Google has applied a 5 Million items limit for Google Drive without any prior warning since February, 23. Surprisingly, Google has NOT documented it anywhere. Also, Google Drive does not show how many files you have in your Drive
Are 5 Million items limit huge?
Now if you upload 5 million 4KB files, it would take up 20GB of storage and you CANNOT upload any more files EVEN if you are paying for Google One 100GB or 2TB plans and 80% of it is still empty.
Is this a bug?
Google has confirmed to Ars Technica that the 5 million file limit in Google Drive is intentional, to prevent misuse of the system that could affect its stability and safety. The limit applies to each user’s creations and is not a total cap for all files in a drive. This won’t affect most users, and only a very small number of users will be impacted.
Google has applied a 5 Million items limit for Google Drive without any prior warning, causing major inconvenience to several users. If you have an average file-size of < 400KB on a 2TB plan, you’ll hit this limit before running out of space!
by u/ra13 in google