# Check and free up storage space

See how much storage you use and what takes the most room, find duplicate files, and free up space when your Drime storage is almost full.

Updated: 2026-10-20  
Source: https://drime.cloud/support/drive/check-and-free-up-storage

Your plan gives you a storage space. This article shows where to see how much you use, what counts toward it, and how to free up space.

## See how much you use

The storage meter at the bottom of the sidebar shows the space used and your total. Click it to open **Storage breakdown**, which splits your usage between **Files**, **Vault**, **Versions**, **Team space** and **Trash** (only the ones you use are listed), with **Open trash** to go straight to the Trash.

![The Storage breakdown opened from the storage meter, with Files, Vault, Versions, Team space and Trash, and Open trash](https://drime.cloud/media/01M5AQDP9CRDDRJMDEKNETZHGJ/9e217e5daeaa-web-storage-breakdown-popover.png)

For details, open **Settings** \> **Storage**. **Storage usage** shows your total and splits it by type: **Images**, **Videos**, **Documents**, **Audios** and **Others**. **Largest files** lists what is taking up the most room.

![Settings, Storage section, with the storage breakdown and the largest files](https://drime.cloud/media/01M59FKN6PXXTG62894KCYTZF8/1e519876b6e8-web-settings-storage-usage.png)

## When your storage is full

When you reach 100%, uploads stop until you free up space or move to a bigger plan. On the Free plan, a banner warns you from 80%: **You've used …% of your storage**, then **Your storage is full**, with a **Get more storage** button.

An upload refused for lack of space shows **You have exhausted your allowed space of …**.

## Free up space

Start with what costs nothing to remove:

1. Empty the Trash.

   Deleted items count until they are deleted permanently. Open **Trash**, then click **Empty trash**. See [Restore deleted files from the Trash](https://drime.cloud/support/drive/restore-deleted-files#delete-permanently).

   ![The Trash with four deleted files, the Drive and Backups tabs, and the Empty trash button](https://drime.cloud/media/01M590KTZ03334Z8FFQ2BKWZH4/3a1ddf82fa64-web-drive-trash.png)

2. Delete old versions.

   Since October 15, 2026, versions count toward your storage, and each file keeps up to 10 of them, the oldest removed first. To delete them for all your files at once, open **Settings** \> **General** \> **File versioning** and, next to **Delete all older versions of my files**, click **Delete**. For one file, right-click it, choose **File versions**, then **Clear all versions**.

   ![Version history of Launch plan.pdf with three versions, the current one on top, and the icons of an earlier version](https://drime.cloud/media/01M5985XWY1P1F6GDNF081V7EM/02873f3a6482-web-drive-version-history.png)

   To stop keeping new versions, turn off **Enable file versioning** in the same place. Files in folders shared with you still get versions for the other people. See [Restore a previous version of a file](https://drime.cloud/support/drive/restore-a-previous-version#storage).

3. Remove duplicates.

   In **Settings** \> **Storage**, under **Find duplicate files**, choose **Search all files** to look across your whole Drive, or **Search folder** for one folder. Drime looks for files with identical content, and falls back to the same name and size for files it can't compare by content. Check the results, then move the copies you don't need to the Trash. See [Find and remove duplicate files](https://drime.cloud/support/drive/find-duplicate-files).

4. Review the largest files.

   **Largest files**, in the same section, lists what takes the most room.

Duplicates you remove go to the Trash first: empty it to get the space back.

> **Note**
>
> The duplicate finder checks up to 50,000 of your largest files. Files in your computer backups are not compared, because backups are read-only.

## Get more storage

To get more space, open **Settings** \> **Storage** and, under **Plan**, click **Manage plan**, or **See plans** on the Free plan.

You can also earn extra storage by inviting friends: see [Earn free storage by inviting friends](https://drime.cloud/support/plans-and-billing/earn-free-storage).

## If it doesn't work

| What you see | What to do |
| --- | --- |
| **You have exhausted your allowed space of …** | Your storage is full. Free up space with the steps above, or get more storage. |
| **The workspace owner's storage is full. …** | In a workspace, files use the owner's storage. Ask the owner to free up space or upgrade. |
| The space does not come back after you delete files | Deleted files stay in the Trash and still count: empty it. After deleting all older versions, the freed space can take a little while to appear. |

For more help, see [My storage is full](https://drime.cloud/support/troubleshooting/storage-full).