Google Drive is the cloud platform for storing and organizing your Google Workspace files: documents, presentations, spreadsheets, and even media (images, audio, and video). If your Workspace account includes Gemini, Google’s AI assistant, you can prompt it to work with your files, such as asking it to analyze or sum up information from your Drive files.
Obviously, this is quite convenient: Instead of having to load one or more files and search or read through them to find specific information — for example, about your business’ budget — you can just ask Gemini to analyze your files and provide a budget summary. Gemini can even access your Gmail and content from other Workspace tools (such as Google Calendar, Chat, Keep, and Tasks) for any mentions of your business’ budget.
However, an issue arises if you have a lot of files in your Drive library. You can quickly fill up your storage over the course of your business activity, creating new documents, spreadsheets, and presentations and accumulating even more files from co-workers. This can slow Gemini as it scans your entire library to find and compile the information you request.
This story originally appeared on Computerworld
