Investigating and Cleaning Up Google Drive Shared Drive Storage with rclone
Introduction Have you ever encountered a situation where a Google Drive Shared Drive is running low on storage, but you can’t figure out which folder is the culprit? The Google Drive web UI doesn’t provide an easy way to check folder-level storage usage within Shared Drives. This article introduces how to use the CLI tool rclone to efficiently investigate storage breakdown in a Shared Drive and identify/delete unnecessary files. Environment macOS (with Homebrew available) Terminal 1. Installing rclone brew install rclone 2. Connecting to Google Drive You can create a remote configuration non-interactively with the following command: ...