If you thought the memory problems were only on your computer or smartphone you were wrong, now you have to worry about not to saturate your cloud memory on the online services, such as Google's that of.
Ever since Google has removed the possibility of loading all the photos we want on Google photos in an unlimited and free way, the new shots are inexorably to consume those few and restored 15 GB of Google One space, which are also shared with other services: Google Drive and even Gmail.So if you have come to saturate the cloud memory there are two possible paths:
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How to see how much space we have available
The first thing to do is to install the Google One application (download from the Play Store).Google One is the name that the Californian company has given to its cloud service for consumers.Every time you record a new email address, a new account, you automatically have 15GB of virtual space on Google One and through this you can manage it or increase it for a fee
What is Google One, the subscription to get space at will
How to free space on Google Drive
How to free space on Google Photo
On the Google photo application:
In the last instance, the advice is to check in the collection section that the backup of photos and WhatsApp files on Google Photos is not active, so you will avoid both finding unnecessary images and to waste space.
How to free space on Gmail
On Gmail the advice to free space quickly are as follows:
A further advice is to identify the emails with the heaviest attached files and to find them it is sufficient to use the advanced search filters.It is sufficient to type in the search bar:
where 10m is for the weight in megabyte;So if you want to expand the search to less heavy files you can also write 5M to find all the emails with attachments with a higher weight of 5 megabytes.The advice is usually to proceed for step starting from a very high number to go down, to operate a more punctual selection.
Alternatively you can search for a total weight of the email indicating this time a value in bytes, for example:
where 30.000.000 stands for about 30 MB in weight, obviously in the calculation it includes both the text contained in the email and the attached files overall.
How to free space on Drive, Gmail and photos in one fell swoop
The fastest and quick method to free space on the Google cloud is using the Google One application or site.In both cases, in fact, there is a dedicated section entitled "Retroduce your space" which with a few simple clicks allows you to quickly delete the obsolete files.
Once the section is opened, in fact, a series of suggestions from Google will appear to eliminate the emails in the basket, those present in the spam folder or even the emails containing large attachments, which are the ones that then erode the space, or iLarge files on Drive.
By making all the various steps it will also be possible to free several GB of space and thus be able to continue to accumulate more useful data.
Subscription upgrade:
Obviously the space purchased is a sort of limit roof, they do not accumulate over time so if you buy the 100 GB plan every month you will have a maximum roof of 100 GB and not increased.
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