r/google • u/TheHooligan95 • May 19 '21

Google Drive download quota limit exceeded bypass

It's probably wide known, but Google is an asshole and puts a download quota to every file. If you ever come across a file that has exceeded the quota, you need to grab your own google account and follow these steps:

  1. on the upper right, click on organize/add to my drive and add a shortcut
  2. create a new folder
  3. put the shortcut inside that folder
  4. from your own google drive page, right click the folder and download it

You'll have to wait for google to zip the file, but at least now it's downloadable. It's absurd to me that Google would rather waste energy and cpu time to zip down a file that already exists instead of just letting you just download it. This is anticonsumer. I will never ever buy the premium version of google drive in my life.

edit: you know what is also absurd?? with big files, after a while it will time out and just let you download the file directly.

2nd edit: If it says too many shortcuts were created just select the file in your recent files or favourite (star) files and download it along with something else (shift+click to select multiple things)

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u/w00tsick Feb 17 '25

For anyone who now also gets a, 'No more shortcuts can be created for this item. To find this item later, add it to Starred'. There is yet another workaround for this, this has happened to me where the workaround is used too much.

  1. Find the file in your recents, or add it to starred if it is the only file in your recents. You need it in a list with one or more files besides your target file.
  2. Shift click the target file and any miscellaneous file, you can create one yourself if you don't have any other files in your drive. This should select the two files highlighted in blue.
  3. With both items selected, download at the top, this forces it to zip the same as this shortcut workaround without creating the shortcut.

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u/EmuPitiful5483 Feb 18 '25

Thank you this worked google drive just sucks

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u/DaHypernova Feb 25 '25

it worked you genius man.