Greetings fam, i’m unable to download items from the google drive (Team drives). It keeps on popping up " The download quota for this file has been exceeded" let alone tryna download after 3 days of gap & different VPN servers thinking it would refresh the limit but nope still the same issue.

Would be glad if there’s a solution to this. Thanks in advance.

  • tommy@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Create a folder in your google drive, then make a shortcut of the file you want to download and move it to the folder you created. Then add some small file like random txt to that folder. Finally, download the whole folder. Now google drive should compress files in folder to zip file and after a minute or so download should begin

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    1 year ago

    encrypt your data and encode it as a file. Upload it to youtube. Infinite storage!

    jk dont do this. or do. it might be funny

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        1 year ago

        it would likely be possible to have enough redundant data that it would be usable still

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        1 year ago

        It would more than likely be a stream of different colored bars representing bits or something, you would need a LOT of video to store any reasonable amount of data and have it get through youtube’s compression.

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    1 year ago

    I had no idea they even had an upper limit to downloads.

    I’d love to know both mow much it took to get there and how to bypass it should it happen.

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    1 year ago

    Not sure if it works for this specific gDrive error but usually when I wanna download something but Drive won’t let me I add a shortcut to it in a folder in my own gDrive account alongside a dummy text file, then I right click on the folder and download the whole thing as a ZIP.

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    1 year ago

    You could try to “make a copy” using gdrive, that’ll add a new downloadable version to your drive