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Remove Google Drive and all files
PART 1 I need to remove Google Drive from my laptop. I tried to follow on-line directions but my laptops does to seem to be set up the same way as the uninstall instructions suggest. I was able to Disconnect google drive through its icon in the tray but google drive is not in the Add or Remove Programs place to be able to uninstall. How do I uninstall google drive ? PART 2 I logged on to google drive through my browser and found many files still there. May 10G worth in the TRASH. Seems TRASH counts against the 15G free allotment. How do I en-mass delete the TRASH ? I cannot find any way to just tell google drive to delete all trash. I have been deleting piece by piece and it is taking hours and still have 5G still left in TRASH. How do I do this in one stroke ? I am running on Win XP Pro and also have google drive synced to my Win 7 Pro too. |
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Remove Google Drive and all files
Ohnow wrote:
I need to remove Google Drive from my laptop. I tried to follow on-line directions but my laptops does to seem to be set up the same way as the uninstall instructions suggest. I was able to Disconnect google drive through its icon in the tray but google drive is not in the Add or Remove Programs place to be able to uninstall. Did you look for "Backup and Sync from Google"? I logged on to google drive through my browser and found many files still there. May 10G worth in the TRASH. Seems TRASH counts against the 15G free allotment. When you delete from your own PC where is running their client, deleting an item in the local Google Drive folder (that syncs via the client to the folders in your online account) does not delete it off the server. You must use their webclient to actually perform deletes. Using just the client on your PC means eventually you consume your Google Drive quota. https://support.google.com/drive/answer/6374270?hl=en Trash is just a name for another folder. Since the file still exists there means it still occupies space. How do I en-mass delete the TRASH ? Again, use their webclient. Login to Google Drive, click on the Trash folder, and then click on the "Trash" folder name that has a down chevron. When you click on the down chevron, you get "Empty Trash". I don't know if that purges the entire Trash folder or just a page of items at a time. |
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On 06/22/2018 12:43 PM, Ohnow wrote:
PART 1 I need to remove Google Drive from my laptop. I tried to follow on-line directions but my laptops does to seem to be set up the same way as the uninstall instructions suggest. I was able to Disconnect google drive through its icon in the tray but google drive is not in the Add or Remove Programs place to be able to uninstall. How do I uninstall google drive ? PART 2 I logged on to google drive through my browser and found many files still there.Â* May 10G worth in the TRASH.Â* Seems TRASH counts against the 15G free allotment. How do I en-mass delete the TRASH ?Â* I cannot find any way to just tell google drive to delete all trash.Â* I have been deleting piece by piece and it is taking hours and still have 5G still left in TRASH. How do I do this in one stroke ? I am running on Win XP Pro and also have google drive synced to my Win 7 Pro too. The program is called (now) Backup & Sync. Look for that. At least that's what it's called on Windows 10. |
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Remove Google Drive and all files
On 22/06/2018 17:43, Ohnow wrote:
How do I uninstall google drive ? Format the hard disk and your Google Drive will disappear from it unless you are stupid to install it again. How do I en-mass delete the TRASH ? I cannot find any way to just tell google drive to delete all trash. I have been deleting piece by piece and it is taking hours and still have 5G still left in TRASH. By logging into your Google Drive Account and from there you can delete whatever you want. Have you asked them how this is done? You really need to use their forums where you can get definitive solutions. How do I do this in one stroke ? See above. /--- This email has been checked for viruses by Windows Defender software. //https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/comprehensive-security/ -- With over 950 million devices now running Windows 10, customer satisfaction is higher than any previous version of windows. |
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Delete trash only deletes what is visible. Things like Ctrl-A to select all do not work. I have now 4G of trash that I want to delete ! There has to be a way to just EMPTY ALL TRASH ! but I cannot find it. I figured out what I wanted to do other than be able to empty all trash. No one explains it properly on the web. I will try https://support.google.com/drive/answer but I expect uselessness there. As expected I just got off of that site and there are only guesses on how to do anything by non-google people. VanguardLH wrote: Ohnow wrote: I need to remove Google Drive from my laptop. I tried to follow on-line directions but my laptops does to seem to be set up the same way as the uninstall instructions suggest. I was able to Disconnect google drive through its icon in the tray but google drive is not in the Add or Remove Programs place to be able to uninstall. Did you look for "Backup and Sync from Google"? I logged on to google drive through my browser and found many files still there. May 10G worth in the TRASH. Seems TRASH counts against the 15G free allotment. When you delete from your own PC where is running their client, deleting an item in the local Google Drive folder (that syncs via the client to the folders in your online account) does not delete it off the server. You must use their webclient to actually perform deletes. Using just the client on your PC means eventually you consume your Google Drive quota. https://support.google.com/drive/answer/6374270?hl=en Trash is just a name for another folder. Since the file still exists there means it still occupies space. How do I en-mass delete the TRASH ? Again, use their webclient. Login to Google Drive, click on the Trash folder, and then click on the "Trash" folder name that has a down chevron. When you click on the down chevron, you get "Empty Trash". I don't know if that purges the entire Trash folder or just a page of items at a time. |
