<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>google-drive on Digital Archive Systems Tech Blog</title><link>https://tech.ldas.jp/en/tags/google-drive/</link><description>Recent content in google-drive on Digital Archive Systems Tech Blog</description><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en</language><lastBuildDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0900</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://tech.ldas.jp/en/tags/google-drive/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>Investigating and Cleaning Up Google Drive Shared Drive Storage with rclone</title><link>https://tech.ldas.jp/en/posts/e3a5761e5dd54a/</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0900</pubDate><guid>https://tech.ldas.jp/en/posts/e3a5761e5dd54a/</guid><description>&lt;h2 id="introduction">Introduction&lt;/h2>
&lt;p>Have you ever encountered a situation where a Google Drive Shared Drive is running low on storage, but you can&amp;rsquo;t figure out which folder is the culprit? The Google Drive web UI doesn&amp;rsquo;t provide an easy way to check folder-level storage usage within Shared Drives.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>This article introduces how to use the CLI tool &lt;strong>rclone&lt;/strong> to efficiently investigate storage breakdown in a Shared Drive and identify/delete unnecessary files.&lt;/p>
&lt;h2 id="environment">Environment&lt;/h2>
&lt;ul>
&lt;li>macOS (with Homebrew available)&lt;/li>
&lt;li>Terminal&lt;/li>
&lt;/ul>
&lt;h2 id="1-installing-rclone">1. Installing rclone&lt;/h2>
&lt;div class="highlight">&lt;pre tabindex="0" class="chroma">&lt;code class="language-bash" data-lang="bash">&lt;span class="line">&lt;span class="cl">brew install rclone
&lt;/span>&lt;/span>&lt;/code>&lt;/pre>&lt;/div>&lt;h2 id="2-connecting-to-google-drive">2. Connecting to Google Drive&lt;/h2>
&lt;p>You can create a remote configuration non-interactively with the following command:&lt;/p></description></item></channel></rss>