[ltiger]

Clever. But Gmail and Google Drive share the exact same 15 gb storage quota. If a user has 10 gigs of photos in their Gmail and runs this script, it'll create another 10 gb of files in their Drive.

Instead of saving space, this script doubles their storage usage to 20 gb, breaking through the 15 gb free tier and forcing them to buy a Google One subscription.

That’s one of the reasons this desktop app exists, it streams the files straight to your hard drive so you can avoid this

[KomoD]

> breaking through the 15 gb free tier and forcing them to buy a Google One subscription

Which is like... $2 for 100GB and you can cancel immediately after, or if you get the same offer I got: $0.50.

$27 in savings and 100GB of storage, sounds like a good deal to me!

[benzofuran]

I'm stuck enough in the gecosystem that the storage is of small worry there but good point. It's a cute idea for the main topic - I saw some pictures I'd forgotten about for 20 years so that was fun.