{"id":73780,"date":"2023-04-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-04T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/joggingvideo.com\/tech\/services-and-software\/google-rescinds-5-million-item-limit-on-drive\/"},"modified":"2023-04-04T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-04-04T00:00:00","slug":"google-rescinds-5-million-item-limit-on-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1800birks4u.com\/tech\/services-and-software\/google-rescinds-5-million-item-limit-on-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Rescinds 5 Million Item Limit on Drive"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Google Drive no longer has a 5 million item limit<\/a><\/span>, a Google Workspace spokesperson said Monday evening.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The about-face comes after people began complaining on Reddit and Google’s own support site of a previously unknown 5 million item cap on Drive. When people found out that Google deliberately implemented the change, they were particularly irked by the lack of communication from the search giant. Those with a large number of files in their Drive account were suddenly unable to upload new items or create additional folders, forcing some to consider deleting or consolidating millions of items. <\/p>\n

The Google Drive team has since updated people on the situation via Twitter, saying that though the change affected only a small number of users, the team is now instead looking at alternate methods for optimization. <\/p>\n

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We recently rolled out a system update to Drive item limits to preserve stability and optimize performance. While this impacted only a small number of people, we are rolling back this change as we explore alternate approaches to ensure a great experience for all.<\/p>\n
\u2014 Google Drive (@googledrive) April 4, 2023<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n
The team also tweeted that in the future it would do a better job communicating changes. <\/p>\n
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If we need to make changes, we will communicate them to users in advance.<\/p>\n
\u2014 Google Drive (@googledrive) April 4, 2023<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n
Google declined to comment. <\/p>\n
When Google began rolling out a Drive limit in February, it went against industry norms. Microsoft’s OneDrive, Dropbox, Amazon Photos and Box don’t have item limits. The limit also meant that regardless of whether a person paid for 2TB or 30TB of storage, given enough small files, they’d hit the item limit well before reaching their storage cap.<\/p>\n
The competitive\u00a0cloud storage market was worth $78.6 billion in 2022, according to Markets and Markets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Google Drive no longer has a 5 million item limit, a Google Workspace spokesperson said Monday evening.\u00a0 The about-face comes after people began complaining on Reddit and Google’s own support site of a previously unknown 5 million item cap on Drive. When people found out that Google deliberately implemented the change, they were particularly irked […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":189,"featured_media":73780,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3116],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1800birks4u.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73780"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1800birks4u.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1800birks4u.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1800birks4u.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/189"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1800birks4u.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1800birks4u.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1800birks4u.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1800birks4u.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1800birks4u.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1800birks4u.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}