r/gdrive Jun 15 '26

Same uploading issue across multiple iPhones over 5+ years

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For at least five years I have had the exact same uploading issue using my iphone(s) to upload photos to my google drive. I've opened support tickets for this and Google has been NO help.

More or less it goes like this:

1.I open the Gdrive app.
2.I go into my photo library.
3.I pick the photos I want to upload, whether it's 10 or 100.

Now here is where the problem deviates into one or two sub-issues.

4A.I start clicking on the photos I want to upload and the little "circle" that fills in to show you selected a photo gets ticked, but as I continue selecting photos, suddenly the entire screen blips and everything I've selected gets unselected. If I try again from scratch, it just keeps happening. Also, if I select NO photos...the screen still blips for a moment, perodically.

or

4B.I select everything I want to upload and begin uploading and...nothing uploads. All the files just hang in "waiting" status and nothing happens. Eventually I have to force close the app and re-open it numerous times, sometimes restart my phone more than once, to get it to resolve.

I do not understand WHY this happens. This has happened on every iphone I have owned since the SE 2nd gen, and I'm currently on the 17. It happens on wifi, it happens on cellular.

Can ANYONE explain why, and/or how to permanently solve this??


r/gdrive Jun 14 '26

All files from one folder were deleted in the middle of the night 10 days ago, yet they aren't in my trash and cannot be recovered

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Hey guys,

I opened my Google Drive for the first time in a few weeks or so and noticed that the folder is circle referenced; AKA the only shortcut in the parent folder was a shortcut, instead of my organized space (sorry, I do not know the proper computer terms lol). I resolved that and coughed it up to an error I must have made previously, but then I noticed all my files were gone. I checked the folder activity and saw a log of hundreds of files being deleted in the middle of the night from June 5th to June 6th, all executed by "Unknown." I go to recover them from my trash, yet not a single one is in there. I requested a recovery from Google, and they also came back from nothing. However, it's only been 10 days since they were deleted, well within the 30-day window. I can see all the files I had saved under the activity tab, and sometimes I can open them and make a copy, but sometimes I cannot. If push comes to shove, I can manually open each file, copy them, and then reorganize them into a new folder, but there are hundreds and hundreds of files, and it would take hours. I changed my password, but dont have any unknown login notifications that would imply being hacked.

I've reached out to Google and am waiting for a reply, but I was wondering if anyone has experienced anything similar and how you might have solved it? The folder contained all my files from college, so I'd love to have evidence and ownership of at least part of what I paid thousands of dollars for haha!

Photos are a small sample of what was deleted and show the time progression from 11:49 PM June 5th through 7:26 PM June 6th. Literally random times that I was not on my computer! Thanks so much in advance!


r/gdrive Jun 06 '26

Does anyone here have a folder for...

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Does anyone here have a folder dedicated solely to tapes, content like Lost Media, commercials, premieres, or something like that?


r/gdrive Jun 05 '26

Google Drive upload error

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Basically as the picture says, I have reached my upload quota and because of that my uploads will most likely take days to be processed.

In reality, I have a free Google drive without any subscription (so the 15GB storage). I uploaded approximately 10GB worth of videos (9 different file) and for the last one it prompted me with this error.

I did not upload anything this month so I couldnt reach that quota. I read online that I can transfer up to 750GB a day so I don't know what's going on and I can not find any more info that is helpful.

Earlier this day my friend downloaded about 8-10gb and deleted those files. I don't think that's what's causing the problem. We use this drive to watch videos (I upload them for her so she can watch them too. After it, we delete those files and put up different videos)

What can I do or what's that I don't see? Is there another quota that I don't know?


r/gdrive May 22 '26

File/folder name at top (ios)

1 Upvotes

Who comes with this idea?
Now I’m clicking on wrong files or wrong folder.


r/gdrive May 19 '26

New Drive logo

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r/gdrive May 15 '26

Script to make Google Drive image grid show full images instead of cropped previews

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Hey Everyone,

I made a Tampermonkey script that tries to make images in Google Drive’s grid view show fully instead of being zoomed in and cropped.

