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I'm not a Google employee, but as far as I'm aware, there isn't one, and frankly, at this point I have to wonder if the lack of such a feature is a malicious wa
by CarelessExpert 6y ago
I'm not a Google employee, but as far as I'm aware, there isn't one, and frankly, at this point I have to wonder if the lack of such a feature is a malicious way of preventing users from managing their storage utilization.
I've also had to resort to using rclone for this, which is absurd.
P.S. And don't forget: the data in the Trash folder counts against your quota. So if you use rclone to get folder sizes and start deleting things, you better be sure to empty the trash.
And that gets very difficult if the Trash has a lot of items in it, as the web interface will only delete a limited number of items from the Trash at a time.
As a result, you might also want to use rclone to delete permanently and bypass the Trash entirely.
Once again, while I tend to assume incompetence over malice for most things, in this case, you really gotta wonder...
- deepl_derber 6y agoTrash is now auto-emptied. You can also view objects by the quota they consume at https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/quota https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/quota
- CarelessExpert 6y ago> Trash is now auto-emptied. After 30 days, IIRC. That's not helpful if you're trying to manage quota now, and certainly isn't an excuse for the truly astonishingly bad UX around the trash bin. > You can also view objects by the quota they consume at https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/quota https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/quota Objects as in individual files. It does not show you which folders are, in aggregate, consuming large amounts of storage. As a result this is utterly useless unless your quota is taken up by a few large objects. I legitimately have no idea what use case they thought they were addressing when they built that view.
- deepl_derber 6y agoI think the UX around the trash bin is pretty good and I've always found the quota pane useful.