Google Drive not working problem

Cloud storage services like Google Drive offer storage space to help you back up and access your files from any location, at any time. But even Google Drive doesn't run as smoothly as you would like at times.

Typically, Google Drive offers users 15 GB of free cloud storage, which you can use to upload documents and other files. The Google Drive share is also shared by Google Photos and Gmail.

Unfortunately, the cloud service seems to have a bug that, in some rare cases, gives you a notification that Google Drive is full, which turns out to be untrue when examining available Google storage space. Some users even complain that after deleting some items, Google Drive not working does not update the storage quota.

Images uploaded to Google Drive can also take up a large amount of storage space. Most people don't know, but you can compress uploaded images to get hundreds of megabytes back. Here's how to do it:

1. Visit the Google Photos settings page and click the "Reclaim Storage" button. This setting will change the resolution of your photos and videos from original to high quality.

2. On the pop-up screen, click "Compress". You will see the amount of space that you will recover by compressing your photos and videos. The process can take up to an hour, depending on how many videos and photos are being compressed.

3. To make sure your future uploads don't take up a lot of storage space, change the sync mode from "Original" to "High Quality". This will allow you to store more photos and videos by slightly reducing their quality and size.