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Shocked by this and having a Workspace account in same condition (read-only state, not in deletion yet) I've deleted some terrabytes of my (redundand) backups o

Shocked by this and having a Workspace account in same condition (read-only state, not in deletion yet) I've deleted some terrabytes of my (redundand) backups on Google Drive with many thousands files. But the emptying the trash/bin is horrible UX wise. You can only trash the files visible there. It seems the easiest way to empty the trash completely is to configure rclone and run this command (so emptying trash with API): https://rclone.org/drive/#emptying-trash https://rclone.org/drive/#emptying-trash Hope this is helpful for anybody else here.

crazygringo 3y ago
> You can only trash the files visible there. There's a dedicated "empty trash" button at the top of the web interface. I've successfully emptied the trash of many thousands of files using it -- it doesn't have anything to do with visibility. A couple times I had to use it twice to fully empty, but it still deleted way more than anything visible. Massive bulk operations just sometimes seem to get killed (timeouts?), same as producing massive zip archives of thousands of files for download. But I can imagine rclone might work more consistently by performing tons of individual delete operations instead of Drive performing a single massive operation.
- therealmarv 3y ago
  well, maybe the "empty trash" button works as intended (not sure because I see new files showing up in trash). It can be I was not patient enough. The rclone command finishes after a second but also only queues files internally at Google Drive to be fully deleted (so maybe it works the same as empty trash button)
  - therealmarv 3y ago
    small update: I'm trashing 16TB with many small files. That seems like a multi week operation oO
  - crazygringo 3y ago
    Yeah it's weird that it doesn't have a progress indicator or anything. But if you keep reloading the trash page in your browser, you'll see that files keep disappearing over the course of minutes.

crazygringo 3y ago

> You can only trash the files visible there. There's a dedicated "empty trash" button at the top of the web interface. I've successfully emptied the trash of many thousands of files using it -- it doesn't have anything to do with visibility. A couple times I had to use it twice to fully empty, but it still deleted way more than anything visible. Massive bulk operations just sometimes seem to get killed (timeouts?), same as producing massive zip archives of thousands of files for download. But I can imagine rclone might work more consistently by performing tons of individual delete operations instead of Drive performing a single massive operation.

therealmarv 3y ago
well, maybe the "empty trash" button works as intended (not sure because I see new files showing up in trash). It can be I was not patient enough. The rclone command finishes after a second but also only queues files internally at Google Drive to be fully deleted (so maybe it works the same as empty trash button)
- therealmarv 3y ago
  small update: I'm trashing 16TB with many small files. That seems like a multi week operation oO
- crazygringo 3y ago
  Yeah it's weird that it doesn't have a progress indicator or anything. But if you keep reloading the trash page in your browser, you'll see that files keep disappearing over the course of minutes.