When redirected you will be surprised to see the Storage used by different file types. To know which ones are taking the most space visit (web interface) > click Storage. On Google Drive, you can save all file types.
To remove Spam email, click the spam folder > Delete all spam messages now to clear the folder. But if you have a large amount of them, it will take up a good chunk of cloud storage space. Though emails in this folder are deleted automatically after 30 days. If you trust Google’s algorithms in the search bar type “label: unimportant.” This will bring up the newsletters, emails from contacts you don’t interact with very often, marketing messages, and beyond.Īlso, remember Spam messages count towards your storage quota. Labels can also help get rid of unwanted messages. This will help manage storage space taken up by emails received in Gmail. To find such email in the search box, type “has: attachment larger:10m” (this will find email attachments bigger than 10 megabytes) Select the email and click Delete. In addition to this, you can also search for emails with large attachments, as they also take up a lot of room in your Gmail inbox. However, you can manually clean the Trash folder. This will move selected emails to the Trash folder and they will stay there for 30 days. Note: The numeric folder name may change from machine to machine.When you get the search results, select the conversations (click the Select all conversations that match this search option) if there are no results you might not get this option. What the command above is doing is deleting the numeric directory from DriveFS: $ cd ~/Library/Application\ Support/Google/DriveFS/ $ du -sh * 224Mđ14104707028901901726 4.0KĜrashpad 4.7M Logs 20M Resources 12K account_db_sqlite.db 512K cef_cache 4.0K pid.txt 4.0K signin $ rm -rf * $ du -sh * 4.0KĜrashpad 4.7M Logs 20M Resources 12K account_db_sqlite.db 512K cef_cache 4.0K pid.txt 4.0K signin To clear cache without deleting credentials, you can delete just the cache content directory: rm -rf ~/Library/Application\ Support/Google/DriveFS/* The side-effect of this is that it also deletes your credentials so you’ll need to login again. WARNING : If files are pending upload to Drive, deleting the cache may cause the files to be lost (see comment ). To delete the DriveFS cache directory using Terminal: rm -rf ~/Library/Application\ Support/Google/DriveFS/