Google Drive Question: Extra Capacity

"Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura) 01/22/2019 at 08:38 • Filed to: None

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Suppose you have more than one Google Drive account, and lots of stuff shared between the two . In practical use, G-Drive tells you “13 gb used of 15 gb available.” To buy extra space, like a terabyte, is cheap. My question is, how does that space get allocated when you’re sharing things back and forth between the accounts? Would you likely need to buy the extra space for both accounts?

Disclaimer: I realize Google is enriching themselves by whatever I have stored on these accounts.

Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 01/22/2019 at 09:05

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I don’t think it would take up space when shared from one user to another, unless once it’s shared it’s also actually added to that account. That’s how I think it works with photos anyway, whenever I get a shared album there’s a button to add it to my photo collection, I think when I click that it will take up storage space.

I’m currently paying for the lowest tier of 100GB because I came close to using up my space.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs 01/22/2019 at 09:10

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That’s about where I’m at.

Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 01/22/2019 at 09:45

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maybe try like a 500mb file? See what it does when you share it to the other account.

Textured Soy Protein > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 01/22/2019 at 13:05

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When you buy extra space it’s tied to the specific account you upgrade.

If you share a file from account A to account B, you’re not actually copying the file to account B. You’re only giving account B access to the file so it doesn’t count towards account B’s quota. 

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Textured Soy Protein 01/22/2019 at 14:03

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So the account where the files actually live need to have sufficient space.

That makes perfect sense and it’s the kind of brain teaser that I enjoy in tech stuff.

Thank you.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs 01/22/2019 at 14:14

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That’s a good idea. But I expect that the owner would take the quota hit. I’ll give it a try.

Jason Spears > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 01/22/2019 at 16:22

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Yeah, just make sure the person being shared with doesn’t decide to make a copy of it to their own account “just in case” because that defeats the purpose.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Jason Spears 01/22/2019 at 16:44

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Right.