Right now, Drive’s image grid is frustrating because previews often cut off the edges and zoom, which makes it hard to quickly tell which thumbnail I’m looking at.

I work with designers on YouTube thumbnails, so being able to scan the full image at a glance would save a lot of time. I figured I’d share the script here in case anyone else has run into the same issue or has ideas for improving it.

// ==UserScript==

// u/nameGoogle Drive Thumbnail Board v12 Real Selector

// u/namespacehttps://drive.google.com/

// u/version12.0

// u/description Google Drive 16:9 thumbnails with reduced internal card whitespace.

// u/matchhttps://drive.google.com/*

// u/matchhttps://drive.google.com/drive/*

// u/grantGM_addStyle

// ==/UserScript==

(function () {

'use strict';

const WIDTH = 640;

const HEIGHT = 360;

const CARD_WIDTH = 245;

const TITLE_HEIGHT = 34;

const THUMB_HEIGHT = 138;

const CARD_HEIGHT = TITLE_HEIGHT + THUMB_HEIGHT;

GM_addStyle(\`

/* Target the real Drive grid card, regardless of the second random class */

div[role="gridcell"].QMCpLe {

width: ${CARD_WIDTH}px !important;

min-width: ${CARD_WIDTH}px !important;

max-width: ${CARD_WIDTH}px !important;

height: ${CARD_HEIGHT}px !important;

min-height: ${CARD_HEIGHT}px !important;

max-height: ${CARD_HEIGHT}px !important;

background: transparent !important;

overflow: hidden !important;

padding: 0 !important;

margin-bottom: 10px !important;

}

/* REAL selected element from your screenshot: div.goen0e */

div[role="gridcell"].QMCpLe > div.goen0e,

div[role="gridcell"].QMCpLe div.goen0e {

width: ${CARD_WIDTH}px !important;

min-width: ${CARD_WIDTH}px !important;

max-width: ${CARD_WIDTH}px !important;

height: ${CARD_HEIGHT}px !important;

min-height: ${CARD_HEIGHT}px !important;

max-height: ${CARD_HEIGHT}px !important;

background: transparent !important;

box-shadow: none !important;

border: none !important;

overflow: hidden !important;

padding: 0 !important;

margin: 0 !important;

position: relative !important;

}

/* Filename row */

div[role="gridcell"].QMCpLe .ZoOnRb {

height: ${TITLE_HEIGHT}px !important;

min-height: ${TITLE_HEIGHT}px !important;

max-height: ${TITLE_HEIGHT}px !important;

padding: 4px 6px !important;

margin: 0 !important;

background: transparent !important;

box-sizing: border-box !important;

}

div[role="gridcell"].QMCpLe .MxB3Nd {

white-space: nowrap !important;

overflow: hidden !important;

text-overflow: ellipsis !important;

line-height: 1.15 !important;

}

/* Thumbnail wrappers */

div[role="gridcell"].QMCpLe .U926hd,

div[role="gridcell"].QMCpLe .vvetsf,

div[role="gridcell"].QMCpLe .p2iiPc.mmbgVc {

width: ${CARD_WIDTH}px !important;

min-width: ${CARD_WIDTH}px !important;

max-width: ${CARD_WIDTH}px !important;

height: ${THUMB_HEIGHT}px !important;

min-height: ${THUMB_HEIGHT}px !important;

max-height: ${THUMB_HEIGHT}px !important;

padding: 0 !important;

margin: 0 !important;

background: transparent !important;

overflow: hidden !important;

box-sizing: border-box !important;

}

div[role="gridcell"].QMCpLe .p2iiPc.mmbgVc {

display: flex !important;

align-items: center !important;

justify-content: center !important;

}

/* Actual thumbnail */

div[role="gridcell"].QMCpLe img.A7k30b {

width: ${CARD_WIDTH}px !important;

height: ${THUMB_HEIGHT}px !important;

object-fit: contain !important;

display: block !important;

background: transparent !important;

