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Google Drive has quietly introduced a file creation limit for all users

, a user with 7 million files in Drive says that Google suddenly barred them from creating new files in February despite not hitting the 2TB storage limit that they pay for. Meanwhile, several other users onsite say they’ve encountered the file cap around the same time and were initially under the impression that it was a bug.

As pointed out in the Reddit post, the file cap means that someone with 2TB of storage with an average file size over 400KB will reach their file limit before they even run out of storage space. In other words, some users may be paying for more storage than they can actually use unless they opt to compress their files into zip folders.

Judging by users’ comments, it seems that Google didn’t alert those affected by the newly implemented limitit took place, leaving them scrambling to relocate or compress excess files once the policy came into effect. It also doesn’t look like Google updated its

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