Summary:
Wellesley College, a long-time Google Workspace for Education advocate, is facing a growing storage challenge. The era of “free and unlimited” is over, and simply asking users to clean up isn’t working. We’ve paid for more space, but the clutter persists, and Google’s technical solutions have been MIA for four years.
From overflowing Google Photos with no API cleanup options (and a looming 2026 free storage deadline) to cumbersome, error-prone methods for managing alumni Drive files, we need help. Telling us to just communicate better with users isn’t the answer – we’re doing that!
Our Plea: Give us the technical tools – APIs for deleting Photos, programmatic file deletion for Drive, and even intelligent suggestions via Gemini. We need real solutions to manage our storage effectively. Google, you have the power to fix this!
Here is the podcast (thanks, Google Notebook LM)