I’m sure you remember, we told you just a few days ago Google has quietly put a limit on the maximum number of files that can be stored on Google Drive. This is not a limit that could affect most users as it was set at five million files, but even then it didn’t take long for the first ones affected by this measure to appear when they go to create/upload new files to their cloud storage drive they found messages in which the service said they had to “clean up” first because they had exceeded the allowed limit.

The biggest problem is that in addition Google did not previously advise that this would be ideal, even when it implemented this measureThe affected users therefore had no leeway to act accordingly. This is undoubtedly surprising, because the truth is that the search engine company usually always behaves quite responsibly in this regard, reporting any change that may affect the users of any of its services well in advance.

It is even worse, as we already stated last Friday, because even this restriction has a universal character, that is it affects free accounts as well as paid accounts, regardless of the contracted storage capacity. We understand that a limit of this type is set on a free account, but if we are talking about paid ones, let us remind you that it is possible to automatically contract up to 30 terabytes and that those interested can contact Google for larger needs. Does it make sense to pay 149.99 euros per month and have the same limit as free accounts in this regard? I think the question answers itself.

The good news is that the company has realized the mistake and as we can read in a tweet from the official account of the service, Google is backing down and removing the file limit on Google Drive. As we can read in the report, the said limit was set in order to try to maintain the stability of the service and optimize its performance, but if, as they confirm, the impact was so small in terms of the number of users affected … what impact could it have on stability and performance platform?

Be that as it may, to err is human and to correct divine, so we must celebrate that society has decided to back down. And it’s even better, because as for the “silent” mode by which this restriction was implemented, in a second tweet they state the following: “If we need to make changes, we will notify users in advance«. Come on, they also confirm acceptance and commit to act as they almost always did, ie. earlier reporting.