{"id":16996,"date":"2019-06-24T17:46:19","date_gmt":"2019-06-24T21:46:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=16996"},"modified":"2019-06-24T17:46:19","modified_gmt":"2019-06-24T21:46:19","slug":"google-account-management-made-easy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/google-account-management-made-easy\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Account Management Made Easy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 28pt;\">Google Account Management Made Easy<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">The title makes this sound like a seminar for geeks and nerds,\u00a0 but it&#8217;s not. It&#8217;s just some useful information for all of you with Google Accounts.\u00a0 And some of you may not know this, but if you have Gmail, you have a Google account which consists of Gmail, Google Drive, and Google Photos.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Not too many people ever run out of space in the Google account since Google gives every user 15 GB free space to use. That&#8217;s a lot of emails, but you store large files or photos in your Gmail account, you could be approaching your free space limit. When that happens, Google will prevent you from adding anything more to your account until you buy more space, or delete some of the space-hungry files.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">How much Google account space are you using?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Make sure you&#8217;re logged into your Google account and click the link below:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/one.google.com\/storage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/one.google.com\/storage<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Click on the link and you shall see,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Just how much space you have &#8211; used and free!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2019\/drive1.png\" alt=\"Cloudeight Google Tips\" width=\"589\" height=\"397\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">You can see at a glance where how much space is used and how it&#8217;s used.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Let&#8217;s back up your Google Account before you start deleting files and cleaning things up<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">If you&#8217;re going to be deleting files or cleaning up your Google account, it would be a good idea to back up your Google account to your hard drive before you start deleting files from your Google account:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">To learn how to back up your Google Account including Google Drive, Gmail, and Google Photos to your PC, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/backup-your-google-accounts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">see this page.<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Deleting files to increase available free Google account space<\/span><\/h2>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">To delete files that are using the most storage space, or all of the files in your Google Drive\u00a0follow these steps:<\/span><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">First, go to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/#quota\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/drive.google.com\/#quota<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">You&#8217;ll see all your files listed by file size -largest at the top to smallest.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Select the file(s) that you&#8217;d like to delete and click the Trash icon. If you want to delete everything &#8211; select one item then press CTRL+A to select them all.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Select Trash from the left navigation panel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Click Trash at the top, then click Empty Trash or select an item in the trash and click Delete forever.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">For further information regarding storage space limits, <a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/drive\/answer\/6558?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">read this article<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2019\/drive.png\" alt=\"Cloudeight Google Tips\" width=\"590\" height=\"350\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Now you know how to manage your Google account and find out how much space you are using, what is using it, how to back it all up and how to do delete the stuff you don&#8217;t want or don&#8217;t need.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Google account management made easy indeed!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: #3366ff;\"><em>Now can I be an account manager like you, EB?<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Google Account Management Made Easy The title makes this sound like a seminar for geeks and nerds,\u00a0 but it&#8217;s not. It&#8217;s just some useful information for all of you with Google Accounts.\u00a0 And some of you may not know this, but if you have Gmail, you have a Google account which consists of Gmail, Google Drive,\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/google-account-management-made-easy\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17002,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1751,2247],"tags":[363,31,1896,1897,3249],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16996"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16996"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17000,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16996\/revisions\/17000"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}