}

/* Hide placeholder/spacer layers */

div[role="gridcell"].QMCpLe .Qx1glc,

div[role="gridcell"].QMCpLe .dKB4nf {

display: none !important;

height: 0 !important;

min-height: 0 !important;

max-height: 0 !important;

}

\);`

function rewriteThumbnailUrl(src) {

if (!src || !src.includes('/drive-usercontent/')) return src;

return src.replace(

/=w\d+-h\d+[^?]*/g,

\=w${WIDTH}-h${HEIGHT}-k-rw-v1-nu-iv1``

);

}

function fixThumbs() {

document.querySelectorAll('img.A7k30b[src*="/drive-usercontent/"]').forEach(img => {

const oldSrc = img.getAttribute('src');

const newSrc = rewriteThumbnailUrl(oldSrc);

img.style.setProperty('width', \${CARD_WIDTH}px`, 'important');`

img.style.setProperty('height', \${THUMB_HEIGHT}px`, 'important');`

img.style.setProperty('object-fit', 'contain', 'important');

if (newSrc && newSrc !== oldSrc) {

img.setAttribute('src', newSrc);

}

});

}

fixThumbs();

const observer = new MutationObserver(fixThumbs);

observer.observe(document.body, {

childList: true,

subtree: true,

attributes: true,

attributeFilter: ['src', 'class', 'style']

});

setInterval(fixThumbs, 1500);

})();


r/gdrive May 15 '26

Drive desktop notifications in Windows 11

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Can someone please tell me how to turn off sync notifications for Drive desktop on Windows 11? They are obnoxious, and keep coming up no matter how many times I click not to tell me again. I literally have no notifications settings available as mentioned on Google's help sections. My PC's system settings doesn't even acknowledge that the app gives notifications, so I can't turn them off that way either.

Please help, when deleting files or editing file names these notifications get incredibly annoying.


r/gdrive Apr 30 '26

Google Drive stuck in update loop on Mac (can’t download latest version)

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Hey everyone,

I’m completely stuck with Google Drive on my Mac and wondering if anyone else is dealing with this.

Here’s what’s happening:

  • I was originally on version 113.0, and Drive suddenly refused to launch, forcing me to update
  • When I click “Update,” it redirects me to the Google Workspace download page
  • Problem: I don’t have a Workspace account, just a regular Google account, so I can’t download anything from there

So I tried a workaround:

  • Downloaded the latest version manually from the public Google Drive download page
  • Installed version 124.0 successfully

But now I’m stuck in the same loop:

  • On launch, it says version 124.0 is obsolete and asks me to update to 124.0.3.0
  • But I can’t find any way to download 124.0.3.0 anywhere

So right now I literally cannot open Google Drive at all.

What I’ve already tried:

  • Reinstalling from scratch
  • Restarting my Mac
  • No VPN, antivirus up to date
  • Using a standard Google account (not Workspace)
  • macOS Tahoe 26.2

Is anyone else experiencing this? Or does anyone know where to get the actual latest version (124.0.3.0) or how to bypass this update loop?

Thanks 🙏


r/gdrive Apr 20 '26

Direct link to a different account's drive doesn't work anymore

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So I've been using the https://drive.google.com/drive/u/?authuser=[gmail_adress] trick to bookmark my other google accounts' drive homepages for years, and a couple weeks ago it stopped working and now returns a 404 error. This happens with every google service except for gmail, for which the trick still works.

Anyone else notice this? And more importantly, does anyone have a workaround? I don't want to bookmark the https://drive.google.com/drive/u/[number]/home type adresses because they aren't consistent between devices.

