UPDATE:
According to a Google spokesperson, the file limit isn’t a bug, calling the 5 million file cap “a safeguard to prevent misuse of our system in a way that might impact the stability and safety of the system.” The company clarified that the limit applies to “how many items one user can create in any Drive,” not a total cap for all files in a drive. For individual users, that’s not a distinction that matters, but it could matter if you share storage with several accounts.
Google added, “This limit does not impact the vast majority of our users’ ability to use their Google storage.” and “In practice, the number of impacted users here is vanishingly small.”
Original Article:
If you are using an Android device or any Google service including Gmail, which means you are also using the Google Drive app.
The app allows you to store files in the cloud. The app now has a new limit. Google Drive now has a new file limit for the total number of files you can store on an account.
According to ArsTechnica, this limit is available for both free and paid accounts. This change was first appeared in mid-February and tracked in Google Issue Tracker and Reddit.
The limit also includes the item present in the Trash folder, which has an automatic deletion limit of 30 days.
You will get the following message after the limit is exceeded:
This account has exceeded the creation limit of 5 million items. To create more items, move items to the trash and delete them forever
Google hasn’t publicly announced these new limit changes. Google currently charges $2 monthly for 100GB of storage.
