How to expand Google Drive Storage Space – Learn how to expand and free the space on your Google drive account with free storage account and upgrade account
Google provides 15 GB of free drive space for storage and backup of your data. You can easily expand Google drive storage by upgrading to Google one subscription plans.
Based on your requirements for work and home, you can select the best suitable plan and expand the Google drive storage.
In this Digit Guider, you will learn, how to expand google drive storage through
How to Expand Google Drive Storage with Upgrade Plans
To use Google drive, you must log in to a Google account. If you don’t have an account, you can create a Google account for free.
Follow this step-by-step procedure on how to upgrade Google drive and expand the storage.
1. On your computer, open a browser and go to https://one.google.com
2. Click on the “Sign-In” option to log in to your Google account
3. Enter your Email Id and Click on “Next”
4. Enter Password and click on Next
5. If you have enabled 2 step verification to sign in, accept the sign in from your phone
6. Now you are successfully login to your Google One account
7. On Google One home page, click on Upgrade
8. Select the best plan as your requirements and click on the price to continue
9. Now you can pay using your credit card/ debit card. In some countries, the PayPal payment option is also available.
10. Click on “Add credit or debit card” to add a payment method to your Google account. Or if you have a gift card or promo code, click on “Redeem code” for payment
11. On Add credit or debit card page, update your card number, cardholder name, and billing address. After maintaining the required details, click on the Save button
Now complete your purchase to upgrade or expand Google Drive storage.
How to delete Files or Folder in Drive
By deleting the unwanted files or folders in your Google Drive, it helps you free up the storage. Refer below step by step procedure on how to delete files and folders on the drive.
1. On your Google drive, select a file or folder to delete
2. Right-click and choose the option “Remove”
3. A notification will be displayed as “File moved to trash”.
Tip: Removing or deleting the files and folder that doesn’t free up drive space until your delete the files and folder from the trash.
How to Delete Trashed Items
By default, all the items in Google Drive are automatically deleted after 30 days. However, you can manually delete all the items in the Trash folder.
1. Sign in to Google Drive
2. Click on the option “Trash”
3. Click on the option “Empty Trash” to delete all the items from Trash,
or to delete a single item, select the item and right-click and then click on delete forever.
Based on the size of items that you have deleted, the same size of storage will be added to Google Drive.
Note: Once files are deleted, you won’t be able to restore them in Drive.
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