Google Drive revokes 5 million file creation cap following backlash

Google quietly rolled out a file creation limit on Drive the past few weeks, which imposed a five million file creation limit on its accounts. It drew flak from users over the limit, but also how there wasn't a warning issued about the cap. Now, Google is rolling back the changes, which it made to "preserve stability and optimize performance" and prevent Drive misuse. 

The tech giant argued it only ever impacted a small number of users but said it is looking for alternative ways to guarantee stable performance for all users.

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Google Drive adds offline support for PDFs, Office files, images

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Google Drive will now let you work with Office files, images, and PDFs in offline mode. Google started beta testing this feature back in 2019, but now it's rolling out widely to users. You will need the Google Drive for desktop app to get this work. It's available on both Mac and Windows. You also need to ensure Offline access is enabled in the Drive settings on the web. When you've set that up, right-click on a supported file to get to the "Available offline" toggle. 

Another caveat is you need to have the apps to open the apps that can open these files installed on your computer. A similar feature is available on the Chrome OS Files app. If it hasn't made its way to you yet, wait for it over the coming weeks.

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It’s now easier create new files with Google Drive

A new trick coming to Google Drive will make it easier to create new docs, sheets, slides, and the like. You no longer have to head to Google Drive with these new shortcuts, which we think are quite a time-saver. But, of course, you’ll need to know what these are to get use out of them. And the great thing is you don’t even have to be on Chrome to type these shortcuts out. So, click on the link to see the complete list.

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Google Drive set to reach one billion user mark at the end of this week

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If you rely heavily on Google Drive, you would assume everyone is on the service, too. Not quite. But the cloud storage service is set to hit a major milestone before the week ends. Google announced at its Google Cloud Next conference that the service will be crossing its billion-user threshold before the end of the week. It’ll be the eighth Google product to do so (after Android, Chrome, Gmail, Maps, the Play Store, Search, and YouTube). But it must be noted though that not all of these users are paying subscribers. Drive offers 15GB if free storage for Gmail and Drive. It’s also taken a bit of time to reach this number. At Google I/O 2017, Drive was said to have 800 million users and had then been storage for over two trillion files.

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