A while ago, Google Drive told me it was out of storage.
I tried re-syncing, and then it suddenly told me a “Drive storage is full” message indicating “You have 3GB in your trash at drive.google.com. Empty your trash or upgrade your storage”.
You can view your trash at drive.google.com/drive/trash
Emptying is more tricky than you’d think:
- Click on the “Trash word” (not the trash icon!)
- Click om “Empty trash”
- Conform the action

- wait a few seconds, as often the trash will fill itself up again
- if it refilled: repeat from step 2.
- refresh your browser screen, as often then the trash will refill
- if it refilled: repeat from step 2.
The trash contained thousands of temporary PDF files: 3.2 GB, even more than Google Drive indicated.
These are not something I want to keep in the trash. Too bad Google Drive never warned me they were kept there.
On a different account that had way more file changes this saved more than 27 GB.
Maybe time to setup [WayBack] Google Drive Sensor | PRTG Network Monitor User Manual

Might be really interesting, as since 2015, [WayBack] PRTG 100 is Now Available For Free.
–jeroen
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