all.
Nevertheless, the users who have some desktop email client can do so in a more convenient manner.
Additionally, I found the suggestions at this link to be useful.
https://www.google.com/settings/storage
Once there, select “free up account storage” option.
That will highlight all large-sized files, emails, etc.
Through these efforts, now the occupied space has become five per cent only! Even then, that’ would be inadequate as the assessment says that would suffice for three years only!
But, there is a promise to provide a tool to identify blurred or duplicate pics. Let’s wait for that.
Are there some more ideas to offer?
