How to see folder size in Google Drive

Google Drive is a great cloud storage space to store your files and folders. Google Drive’s storage supports various plans including free plans and offers large storage capacity with the paid plans. You can see the folder size in Google Drive to decide about adding storage capacity.

If you want to stick into your 15 GB free storage or eager to pay a monthly subscription, first, you need to see the folder size in Google Drive. Depending upon the folder size in Google Drive, you can free up space in your Google Drive account. 

To get your Google Drive’s storage organized, you have to find out how big each folder is. You can look at file sizes, but the total size of the files in each folder is still a mystery. Let’s find ways to crack this mystery by seeing the folder size in Google Drive.

Google Drive folder size limit

A single folder in Google Drive which is not in a shared drive can have a maximum of 500,000 files placed within it.

This limit does not apply to the root folder of ‘My Drive’.

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Google Drive shared folder size limit

A shared Google drive can contain a maximum of 400,000 items, including files, folders, and shortcuts. A folder in a shared Google Drive can support up to 20 levels of nested folders.

Google Drive folder size calculator

You can calculate the Google Drive folder size by simple tricks included in this article.

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How To See Folder Size In Google Drive: The Quickest Method

This is the quickest method that you can follow to view the folder size in Google Drive. Let’s have a look at the steps!

• Launch or open Google Drive.
• Choose the Gear icon. You will find it positioned in the top right corner.

• Go to Settings.

• Choose View items taking up storage.

A list will appear on the screen where the larger or heavier files will be listed first, just like that of descending order. Once you have clearly seen the big files, you may decide to delete them or keep them, depending upon how great your need for storage space is. 

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How to see folder size in google drive

To see the size of larger files, you can follow the quickest workaround described below. To see the folder size in Google Drive, follow the below steps.

Step 1: Open Google Drive and sign into your account.

Step 2: Click the gear icon in the upper right corner of the screen.

Step 3: Click on “Settings.”

Step 4: Click “View items taking up storage” next to the “Buy storage” button.

You can see all the heavy files that take up the storage space in Google Drive are listing in descending order.

Once you see the folder size in Google Drive, you can now easily decide whether you want to keep those big files, save them somewhere else, or delete them.

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How to see folder size in Google Drive using the Backup and Sync app?

Google Backup and Sync app syncs all your Google Drive cloud storage data with your local hard disk. This app displays all of your Google Drive files and folders within a Google Drive File Explorer folder.

With the Backup and Sync app, you can easily view Google Drive folder sizes in Windows’ native file manager. All you have to do is install the “ Backup and Sync” app on your computer and back up the desired folders.

To see folder size in Google Drive using the backup and sync app, follow the below steps.

Step 1: Search for “Back and Sync app” in Google and download the app.

Step 2: Once the app is installed, save it to your hard drive. 

Step 3: Open the installer to add Backup and Sync to Windows. 

Step 4: Sign in to your Google Account while ensuring the associated Google Drive account.

Step 5: If you want to back up files to Google Drive from your machine, click “Choose Folder”. Otherwise, skip this step by pressing “Next.”

Step 6: The “Sync My Drive to this computer” option will be selected by default. The default place for the locally backed up Google Drive folder is “User Directory”. You can change this directory by choosing “Path.”

Step 7: Select “Sync only these folders…”  This will display all the Google Drive folders in your local explorer. You can see the folder size of Google Drive files. 

Once you’ve noted the folder size of Google Drive files, close the window. Otherwise, press “Start” to begin syncing Google Drive with your hard drive.

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How to see folder size in Google Drive by downloading the folder

You can download the Google Drive folder to your local hard drive and then view storage size details of the downloaded folder in File Explorer. Then you can delete the entire folder if you no longer need it.

To see folder size in Google Drive by downloading the folder, follow the below steps.

Step 1: Open Google Drive and sign in to your Google Drive account.

Step 2: Navigate to the left side of the page and click “My Drive”.

Step 3:  Your Google Drive folders will be displayed. Right-click on the folder(the desired folder to see size) and press “Download” to save a copy to your hard drive.

Step 4: “Preparing download” bar will be opened at the bottom right corner of the screen. The folder’s ZIP file will be saved to your browser’s default download folder. Now, open the downloaded Google Drive folder in File Explorer. 

Step 5: Since it saves as a compressed ZIP file, you should extract it. Right-click on the ZIP file and press “Extract all.” Select a destination path for the extracted folder, and then press the “Extract” button.

Step 6: To see the downloaded folder’s size, right-click on the extracted folder and click File Explorer >“Properties”.

This opens the Properties window in which you can see the folder size of the Google Drive folder under the General tab. If you feel, you no longer need the folder, you can delete folders by right-clicking the folder and then select “Delete.”

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How to see folder size in Google Drive using RaiDrive

RaiDrive is an open-source remote file management program for Windows that lets you add cloud storage services such as Google Drive, Dropbox, AWS, Microsoft 365, OneDrive, and more to your computer. 

You can simply view all files and folders using RaiDrive without downloading any data to local storage. Thus you can easily check the size of any folder in Google Drive from your File Explorer.

To see folder size in Google Drive using RaiDrive, follow the below steps. 

Step 1: Search for RaiDrive in google and download it to your PC.

Step 2: Open the RaiDrive app, and then click the option labeled ‘Add’.

Step 3: Select “Google Drive” from the Storage section to add it in RaiDrive.

Step 4: Now, sign in to your Google Drive accout with “sign in with google” option and give permission to  RaiDrive.Then add Google Drive as a remote drive location to your computer.

Step 5: Open File Explorer, and then double-click the newly added location. Right-click on the added Google Drive folder and then select Properties. You can now view the folder size on the Google Drive folder.

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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

1. Is there any folder limit in Google Drive?

In Google Drive, a particular folder that is not present in a shared drive can contain about 500,000 files or items. Please note that this very limit does not apply to the base folder of My Drive. 

2. How big is a Google Drive folder?

Google Drive provides users with 15GB of free storage space. 100 GB and 1 TB storage space can also be obtained by purchasing space at the rate of $2 per month and $10 per month, respectively. 

3. Is there a file size limit on Google Drive?

You can upload 750 GB of files in a single day. Once you reach the limit of uploading 750 GB in a day, you won’t be allowed to upload other files on that day. 

4. What is the maxim video size for Google Drive?

If you purchased storage, you could upload videos up to 5 TB. Else, the limit of uploading videos will depend upon how much storage space quota is left for you on that day. 

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Hope you’ve got an idea on how to find size of folders on google drive. Follow the above steps to see the folder size of Google Drive.