Google Drive will now only allow uploading or creating five million files regardless of whether you purchase additional storage.
Google has quietly set limits on the number of files you can create and save to Google Drive and has confirmed to the Daily Mail that you can save five million files using Drive regardless of whether you purchase additional storage.
To clarify to be clear, the 5 million file limit only applies to the number of files created by you make in Drive. It doesn’t apply to the entire number of files that you share with your Drive. This means you’ll be able to have more than 5 million files within the system, as they’re not exclusively made by you.
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Google spokesperson Ross Richendrfer says the change is to “maintain strong performance and reliability” and also aid in preventing “misuse” of the company’s systems. If you exceed an amount that is beyond your limits, Richendrfer states you’ll be notified and advises you to contact Google support to resolve the problem.
Although 5 million files may appear to be an inordinate amount of files one person can upload, however, some users have hit the limit. In a Reddit Post that was one user who has 7 million files stored in Google Drive declares that Google abruptly stopped users from creating any new file in February, despite not being able to exceed the storage limit of 2TB that users pay. Additionally, others have posted on Google’s Issue Tracker site have reported that they’ve experienced the file limit at the same time, and initially had the belief that it was due to an issue.
In the Reddit post, the file cap is that anyone who has 2TB of storage and an average file size of more than 400KB will hit their limit on files before they end up running out of storage. That is, certain users could be paying for more storage space than they actually use unless they choose to easily compress files in zip folders.
