man google drive is so shit, i have 3gb "used" but my drive is empty.

[trwnh@mastodon.social]

man google drive is so shit, i have 3gb "used" but my drive is empty. turns out there are some old shares that are simply not showing up in "my drive" nor in "shared with me". i have no idea how to make them visible so i can backup whatever i might want and delete the rest...

[trwnh@mastodon.social]

250MB in my trash but then i go to clear my trash and it shows as empty

[trwnh@mastodon.social]

per an undocumented search flag, you can search for "is:unorganized" and see orphaned files, apparently. but this still isn't all of the hidden files...

[trwnh@mastodon.social]

so yeah apparently it's just a totally acknowledged and acceptable outcome by google for your files to disappear from your drive so you can't access them yet they still take up storage space. but at least you can pay them for more storage space :-))))