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Date : Mon Apr 03 2023 14:15:03

Google Drive has suddenly decided to introduce a file cap - but you might 
never hit it

Date:
Mon, 03 Apr 2023 13:00:00 +0000

Description:
A new limit on Google Drive accounts has been introduced without warning, 
with some users set to be hit hard.

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Its official - cloud storage provider Google Drive has decided to add an 
official cap on the amount of files that can be stored on a single account. 

Per Ars Technica , the limit, set at five million files, started cropping up 
for some Google Drive users in February 2023, despite Google offering no 
warning that the cap was being introduced, and offering a notification that 
wasn't all that clear at explaining what the problem was: "The limit for the 
number of items, whether trashed or not, created by this account has been 
exceeded." 

Said notification has evolved since then, and now reportedly reads: "Error 
403: This account has exceeded the creation limit of 5 million items. To 
create more items, move items to the trash and delete them forever." Google 
Drive file cap 

As of last week, the notification for one Reddit user read "Please delete 2 
million files to continue using your Google Drive account." 

The new policy (which remains undocumented across all pricing pages) means 
Google Drive customers are being prevented from accessing the full extent of 
the storage theyve paid for. However, its worth noting that 5 million files, 
in real terms, is a pretty big allowance. 

For Google Drives 2TB offering - the highest personal plan available - the 
average file size across an account would have to be 400 kilobytes (KB). 
There are certainly instances where that may be the case - the storage of 
large amounts of record data, for example. But in the vast majority of cases, 
users shouldnt run up against the limit. Read more 

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Business users are even less likely to face issues with the limit. A 
spokesperson for Google told Ars Technica that the limit applied to "how many 
items one user can create in any Drive," rather than a blanket cap. 

Details were thin on the ground, but they also noted that the new limit is "a 
safeguard to prevent misuse of our system in a way that might impact the 
stability and safety of the system." Heres our list of the best collaboration 
tools right now



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Link to news story:
https://www.techradar.com/news/google-drive-has-suddenly-decided-to-introduce-
a-file-cap-but-you-might-never-hit-it


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