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by yread 2431 days ago
I dunno. It's really hard to find out an overview what are you actually using the storage for. I had google backup enabled and forgot about it - it's really not obvious to find the UI. Then I disabled it and deleted it - it was about 4GB and my used space went down by 400MB.

You also can't find out how much storage a folder on google drive is taking up. And don't even get me started on Photos.
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rishsharma 2431 days ago
Try using the Google Backup and Sync to download your contents. Then use your Finder/Explorer right click -> Get info options. I admit not ideal.

Also this may be helpful: https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/quota

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SAI_Peregrinus 2431 days ago
Better than Finder/Explorer would be something like QDirStat/WinDirStat to get a recursive size count, with graphical display.

https://github.com/shundhammer/qdirstat

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sliken 2431 days ago
That's nice for drive, but doesn't include any photos/video in photos.google.com.

So basically you have a single google storage pool that's reported at the bottom of the gmail.com interface. But now you can't use any of the google drive related tools to see what is consuming all your storage.

The photos.google.com is time based, so it's very hard to see what your largest files are.

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Alupis 2431 days ago
They have a page that gives you a full breakdown of how it's being used[1]

[1] https://one.google.com/

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yread 2431 days ago
Do you mean https://one.google.com/storage ? That gives just a general overview - photos are this much, drive this much.

How much space does this folder take? What is the largest video? How much space do old photos take? All trivial to answer on a local disk, impossible to do in Google's account.

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