In the last year or so google drive has mutated from online access only to a version that appears to mount a drive on my desktop. That seems to work ok for me apart from not being able to empty the trash ( Recycle bin in windows speak) from my desk top.
I use the drive for automatic back ups which creates about 10GB of data per week comprising one full backup and 6 daily incremental backups which the backup programme moves to trash once they have been replaced.
Google throws out the trash after 30 days and includes the contents of the trash in my 15GB disk allowance so it does not take long before I run out of space.
To stop this happening Google invites me to buy more storage space but that is only going to be used to store 30days worth of trash. The useful data I need to store is only about 10GB and within the free allowance.
Is this just another google ploy to make money or is there a way to run a script on my pc to empty the Google trash every day or preferably instruct google to delete my trash every day?
OK it is only £16 per year to buy more storage but it goes against grain to buy extra just to use it to store trash
Bob