Google comes with unannounced new limit for Google Drive

Google has, without sending a (news) message or anything like that. set a new limit for Google Drive. Since last month, Drive users have been reporting that uploading files is no longer possible, despite the fact that their TB subscription limit has not yet been reached. What is going on?

New limit, separate from your subscription

A user on Reddit reports that he can no longer upload files to or in Drive. The user reports that he has a Google Drive account for 2 TB and that he has currently used 1.62 TB. Despite this, his Drive is still ‘full’ and he receives the message ‘Uploading Failed’: uploading failed. This story is echoed in other posts on Reddit, with some reports from Google Support representatives.

It informed people that Drive had set a limit of five million items (files, photos, videos, or other files). This applies to all of Google Drive. This is also independent of the account and the available space for which you have a subscription. Because of this, users with small file sizes such as documents are likely to reach the item limit before the storage limit is reached.

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Response Google

Unfortunately, Google has not (yet) distributed a message or clear guidelines about this. A Google employee told CNET that:

To maintain strong performance and reliability, individual users are limited to 5 million total created items in their Google Drive. It will only affect a few users.”

If you have reached the limit, you do not have to worry that your documents will become inaccessible, will disappear or that you will overwrite them with a new file. However, you can no longer create and/or upload new files. You must first free up space for this.

Are you also getting an upload failed message? Or are you afraid to get it soon? Let us know in the comments below this article.