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What are some things I can do to clean-up my Google Drive?
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The following are some actions that can be taken in Google Drive to find and delete files.
NOTE:
Files deleted by you will be moved to Trash. Files in Trash will be automatically deleted after 30 days.
It is recommended that you DO NOT empty your Trash manually, but let Google delete the files after 30 days. Files permanently deleted (either after 30 days in Trash or when manually emptying Trash), are not recoverable.
University Policy 605.3
regarding Retention, Disposition, and Security of University Records should be reviewed prior to deleting data.
University Archives
provides additional guidance on this topic.
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Actions to be Taken/Additional Resources
Large files that are no longer needed
While in your Google Drive, click
Storage
in the lower left corner
You will see a page with a breakdown of storage for your overall Google account by Gmail, Drive, and Photos
Beneath the storage breakdown, you will see
Files using Drive storage
listed by size
If the list has smallest sized files on top, click the arrow next to
Storage used
to be pointing down
To delete a file, right click and select
Remove
Move department, research, and committee collaboration files to Shared drives
See these
FAQs
for information about Google Shared drives
See this
FAQ
for information about moving files to Google Shared drives
Clean-up previous versions of active files
See this
Google help page
for more information
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Created
Tue 9/5/23 1:57 PM
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Fri 2/9/24 8:36 AM