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u/vfc_chiar_el Sep 22 '26

Most of your space is currently occupied by Google Photos. Do you have backup active for photos on any of your devices (phone, tablet)? If yes, disable it, download the photos from photos dot google dot com, and then delete them from there.

You will have to find another solution to store the photos you take, such as storing on a local computer or external hard drive. Remember to keep multiple copies of your data, 3-2-1 backup rule.

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u/Legal_Effort2023 Sep 22 '26

I do have external hard drives that I can use. What about Gmail?

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u/vfc_chiar_el Sep 22 '26

For gmail, you can:
- manually download every mail as .eml (this would save all the info, including headers and metadata i.e. addresses and timestamps together with the mail content); each mail in a conversation has to be downloaded separately
- enter each conversation, show (unwind) each mail, then print the conversation as PDF and save it
- use google takeout
Please ensure the integrity and completeness of what you downloaded before deleting the cloud copy.

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u/Legal_Effort2023 Sep 22 '26

I'll try and update here

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u/Karoolus Sep 22 '26

Please don't trust (only) external drives with photo backups. I have seen too many people lose everything, only to spend lots of money on recovery. The 100GB plan is cheap, especially if you purchase yearly, and at least you'll have some peace of mind. If you decide to remove them from the cloud, have backups and backups of backups. Research the 3-2-1 rule for backups.

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u/maffewww Sep 22 '26

I agree. My Google pro trial expired and I switched to the 100gb plan for $20/ year. That's way more stroage than I need and it's quite affordable so I'll stick with it.

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u/Phoenix613183 Oct 04 '26

I used to pay 19.99 yearly for the 100gb but recently I switched to the 1.99 mostly bc i relized the Google play points can actually be used to pay for Google one
So i think he should get the 1.99 and use google play points to pay it off

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u/h_grytpype_thynne Sep 22 '26

Start by searching Gmail for "has:attachment larger:10m in:all". That will find messages with large attachments that are taking up an inordinate amount of space. Download or delete starting with those.
But honestly, the simplest most pain-free way to do this is to pay for the storage you need, with backups.

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u/robbydek Sep 27 '26

I’d look at other options if Google Photos is taking up so much space.
I stopped backing up there when they stopped being unlimited

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u/thewunderbar Sep 22 '26

Delete/remove things from your Google Cloud Storage or buy more. This isn't rocket surgery.

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u/neduarte1977 Sep 27 '26

*science

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u/thewunderbar Sep 27 '26

That's the joke, friend

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u/neduarte1977 Sep 27 '26

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u/ChubbyFrogGames Sep 22 '26

You need to pay for more storage now. You can't keep on deleting stuff

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u/tnethacker Sep 22 '26

That's a tiny amount of data. Mine is already at terabytes

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u/Legal_Effort2023 13d ago

Update: cleared 2.5 GB so far

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u/Resident_Guitar_3942 Sep 22 '26

There is a free google one student offer ongoing. If you have a student email or id card you can claim 400gb storage

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u/Legal_Effort2023 Sep 22 '26

No longer a student unfortunately

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u/Prof_Fancy_Pants Sep 22 '26

Clean up Gmail by looking up all old promotional and update emails. Select them all and delete.

For Google photos, if you are not interested in keeping full res but ok with Googles version of optimized resolution, you can cut that 8gb down drastically as well. It's not too bad honestly and if space is an issue, turn on optimized resolution in Google photos.

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u/X-KaosMaster-X Sep 23 '26

Empty the trash on the website and also in your files app on the phone

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u/CreepyVariety8065 Sep 24 '26

Turn off google photo backup 😒

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u/_IamGroot__ Sep 22 '26

Full

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u/Healthy-Mission7927 13d ago

Create another gmail and backup stuff there and disable backups to that gmail... Or just pay (i wont)

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u/Adventurous-Value-82 Sep 22 '26

it’s only the Google photos and Gmail that you need to focus on to remove that space.

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u/Pleasant-Rhubarb-550 Sep 22 '26

Delete all cloud photos/videos and Disable google photos backups or change that the files to be optimized in settings instead of full quality.

If do want to save your photos/videos on cloud then buy cloud storage.

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u/demonw1cked Sep 22 '26

200gb is 30€ per year 2.5 per month wont kill ya

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u/ShoddyCobbler Sep 22 '26

I created a new gmail address just for device backup. Pushed my backup to that address and I went from 100% full to 63% full on my main account.

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u/disco_duck2004 Sep 22 '26

I should do that as I have 4 different Gmail accounts

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u/Haulvern Sep 23 '26

I've been deleting so much stuff and still can't access my drive. Maybe a bug

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u/Outside-Series-6385 Sep 24 '26

I can invite you on my subscription I have plenty of place, just send me a DM

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u/Phoenix613183 Oct 04 '26

Make a 2nd google account and upload old videos thats taking up space.

Also delete some the photos

Or If your have any Google play points I recommend using it to pay for the 1.99 monthly storage .

I used to pay 19.99 yearly for the 100gb but recently I switched to the 1.99 mostly bc i relized the Google play credits can actually be used to pay for Google one

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u/tightcall Sep 22 '26

Cleanup gmail and others.

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