Steps to free up Google Drive space

Google Drive is collecting all data of Mail, Google Photos, Docs, Sheets . stored on the system and this has caused the overall storage capacity to be significantly reduced. If you don't allocate space well, the free 15GB on Google Drive doesn't seem to be enough for all.

In this case, you'll have to choose whether to purchase additional storage plans from Google or free up regular storage for Drive. In case you choose to free up space, the deleted data will be lost forever to make room for new data on the system. This approach will cost you to get new storage space. If your computer has a lot of space, you can temporarily save it to your computer to upload new data to your computer.

Step 1: Go to the homepage of Google Drive and log in to the account that needs to free up space.

At the main interface of Google Drive, select Storage to see all the data being stored in the cloud.

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Step 2: At this point, all Google Drive data will appear and you should proceed to filter the important and unimportant data to prepare for deletion. To select multiple documents at once on Google Drive, hold down Ctrl + Left click. In case you want to select all, press Ctrl + A or press Shift + Left click (1) to select in the form of a list.

Next, select the Recycle Bin (2) to put the data in the trash and delete it.

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Step 3: After deleting data, the space on Google Drive will not be freed if you do not delete it in the Trash. To delete data permanently, select the Recycle Bin item.

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Step 4: Next, select Empty Recycle Bin to delete all data in the recycle bin and free up Drive space. When you clear the recycle bin, all data will be deleted and you will not be able to recover. So before you delete, please consider.

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So you have finished freeing up space on Google Drive, the system has freed up a large amount of space on Drive for you.

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In this article, Tipsmake showed you how to free up space on Google Drive. Have a nice day!

Isabella Humphrey

Update 12 December 2021