HOT 226: Troubleshooting Google Drive Storage Space - Google Drive Storage Solutions
Hands-On Tech (Audio)
Leo Laporte
4.4 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 27 July 2025
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
On Hands-On Tech, Mikah Sargent helps Mike understand why his wife is still running out of space on her Google Drive after removing files and photos from it. Mikah explains why this could be happening and offers solutions to reclaim that precious storage space in the cloud.
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Host: Mikah Sargent
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on Hands on Tech, let's take a look at troubleshooting storage space in Google Drive, |
| 0:06.7 | Google Photos, and every other Google solution. Stay tuned for this episode of Hands on Tech. |
| 0:12.5 | This is Twitter. |
| 0:19.4 | Hello and welcome to Hands on Tech. |
| 0:24.0 | I am Micah Sargent. |
| 0:25.0 | And today I'm excited to answer this question. |
| 0:27.0 | It's something that I get a lot. |
| 0:30.1 | And it's time to finally provide the answer that you've been looking for. |
| 0:34.9 | If you have questions, by the way, for me, HOT at twit.tv, that's how you get in touch |
| 0:39.2 | with me. Again, I love that that rhymes. But I would love to hear from you. As I always encourage, |
| 0:45.8 | please do write in with all of the information you can possibly provide. You may feel like you're |
| 0:51.0 | saying too much, but I promise you it's worth having it all. |
| 0:55.8 | This week's question comes in from Mike, who asks, along with many of you, |
| 1:01.2 | Hello, I hope you can help me figure this out. |
| 1:03.6 | My wife's phone is telling her that her storage in Gmail, photos, etc. |
| 1:08.7 | is at 98% full. |
| 1:13.6 | And if it gets to full, she won't be able to save more photos, receive email, et cetera. So we have deleted all non-essential email and have backed up |
| 1:19.1 | all of her Google photos to my Synology NAS. After we did that, she went on a ruthless photo-deleting |
| 1:26.0 | binge and deleted more than 1,000 photos. |
| 1:29.3 | We don't even store them at full native resolution. |
| 1:31.3 | We use one of the reduced size options. |
| 1:34.3 | In any case, photos says that it can take up to 24 hours to see any storage space freed up after deleting things. |
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