Every day, new technologies emerge and they bring new innovations and benefits that power the growth of businesses and individuals. One such technology is the cloud.
Cloud technology offers tremendous benefits that are usually outside the reach of small businesses and individuals. Cloud is flexible, scalable and easy to use & set up. This is why an increasing number of businesses are moving to the cloud to stay lean, competitive and benefit from it.
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Any data stored on the cloud is cloned and backed-up in real-time on multiple cloud servers to prevent the next data disaster. Your access to the cloud is secured with industry-standard file encryption technology and 2-Factor Authentication to confirm your identity. Moreover, the cloud enables businesses to provide “work from home” opportunities. With the cloud, working from home is not only possible, but also economical. It completely eliminates the need to set up physical offices, helping small businesses to reduce costs and compete with big competitors.
If you’re using the cloud storage drives to access and share your files, at one point in time, you might have run into low storage problems. Let’s discuss the top 7 ways to clean up your cloud storage drive and make room for new files.
Method 1: Empty the Trash Folder
The Trash or Bin folder in your cloud storage drive is equivalent to the Recycle Bin in Windows. All the deleted files are stored in the Trash folder for an infinite time or for a limited period of time depending on the policy of your cloud service provider. The actual time may vary from one cloud service to another.
In the case of Microsoft OneDrive, your deleted files remain in the Trash folder for a period of 30 days for normal users, and for a period of 93 days for Work or School accounts. After the expiry of this period, any files in the Trash folder are automatically permanently deleted.
Much like OneDrive, any files in your Google Drive Trash folder are automatically deleted after 30 days.
You can reclaim your lost storage by deleting the files in your Trash. This will help you free-up some storage.
Method 2: Change File Ownership
Did you know that you can also free-up your cloud storage by changing the ownership of your files and folders? This can be a handy option if you don’t have adequate storage but don’t want to upgrade the plan or delete any files either. You can simply transfer the ownership of your files and folders to one of your colleagues or friends, and the file or folder will start counting against their storage quota. Your cloud service provider will instantly release the space for that file or folder.
Note: File ownerships are not transferred instantly. When you change the owner of a file or folder, the new owner will be notified by an email. Until they approve the new ownership, the file or folder will still be counted against your storage quota.
Microsoft OneDrive
Google Drive
Dropbox
Method 3: Delete Duplicate Files
Duplicate files are identical versions of the original files. Re-uploading the same files multiple times can cause duplication. Not just that, if a single cloud account is connected with multiple devices such as PCs, Mac, tablet, phone, etc. it can cause a lot of duplicate files. This is particularly true when a copy of the original file is stored on both the phone and PC. Thankfully, deleting duplicate files is no more difficult. A popular third-party tool Cloud Duplicate Finder does this job over-the-cloud without needing to download a single file.
Method 4: Delete Email Attachments (Google Drive)
If you’re using Google Drive, there’s a catch. Everything in your Google account, including your email attachments, are counted against your storage quota. Deleting email attachments, especially older and larger ones, will help you free-up precious storage.
Gmail
Method 5: Find & Delete Large Files
Microsoft OneDrive
OneDrive has an automated mechanism that lets you deal with this problem. OneDrive shows a list of all larger files in your account so that you can manually select and delete them all at once.
Google Drive
Google Drive has a similar functionality.
Dropbox
If you’re using Dropbox, unfortunately, there’s no in-house functionality to identify larger files. However, there are some workarounds.
Method 6: Remove Older File Versions (OneDrive)
If you’re working on your OneDrive or Google Drive files intensively, you can delete the older versions from the Version History.
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Method 7: Compress the File
Compressing files will take less space. File compression is the process of re-encoding a file to reduce its size. Download all the large files to your PC, delete them from the cloud server, and then compress these files using a free tool called 7-Zip File Manager. After compressing your files, re-upload them again.
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