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On 22/06/2018 21:42, Ohnow wrote:
As expected I just got off of that site and there are only guesses on how to do anything by non-google people. And you thought you get Google people here on a windows newsgroup. Are you guys completely mad? What's wrong with you guys? Why don't you all use Linux Junk so that we don't have to deal with mad people like you. /--- This email has been checked for viruses by Windows Defender software. //https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/comprehensive-security/ -- With over 950 million devices now running Windows 10, customer satisfaction is higher than any previous version of windows. |
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Ohnow wrote:
Delete trash only deletes what is visible. Things like Ctrl-A to select all do not work. 4 GB of files only says how much space they occupy, not how many files. Could be just 1 file at 4 GB. Obviously that's not the case with you but it's still unknown how MANY files regardless of total size that you want to delete. Looks like my suspicion was correct in that Empty Trash only purges the currently listed item within a web page boundary. I ran into this when deleting old calls in Google Voice. No idea why Google thinks "Empty Trash" really means "Empty Trach on only the items listed in this page". Just to check: are you selecting the Trash folder by clicking on it in the left pane of Drive's webclient, clicking on the "Trash" folder name at the top which drops down a menu, and selecting "Empty trash" from there? I've read where others say that should empty the entire Trash folder, not just a page at a time. Ctrl-A wouldn't help, anyway. At best, that would only select the items listed within the current web page. That's what Empty Trash apparently does according to your report. What is needed is a checkbox for All Items (across all pages for the entire list). You could send feedback. Since their local client never empties the Trash folder (because it doesn't list all folders, just those synchronized from PC to server), maybe they think their users will never empty the Trash folder (only available using their webclient). Yet I remember running out of free space and having to do what you are doing now: empty trash (for the current page) and repeat ad nauseum until the "delete by page" finally spans all entries. They don't make their client work well with their service. Seems they expect their users to use their webclient all the time which means users would be more likely to visit the Trash folder more frequently. That doesn't work with all users. My aunt has something like over 3000 e-mails she leaves in her Inbox instead of deleting them or moving them into subfolders. She constantly has to use the search to find even a recent e-mail. She would never know that she got spammed because she subscribes to so many **** lists that it is impossible to different spam from what she subscribed. Some users are slobs. Google enables the slobbery by not having the client periodically or on demand purge the Trash folder or expiring anything in the Trash folder after either a fixed interval, like 30 days, or by some user-configurable threshold. Microsoft's OneDrive expires items in its Recycle Bin that are over 30 days old. However, items in the Recycle Bin do NOT count against your space quota. I just checked and the oldest item in the Recycle Bin is a month old. Since I backup data files everyday to OneDrive, and have been doing this for many months, I can see items in the Recycle Bin do expire after 30 days. I only run the data file backup once per day, so there are only 30 entries in the Recycle Bin. That is not long enough to cause paging of the list, so I don't know if Microsoft is the same as Google in deleting only what is listed within the current page. Google Drive's quota is reduced not only by the files you store there but also by the total size of all your e-mails in the Gmail account. Google Photos also impacts quota unless you let Google compress your photos. If Google gets to compress (reduce quality) of your photos then those photos are not counted against your Drive quota. If you upload photos at full resolution, they are treated just like uploaded files and reduce your quota, well, if the photos are greater than 2048x2048 and the videos are longer than 15 minutes. Documents created with Google Docs, Google Sheets, or Google Slides do not count against your Drive quota. If you are trying to quickly free up some space in your Drive account, click on the "xx.x MB of xxx used" statistic at the bottom of the left pane. You can then click on the "Storage used" column header to sort by size. Alas, this doesn't tell in which folder an item is held but it will point at the fattest files to let you decide whether or not to keep them. Within a folder, you can sort only filename and last modified, not on size. Drive's webclient doesn't have the most robust feature set. It is probably dumbed down for use on toy computers (aka smartphones). OneDrive's webclient lets you sort files by size within a folder. I rarely use the webclients to Google Drive or Microsoft OneDrive. I use the local client for synchronization between hosts to those accounts. After reminiscining for several minutes, about the only time that I remember using Drive's webclient was to empty out its Trash folder because items there count against the Drive storage quota, and that's because I hit the maximum storage quota (probably while trying to save backups there). Never had to bother using OneDrive's webclient to empty out its Recycle Bin which expires items over 30 days old. For Google Drive, I have 115 GB for storage quota of which only 62 MB is currently used. I think as your reputation builds at Google then they dole out more space. For Microsoft OneDrive, I have 1 TB of quota (because I subscribe to Office 365) of which I only 1 GB is used. Obviously I don't much use any cloud storage. What if the network goes down or I'm somewhere there isn't any network. Local storage is media still where most of my files are found. I think the default for new OneDrive accounts is only 5 GB and for Google Drive is 15 GB. |
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