Be careful, the storage capacity rules on Google Photos and Google Drive change in June

 

Be careful, the storage capacity rules on Google Photos and Google Drive change in June 

Google is changing the way it verifies its stored documents from June 1, 2021. This change will specifically affect Google Drive and Google Photos.

Do you utilize Google administrations to store photographs and records? Know that as of June 1, 2021, the facilitating rules for the US business will change. On that date, Google will change the manner in which it ascertains the inhabitance of the extra room it makes accessible to Internet clients (15 GB for every record with the free arrangement). Web clients will be the washouts. 

In particular, the unlimited storage of Google Photos closes on June 1, 2021. Prior to this date, Google had not taken into account, in its calculation, the weight of the "high quality" images, this means that only shots below 16 megapixels were not counted. Pictures that this amount were counted in storage (unique photos)..

 

For the following services (Google Docs, Sheets et Slides, Drawings, Forms et Jamboard), there is also a similar turn of events. Later, in other words, starting June 1, 2021, the space for these services will be counted in the storage capacity on your Google account. We must remember that these 15 GB, which are freely available for each account, are global storage, shared between Gmail, Google Photos and Google Drive.. 

These developments were reported on November 11, 2020 by Google, more than half a year before the deadline. Web clients who haven't moved too much archives to the cloud don't have to worry - it's not easy to fill in the 15GB size - especially since Google has indicated that it will be excluded from account files already stored before June 1. 

A viewed file will not necessarily be counted, but if it is modified, it will be counted.

Be careful, though: there are a few subtleties that you should be aware of. If Google promises that it won't count documents already created and stored in its cloud, it will count when modified, one way or another, on or after June 1. Obviously viewing a file that is already in the cloud before June 1 will not have any impact on the account.

Google provides a support page to identify instances where files fall within the scope of its accounts.

Consequently, the company states that the weight of most files stored in Google Drive, including PDF documents, images and videos, has already been taken into account. The rule therefore now extends to files created or modified across its suite of office software 

Internet users who are about to exceed their storage quota or are likely to exceed it very soon have three possibilities.

1 - Sort their contents to remove unnecessary or large files (or simply restore them for storage locally, i.e. on their computers). It can also be a good opportunity to clean up your cloud.

2- Consider leaving Google to check if the grass is not greener elsewhere, which anyway is not a simple solution (moving the entire cloud, especially when you have your tendencies, is not a simple matter)

3- The last track that Google calls on customers to buy additional inventory..