Individual and Generic Accounts:

When you reach the storage limit on your Google account, your access to services such as Drive, Gmail, and Photos will be affected in the following ways:

• Gmail: Your email will not be affected, and you can still send and receive emails.
• My Drive: Until you reduce the amount of storage in your account to below your quota amount:
  • You cannot sync or upload new files.
  • You cannot create new Google file types such as Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, Drawings, Forms, etc.
  • Users can’t record new meetings in Google Meet.
  • Neither you nor anyone else (i.e., collaborators shared on the file) will be able to edit the affected files you own.
  • Additionally, collaborators cannot add to or edit files in affected folder structures where the parent/root level folder is owned by someone whose storage is full. (For example, Person A owns files in a folder owned by Person B. If Person B’s storage is full, Person A cannot edit their owned files in Person B’s folder.)
  • Google Forms in your account will no longer be able to accept additional responses.
  • Syncs stop between your computer's Google Drive for desktop folder and My Drive.
• Photos: You cannot sync or upload additional photos or videos.

Shared Drives:

When you reach the storage limit on a Google shared drive of which you are a Manager, some functionalities in that specific drive will be affected in the following ways:

• All members and collaborators cannot move, create, upload, or copy content (including Google file types) into the shared drive when the storage is full or if the item they are trying to move/create/upload/copy will cause the storage to exceed the limit.
• All members and collaborators will still have access to view, comment, and edit (depending on their permission level) existing files and folders within the shared drive.
• You will need to reduce the amount of storage in your account below the allotted quota/ shared drive before full functionality will be restored and the banners disappear.