{"id":92,"date":"2016-01-20T15:43:55","date_gmt":"2016-01-20T15:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stcleaner.com\/blog\/?p=92"},"modified":"2018-11-02T13:08:08","modified_gmt":"2018-11-02T13:08:08","slug":"clean-up-google-drive-from-junk-or-unwanted-files-to-get-more-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stcleaner.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/20\/clean-up-google-drive-from-junk-or-unwanted-files-to-get-more-space\/","title":{"rendered":"Clean up Google Drive from Junk or Unwanted Files to Get More Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Even though <strong>15GB<\/strong> may look like a massive amount of storage space, it is worth noting that this storage limit is spread across different areas of your <strong>Google<\/strong> account including email attachments (images, zip archives), photos uploaded on <strong>Google+<\/strong> as well as the actual <strong>Google Drive<\/strong> documents. And so it may fill up at times, leading to disorganization and duplication of your files. There will be multiple copies of the same file, yet with different names.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Cloud Scan feature of <strong>Clone Files Checker<\/strong> allows to easily clean up all duplicates from <strong>Google Drive<\/strong> in an absolutely fast and secure manner. So don&#8217;t waste any more time and fix the duplicates before they completely take over your <strong>Google Drive<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.clonefileschecker.com\/download\/ibx\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1835 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stcleaner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Windows.jpg\" alt=\"Windows\" width=\"235\" height=\"59\" \/><\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.clonefileschecker.com\/download\/mbx\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1836 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stcleaner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Mac.jpg\" alt=\"Mac\" width=\"198\" height=\"61\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Clone Files Checker<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for <\/span><b>Windows<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><b>Mac<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is a verified software<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Compatible with Windows 10\/ 8.1\/ 8\/ 7 and Mac OS 10.10 onwards<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">By clicking to download, you agree to these <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.clonefileschecker.com\/terms.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Terms<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">See <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.clonefileschecker.com\/feature.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Windows Features<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> | <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.clonefileschecker.com\/features-mac.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mac Features<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><b>Benefits of regular clean-up<\/b><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recover storage space lost to duplicate documents and files.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Prevent surpassing your cloud storage limit.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You won\u2019t have to upgrade your storage plan and pay a single penny.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Google Drive desktop app automatically synchronizes your documents. By deleting duplicates, you save the bandwidth and Internet data.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The powerful scan algorithms detect various file types such as Google Documents, Google Spreadsheets, Google Presentations, and many more.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><b>Cleaning Up Google Drive<\/b><\/h3>\n<h4><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Step # 1: Download Google Drive<\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Google Drive app is essential as it synchronizes your online data straight on to your local computer. Besides, it helps you access your online data as easily as you access, edit and share your local documents and files.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Step # 2: Download Clone Files Checker<\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s a reliable duplicate cleaning tool from Sorcim. Download, install and run Clone Files Checker.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Step # 3: Customize Scan<\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On the left side of Clone Files Checker interface, click on the \u201cAdd\u201d button and manually locate the \u201cGoogle Drive\u201d folder.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Further, select the \u201cAll files\u201d option to enable searching across documents, spreadsheets, presentations and other file types. By selecting \u201cCustom\u201d option you can specify file types of your choice, thereby generating specific results.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Start the scan by clicking on the \u201cScan\u201d button.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Step # 4: Take an Action<\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Once the scan is complete, the results shall appear on your screen. You\u2019ll have to choose whether to perform the Quick-Fix operation which automatically performs the selected action on all duplicate files irrespective of their file type, or you wish to go through the duplicates\u2019 list and select items manually.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are several choices. You can either move your duplicates (newer \/ older versions of the files) to Recycle Bin, a specific folder on your hard disk, or permanently delete them \u2013 with or without backup.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In case of a backup being created, the same can be restored through History tab &gt; (Select an earlier scan) &gt; Restore button &gt; Select files to restore using checkbox &gt; Restore. You can delete old backups, if they\u2019re no longer required.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even though 15GB may look like a massive amount of storage space, it is worth noting that this storage limit is spread across different areas of your Google account including email attachments (images, zip archives), photos uploaded on Google+ as well as the actual Google Drive documents. And so it may fill up at times, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[106,109,107,108,105],"class_list":["post-92","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solutions","tag-clean-google-drive-from-junk","tag-clean-google-drive-unwanted-files","tag-clean-junk-google-drive","tag-clean-unwanted-files-google-drive","tag-clean-up-google-drive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stcleaner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stcleaner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stcleaner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stcleaner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stcleaner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.stcleaner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1877,"href":"https:\/\/www.stcleaner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions\/1877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stcleaner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stcleaner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stcleaner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}