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Google Workspace is an essential tool for thousands of businesses worldwide, ranging from accounts with just a few users to large enterprises with thousands or tens of thousands of sub-accounts. Administration becomes a significant burden with any service as you add more users.  While Google offers unlimited storage to their enterprise customers, that doesn’t mean…

Google Drive is an excellent cloud storage system, and you can use it in many different ways. Some people use it to transfer files in bulk from one location to another. You upload them all to Google Drive on one device, then download them on another. It skips needing to put all that data on…

Google Drive has a ton of utility, but sometimes it has just as many ways for downloads to fail as there are use cases. In some cases, Google is excellent at documenting errors and giving you options for dealing with them. Other times, it feels like your error could be about anything. Unfortunately, the “failed-forbidden”…

Shortcuts are a powerful tool for organization, navigation, and managing the clutter of your Google Drive.  They’re easy to create, but you can use advanced tricks to improve them. There are also some quirks with how Google handles shortcuts to files or folders when those files or folders are located in shared drives or have…

Google gives everyone with a Google account 15 GB of storage by default. You can expand this limitation through various means and take action to reduce your space usage. Still, the fact remains that a cap is always going to be there outside of a few specific, enterprise-level situations. What happens when your Google Drive (or general Google…

Google Drive is a fantastic tool for file storage and collaboration. One of the best features is the ability to upload a file to your Drive and share it with others. Those other people have the file in their Drive, but it doesn’t take up any of their storage quotas; they can access and edit…

Google is notorious for making changes to systems, splitting them and merging them, keeping legacy versions around, and changing their plans to retire some things. They occasionally retire plans while many people still love and use them. Google Drive is no different, with storage available through Google Drive, Google One, Google Workspace, G Suite, Google…

Did you know that before the mid-1980s, when you deleted a file, it was gone for good? There was no way to recover it. The modern version of a trash can or recycle bin, which stores deleted files until a time limit comes up or you empty it yourself, didn’t exist until it was invented…

Google Drive is an excellent application for storing, transferring, and managing files in both a personal and a business setting. However, it’s not always immediately clear how to perform various tasks you believe you should be able to do. Sometimes, the functionality exists but is named strangely or hidden in menus. Other times, something you…

Google Drive and Google Photos are both excellent options to store and sync photos between devices in a central account. But which is better? You might think it’s the app specifically designed for photos, but Google Photos has limitations that are worth considering.  Google did not tie Google Photos to Google Drive initially. In the…

Sometimes, it seems like cloud storage is infinite. With millions of servers and exabytes of storage space between them, any person should have access to more space than they would ever need.  Even businesses generating terabytes of data can find cloud-based storage solutions. Unfortunately, cloud storage platforms like Google Drive still have caps on the…

One of the best use cases for Google Drive is using it as a single collaborative storage location for a business. You have multiple employees – maybe two or three, perhaps a few dozen, maybe an entire department or organization – and they all need access to your organization’s Drive.  Furthermore, some of your employees…

Google Drive is a fantastic way to leverage the cloud to store your files, from small text documents to photos to large video files and other massive projects. There’s just one problem: managing large files with Google Drive can be a huge hassle! Uploads fail, downloads take forever, and you may need to wait for…

Apple is often regarded as an isolated ecosystem of apps, with minimal cross-over with PC programs. The reason is due, in part, to Apple creating their own versions of many popular features offered by PC companies. Apple even offers cloud storage through its iCloud system. However, iCloud isn’t necessarily the best option for cloud storage on…

While it may not seem like it, there’s technically limited storage space available to internet users.  There are only so many hard drives and only so much media, and while the amount available is incomprehensibly vast, the amount any one person can access is comparatively tiny. Take, for example, your Google Drive. Cloud storage is…

Google Drive is one of the most helpful cloud storage systems available, but it has one significant limitation: it limits how much space you have to store files. Moreover, that space limit is tied to your overall Google Account, not just to Drive. That means attachments in your email, files made in Google Docs, Google…

This article shows multiple ways to view your files & folders by size in Google Drive. It also covers how to see specific types of files by size and sort them.

This article shows multiple ways to create folders in Google Drive and provides shortcuts and tips to have you creating and organizing folders like a pro.

This post showcases Google Drive apps that will extend Google Drive's functionality and increase your efficiency in Google Drive.

It is now easy to find and remove empty folders in Google Drive.

How to view your Google Drive Folder Size with a simple online tool. View the size of your largest folders, empty folders or browse your folders by size.

Is Google going to automatically replace files in multiple locations with shortcuts? I go into detail explaining what this really means.

This article discusses multiple tactics to reduce your Google Drive storage usage. Find what is taking up space in Google Drive and eliminate the cruft.