How to Free Space on Google Drive From Hidden Files
It often happens that Google Drive is full, and when we go in to see which files are taking up space, nothing is visible. These are backups of various applications that we connected to our Google Drive. These backups can take up a lot of space and are not visible among the standard files.
Watch our video tutorial where we show you how to free space on Google Drive from hidden files using Windows 10 and Google Chrome.
See our guide on how to free space on Google Drive from hidden files using the Viber application as an example
Video Transcript:
- How to Free Space on Google Drive From Hidden Files
- Hidden files are backups of various applications that we connected to our Google Drive. We will show you how to clear hidden files using the Viber application as an example.
- Go to www.google.com, sign in to your account and go to Google Drive
- Click on the gear icon
- Click on Settings
- Click on Manage apps
- Next to Viber, click on Options
- Click on Delete hidden app data
- Click on Delete
- Wait a few hours, because that’s how long Google Drive needs to register that the space is freed