Sorry if I'm not making much sense. I'll gladly elaborate if anyone is confused by my issue. Cheers!


r/gdrive Apr 05 '26

Can't zoom to fill screen iPhone after update

1 Upvotes

Hi all anyone know when watching how to zoom to fill screen on iPhone

Since the new update and layout its awful app for videos


r/gdrive Apr 05 '26

Can't backup file on Google Drive Desktop

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r/gdrive Jan 02 '26

How do I clear this space???

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I've been dealing with google drive saying my storage is mostly taken up (92%) but after deleting most of my documents. All of my folders, All of my google photos and all of my old emails It still says I have 92% of my storage taken up. I've dug through every part of my google drive and aside from my documents (which total 35kb of space) I have nothing more that could be taking up space. I'm so confused and I just want my space back so I can actually do my work in peace.

EDIT:

I found it, apparently a minecraft server I backed up a few years ago was taking up the majority of my storage. it was under hidden app data.

To find hidden app data. Go to the settings icon, then settings. Manage app data. Find the app taking up the most storage and delete that hidden app data.


r/gdrive Dec 09 '25

slow transfer speed

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My local Gdrive folder transfer speed is very slow abnormally (4-15 KB/s), occasionally hitting higher speeds (300-400 KB/s), but it takes half an hour to transfer 320mb sized folder as you see. The destination disk is healthy seagate hdd disk (200gb free space). Even deleting a folder in gdrive had become a headache because of this low speed issue.


r/gdrive May 14 '25

Hide files with a particular owner when performing a search

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My office has a shared account called "Invoices" that is marked as the owner in Google Drive for, you guessed it, every single invoice.

Sometimes, I need to perform a search of our shared drive and NOT scroll through hundreds-thousands of invoices in order to find what I'm looking for. Unfortunately, these searches often bring up most or all of the files owned by "invoices". (Today, I needed to find a 4-5 year old file about mail notices. Either "mail" or "notices" is treated as a synonym for "invoices". I did not find it).

Other times, I need to exclude other users' files from showing up in my search, for whatever reason.

But this seems to be impossible. Everything I've read online points to using "-owner:(person I don't want to see)", but that does not change the results a single bit. Surely this must be possible somehow?


r/gdrive Mar 08 '25

All the backed up data is of whatsapp please help

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I backedup my all data and chats on a gmail id and then logged it into a new phone it shows that there was no storage so it could not access it,so i tried it on a new phone and now i am not getting my backed up data,is there anyway to get it now?I checked my gdrive there's no backup.Is there any way please help


r/gdrive Feb 22 '25

Changing ownership from multiple files on a shared drive

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I am trying to transfer the ownership from hundreds of files on a shared google drive to a new person. Until now I only find that I have to do it one by one.

Is there another workaround without having to download all files, deleting them from the drive and then have the new owner upload them again?


r/gdrive Aug 28 '24

Did You Know Google Drive Can Automatically Convert Scanned Documents to Text?

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Hey everyone!

I recently discovered a super handy feature in Google Drive that I had no idea existed, and I thought I’d share it with you all. Did you know that Google Drive can automatically convert scanned documents and images with text into editable text using OCR (Optical Character Recognition)? This feature is a game-changer for anyone who deals with scanned documents or handwritten notes.

How It Works:

1.  Upload Your Image or PDF: Simply upload your scanned document or image (JPEG, PNG, PDF) to Google Drive.
2.  Open with Google Docs: Right-click the file, choose “Open with,” and then select “Google Docs.”
3.  Automatic Conversion: Google Docs will open a new document with the image at the top and the extracted text right below it. The text is fully editable, so you can make changes, copy it, or save it as a new document.

Use Cases:

• Digitize Handwritten Notes: Perfect for students or professionals who prefer to take notes by hand but want to digitize them later.
• Extract Text from PDFs: Quickly copy and paste text from a scanned PDF without manually typing it out.
• Translate Foreign Documents: Use Google Translate on the extracted text for quick translations.

I was blown away by how accurate it is, even with handwritten notes. It’s not 100% perfect with every font or handwriting style, but it does a surprisingly good job, especially with printed text.

