This page provides you with relevant and useful documentation/resources regarding the Google Storage Project. Resources are separated by Google service: Drive, Mail, and Photos.
Note: Content specific to U-M and developed by ITS is listed with an .
General
- Overview of your current Google storage usage
- Getting Started With the ITS Google Storage Transfer Tool
Available to U-M faculty, staff, students, and Type-1 sponsored affiliates only.
Available to anyone in the university community.
- Tips for Cleaning Up Your U-M Google Account
- Find Google Files You’ve Shared With Others
- What Happens When My Storage is Full in U-M Google?
- Overview of Google Storage Limit Alerts/Warnings
- Manage your Google Workspace storage
- Check out other Google Storage Project help articles in the ITS knowledge base
Google Drive
- Tips for Cleaning Up Your U-M Google Account - My Drive
- Delete and restore files in Google Drive
- Download a file
- Transfer Ownership of Files in Google Drive
- Find files in Google Drive
- Claim Data Owned By Non-Affiliated Google Accounts
- Find Files You Own in Dropbox, Google, Microsoft 365, Slack, and Zoom
Google Shared Accounts
Google shared drives
- Tips for Cleaning Up Your U-M Google Account - shared drives
- Shared Drives in U-M Google
- Errors and Limitations of Moving Folders from Google My Drive to Shared Drives
- Google Shared Drives and My Drive Differences
- Store & share files or folders with shared drives
Google Mail (Gmail)
- Tips for Cleaning Up Your U-M Google Account - Gmail
- Search in Gmail
- Delete or recover deleted Gmail messages
- Google Mail Transfer Request (between @umich.edu accounts only)
- Working with Google Mail
- Open & download attachments in Gmail
Google Photos
Miscellaneous
- Who Owns That? site - tips and tricks for managing who owns your data in U-M Google, Dropbox, and OneDrive.
- ITS Sensitive Data Guide
- Getting Started with U-M Dropbox
- U-M Data Storage Finder
- Move Dropbox files and folders
- Import .MBOX Files into Mozilla Thunderbird