Your storage is shared across Google Drive, Gmail, and Google Photos. When your account reaches its storage limit, you can’t send or receive emails. To see how much space you have left, on a computer, go to google.com/settings/storage.
Clear space in Google Drive, Gmail, and Google Photos to make room for new items. To delete your Google Drive files, move them to the trash. Files in trash will be automatically deleted after 30 days. You can restore files from your trash before the 30-day time window. You can also permanently delete them to empty your trash. If you delete, restore, or permanently delete multiple files or folders
at once, it might take time for you to notice the changes. Delete files by size in Google Drive Permanently delete large emails in Gmail In the Search box, type has:attachment larger:10M. Click Search
How to clear space
Note: Replace "10" with a higher number to delete larger files.
Permanently delete emails in your Spam folder
- On the left, click Spam. If you don't see Spam, click More.
- At the top, click Delete all spam messages now. Or, select specific emails, then click Delete forever.
For other ways to search for email, learn about Gmail search operators.
Move photos & videos to Trash
Delete and recover files using Google One Storage Manager
- To delete single or multiple files that take up storage, use the Google One Storage Manager. Learn how to free up Google storage space.
- If you delete a file by mistake, learn how to recover a deleted file.
Remove hidden data from apps in Google Drive
Items that use storage space
Google Drive
Important: As of June 1, 2021, newly created Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, Drawings, Forms, or Jamboard files count toward storage. Files that already exist don't count toward storage unless they're modified on or after June 1, 2021. For Google Workspace and G Suite editions, this change goes into effect on February 1, 2022.
- Most files in your My Drive take
up space. For example:
- PDFs
- Images
- Videos
- Items in your Trash. Learn how to empty your trash.
Gmail
Messages and attachments, like items in your Spam and Trash folders, take up space.
Google Photos
- Photos and videos backed up in Original quality take up space.
- Photos and videos backed up in High quality (now named Storage saver) or Express quality after June 1, 2021. Any photos or videos you backed up in High quality or Express quality before June 1, 2021 will not count toward your Google Account storage. Learn more about Photos backup options.
Storage differences in Google Drive
Items in Google Drive for your computer take up a different amount of space than the same items at drive.google.com.
- Items in your Trash take up space in Google Drive, but aren't synced to your computer.
- Shared items will take up space on your computer, but not Google Drive.
- Items that are in multiple folders will be synced to all folders on your computer, taking up more space.
- If you only sync some folders to your computer, the storage on your computer will be less than what is shown on Google Drive.
- Your computer may show a slightly different file size than drive.google.com because of Mac or PC requirements.
Items that don't use storage space
Google Drive
- Files in "Shared with me" and shared drives don't use space. These files only take up space in the owner's Google Drive.
- Google Sites.
- Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, Forms, Jamboard, and Drawings files you create before June 1, 2021, and don't edit after that date.
Google Photos
What happens if you run out of space
Gmail
Important: As of June 1, 2021, if you remain inactive or go over your storage quota for 2 years or longer, all of your emails may be deleted.
You can’t send or receive messages. Messages sent to you are returned to the sender.
Google Drive
Important: As of June 1, 2021, if you remain inactive or go over your storage quota for 2 years or longer, all of your emails may be deleted.
You can’t sync or upload new files. You can’t create new files in Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, Drawings, Forms, and Jamboard. Until you reduce the amount of storage you use, neither you nor anyone else can edit or copy your affected files. Syncs stop between your computer's Google Drive folder and My Drive.
Google Photos
Important: As of June 1, 2021, if you remain inactive or go over your storage quota for 2 years or longer, all of your emails may be deleted.
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