Google Drive now limits users to 5 million items. A Google Workspace spokesperson confirmed the change in an email Monday evening.
This comes when a Reddit user posted a thread on Monday saying Google has it Impose a limit of 5 million items on the people engine accounts, without notice. A Reddit user said that people started getting “Upload Failed” notifications around February 14th for almost any action, including creating a new empty folder.
“To maintain strong performance and reliability, the number of individual users is limited to 5 million items created in Google Drive,” said a Google Workspace spokesperson. The spokesperson went on to say that this change only affects a small number of users and recommends deleting some files.
For those with a large number of files, suddenly being asked to remove millions of items is a huge inconvenience, as mentioned in Report generated on Google Issue Tracker. One user in the UK said their animal health business had been hit hard by the change. It has caused significant disruption to “tens of thousands of users in practice and their work on a daily basis.”
Others wonder why, if there is such a hard limit, Google hasn’t provided any guidelines. This change might not roll out smoothly either, as some users say that even with a million items, they can’t create a new folder.
For many users and businesses, online file storage is often more convenient than local storage. Overall The cloud storage market was valued at $78.6 billion In 2022, according to markets and markets.
People can upgrade their Google One accounts, the service that includes Gmail, Drive, YouTube, and more, to get more storage. This storage can be up to 30 terabytes. Google One It competes with Microsoft OneDrive, Dropbox, Amazon Cloud Drive, and Box. Of course, Google One integrates better with Google Workspace apps like Docs and Sheets.
Some of Google One’s competitors also have file limits. OneDrive for Business has a limit 50,000 items per volume. But it is uncertain whether Microsoft generally has a cap on the number of items. Dropbox, on the other hand, He says there is no limit.
Representatives for Microsoft, Amazon and Box did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
It seems that regardless of the person Google One Plan, whether it’s 100GB or 20TB, the 5 million item limit applies. As a result, users with small file sizes are more likely to hit the item limit before they reach the storage limit: someone on a 2TB plan would have to exceed the average file size of 400KB for the storage to run out before they reach the item limit. So, unless a person is storing large files such as photos and videos on their drive, some are likely to pay for more space than they can actually use.
Alternatively, other Reddit users have pointed out that compressing files in a .ZIP folder ends up as a single item.
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