Google Drive & Google One: This is how you can free up your storage space – quickly find and delete storage hogs

Google users should always keep an eye on their available storage space, as this is not available endlessly for three very frequently used services, but is only available according to the quota granted – this also applies to Google Drive. Today we’ll show you how you can use a simple tool within Google One to track down the biggest storage hogs in cloud storage and delete them in just a few steps.

While in most Google products there is no compliance with the number or extent of stored data, this is the case with the trio Google DriveGoogle Photos and GMail look different. These must share a common quota of 15 gigabytes, which can be expanded by several hundred gigabytes or even terabytes with a Google One subscription if necessary. If an extension is necessary, you will hardly be able to avoid it in the long term, but you can temporarily help yourself by deleting files that are no longer needed.

We’ve already shown you how to delete unnecessary media on Google Photos or lose large emails on GMail, and today we’ll focus on Google Drive. The same rule applies as for the other two products: deleting large files is very helpful, but you shouldn’t stop after that. Of course, even a large number of smaller files can give you some breathing room.

If you want to free up storage on a larger scale, you need to focus on large files that take up a lot of space. It is precisely for this purpose that Google One has a tool that can detect oversized media and offer it for deletion. There is no rating of the content, just a sorted list of large files that place a heavy burden on the quota.