Download quota exceeed for this file

There are many cases of people publicly sharing links to pirated movies or music via their Google Drive account. The bandwidth filter helps Google identify and ban those users from using Google Drive. Browse to the folder where you want to save the copy and select it. Select the Select button to choose it. Then select OK to finish. This moves the file from the original account it was shared from into your own Google Drive account.

Now that a copy of the original file is on your account, and no one else is downloading it, you can go ahead and download it now to your local computer without any download quota limitations. Now you can close the window where you were viewing the original file. Browse to the folder on your own Google Drive account where you made a copy of the file.

You have two ways you can now download the file to your computer. Right-click the file and select Download. For Google Chrome, this is the lower left corner. Just select the down arrow to the right of the file name and choose what you want to do with the file. If the file is pulled in the meantime, you won't be able to download it anymore. Also, if you require the file right away, for instance for work related tasks, waiting may not be an option.

There is a workaround that allows you to bypass Google Drive's 24 hour limit. How that is done depends largely on what you see on the screen. The most common error is shown on the screenshot above. It simply shows the error message but no other controls or options. Basically, what this does is create a copy of the file on your own Drive account. Since you are the owner of the copied file, you may download it to your local system this way.

If you get the Google Drive download quota exceeded error, you may receive one of the following error messages. This post offers you 11 methods to fix the issue that you are unable to upload files to Google Drive. According to the sharing method the uploader use, you can take different measures to solve this problem. If the uploader uses folder share type he uploads a folder directly , you can open his folder directly for download you will go to a page shown as the following picture.

Why is Google Drive still full after deleting files? If you have this issue, try the fixes in this post. If the uploader uses the link share type which is usually used to share a file he uploads a file or a compressed file , you can use a link to download this file directly you will go to a page shown as the following picture.