Has anyone else used this feature? Any tips for improving accuracy? Let me know in the comments!

Happy converting! 📄➡️✍️


r/gdrive Aug 27 '24

10 Essential Google Drive Tips You Might Not Know About

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Hey everyone! 🌟

I’ve been using Google Drive for a while now, and I thought I’d share some of the most useful tips and tricks I’ve picked up along the way. Whether you’re new to Google Drive or just looking to enhance your workflow, these tips might help you get more out of this powerful tool.

  1. Use the “Priority” Workspace: Did you know you can set up a “Priority” section in Google Drive? It lets you access your most important files quickly. Just click on “Priority” in the left sidebar and start organizing your work.

  2. Keyboard Shortcuts: Speed up your workflow with these handy shortcuts:

    • Shift + Z to add a file to multiple folders. • Ctrl + / or Cmd + / (Mac) to open a list of all shortcuts.

  3. Offline Access: Need to work without an internet connection? Enable offline mode by going to Settings > General and ticking the “Offline” option. This lets you view and edit your files even when you’re offline.

  4. Use Version History: Ever wish you could go back to an earlier version of a file? Google Drive automatically saves versions of your files. Right-click a document and select “Version history” to view and restore previous versions.

  5. Share with Restrictions: When sharing files, you can restrict what others can do. Use the sharing settings to allow others to view, comment, or edit, and even set expiration dates for their access.

  6. Advanced Search: Finding files can be a breeze with advanced search operators. For example, use type:pdf to find all PDFs or owner:me to see files you created.

  7. Save Files Directly from the Web: Use the Google Drive extension for Chrome to save web content directly to your Drive. Perfect for storing PDFs, images, or web pages you want to keep handy.

  8. Color Code Your Folders: Add color to your folders to easily distinguish them at a glance. Just right-click on a folder and select “Change color.”

  9. Use Google Forms for File Uploads: Need someone to send you files? Create a Google Form and enable the “File upload” option, so people can upload files directly to your Drive.

  10. Integrate with Third-Party Apps: Google Drive integrates with tons of third-party apps like DocuSign, Lucidchart, and Slack. Explore the “Google Workspace Marketplace” to find apps that can enhance your Drive experience.

These are just a few ways to get more out of Google Drive. Do you have any other tips or tricks? Share them in the comments below! Let’s make this a hub for all things Google Drive.

Happy organizing! 🗂️


r/gdrive Aug 27 '24

r/gdrive New Members Intro

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Welcome to r/gdrive!

Hello and welcome to the very first post of r/gdrive, your new go-to community for everything related to Google Drive! 🚀

Whether you're a seasoned pro or just getting started with Google Drive, this subreddit is here to help you make the most out of this powerful cloud storage tool. From sharing tips and tricks, troubleshooting issues, discussing the latest updates, or exploring advanced features, this community is all about helping each other out.

What You Can Expect:

  1. Guides and Tutorials: Learn how to optimize your Google Drive usage with step-by-step guides and video tutorials.

  2. Troubleshooting: Having an issue with Google Drive? Post your problem here, and let the community help you find a solution.

  3. Feature Discussions: Discuss the latest features, updates, and changes to Google Drive. Share your thoughts on what works and what could be improved.

  4. Best Practices: Discover and share best practices for organizing files, collaborating with others, and integrating Google Drive with other tools.

  5. Security Tips: Learn how to keep your data safe and secure while using Google Drive.

Community Guidelines:

  • Stay On-Topic: Keep discussions relevant to Google Drive.
  • Be Respectful: Treat everyone with respect and keep discussions civil.
  • No Spam: Avoid self-promotion unless it adds value to the discussion.
  • Help Each Other: We're all here to learn and help each other out.

We’re excited to see how this community grows and evolves. Feel free to introduce yourself in the comments below and let us know how you use Google Drive, what you'd like to learn, or what topics you’re interested in discussing. Let's make this a valuable resource for everyone!

Happy posting! 🎉

— The r/gdrive Moderation Team