Across Google Mail, Drive, and Photos, our campus-wide storage consumption has increased rapidly, and at a current rate, UIndy will exceed capacity within 6 months. To ensure operational stability, avoid service disruptions, and manage platform costs, we will implement an individual account storage limit of 100 GB starting March 1, 2027.
What counts toward the limit?
Storage is shared across your Google Workspace items, including Google Mail, Drive files, and Google Photos.
Check my current storage usage
Navigate to https://drive.google.com/drive/quota
How can I free up storage space?
Find instructions and tips for finding and deleting emails, files, and photos that are taking up your storage: https://support.google.com/a/users/answer/11448771.
When you first delete an email, file, or photo it will be moved to the Trash. Emails, files, and photos in trash continue to count against your storage quota until permanently deleted. While in your trash, items can be recovered within 30 days. Items in trash are automatically and permanently deleted after 30 days. You can also choose to manually and permanently delete items in your trash at any time by navigating to the Trash folder and clicking either Empty Trash to remove all items in trash or by selecting individual items and selecting Delete Forever. If you delete, restore, or permanently delete a large number of files or folders at once, it may take several minutes for the changes to be processed.
Personal Gmail Account for personal storage
We recommend that everyone have a personal Gmail account in addition to a UIndy Google account as a place to store personal files and communications. You can sign up for a free personal gmail account
What if I exceed my Google storage limit?
You will be able to delete items, but cannot save new items to Google Drive. Email sending and receiving will be interrupted.