DECEMBER 2020 PCWorld 13Google Photos storage expires, and a web
tool (go.pcworld.com/wbtl) that helps you
find discarded, large items, and other
inaccessible files and lets you
quickly delete them.
You know, of course, where this
is heading: Google One (go.
pcworld.com/g0ne), the name that
Google gives its paid storage plans.
Run out of free storage, and Google
will then begin pushing you to pay
up. Google’s pricing plans are
affordable, but you’ll still be
dropping dollars into Google’s
coffers: $1.99 per month ($19.
annually) means that you’ll get a total
of 100GB of cloud storage, and it
Google’s account storage management tool can be
found at one.google.com/storage/management (go.
pcworld.com/sman).
goes up from there.
Unfortunately, Google’s velvet
glove ushering you to Google
One also wields a stick: Google
accounts that have been inactive for
over 24 months may have their
content deleted, and the same applies
for accounts that exceed their data
cap. In other words, if you ignore
Google’s warnings, eventually your
total Photos will go over Google’s
limits, and at least some of them will
be deleted. Naturally, Google plans to
give you ample warning to convert to
a paid plan.
At some point though, you’ll have
to decide: Stop uploading photos to
Google’s cloud? Delete older content? Or
pay up? None of the options sound
particularly appealing.Google’s Google One storage plans.