Is your Google Drive about to explode because you have so many files in there?
You have your Gmail files on your
Google Drive, you have your backups from your phone,
you have your Google Sheets, and you have other files stored on the Google Drive.
And, well, it's about to ask you to upgrade your your plan because you're
on the free plan or you're on the paid plan, but you still have so many files.
Well, Short Pixel might have a solution for you.
And what it does,
it compresses files inside of your Google Drive so you have more storage.
Now, in my case, my Google Drive is 90%
full, so I'm being asked to upgrade or delete some files.
In this case, I'm going to make a test
to see if Google Drive from Short Pixel is going to do the trick for me or not.
Let's find out. Let's jump over to my desktop right now.
Okay, this is my Google Drive.
And just like I mentioned before, it's 90% full.
I'm using 1360.
4gb out of 15GB.
Now, this is the free plan.
And what I do intend to do is upgrade
to the paid plan just in case Short Pixel doesn't do the trick for me.
Now let's check out the deals going on right now.
Short Pixel has a lifetime deal
for the Google Drive compressor, but heads up, if you previously bought
a lifetime deal from Short Pixel, you are getting this feature for free.
So you don't have to buy this in case you bought a past deal.
If not, then this deal might be for you.
It's $59 for the lifetime deal and it gets
you access to this compressor for the Google Drive.
Let me show you the lifetime deal.
It's GDPR compliant.
The storage is encrypted when they use
this drive, but it's still a concern for some people.
In my case, I have nothing to hide.
I mean, Google already has access
to my file, so it doesn't matter if they can print it.
So the $59 gets you the unlimited
Google Drive credits, unlimited optimization on the single
Google Drive single and 200 WordPress image optimization credits one time use.
So those are lifetime, but once you hit the 200K limit, then they're gone.
Okay, but the Google Drive that is unlimited.
All right, if you need more WordPress
image compression, you can jump into the double stack, which gives you unlimited.
Again, optimization on a single drive.
And they're all on the single drive.
It just upgrades what the WordPress image compression does.
But again, it's one time use.
Those are not recurring month to month. Okay?
Now as I mentioned before, my Google Drive is 90% full.
This is my Short Pixel account.
I am grandfathered to the old plan, but as I mentioned before,
if you haven't purchased it, you'd have to purchase this deal
and that link will be in the description just in case you want to support me.
Because if you buy through that link,
it helps you out with a small Commission, but it's still going to cost you the same.
Okay, so that is going to be right here, Google Drive.
And this is the first settings for it. Okay.
Your data is safe, as always, using cryptic connections.
All right.
And like I mentioned, it's going to download the images,
PDFs and videos you selected and optimizes them on our servers.
So that is the short Pixel servers.
Okay, let's go.
Next updating, the optimized files.
So yes, we are giving them right access to it, read and write.
For obvious reasons, we have to give that access.
Okay.
And now let me continue and connect my Google Drive to this.
This is the first time I'm doing it.
I have no idea what the results are going to be.
So as I mentioned before, I might be surprised.
So let me connect. There we go.
I have just been connected to Google Drive.
It's reading my files. There we go.
It's been read it and it says select folder using this option,
many options to optimize the images and PDFs inside of it.
Okay. So if I have files outside
of Google Drive, which I do that are not inside of a folder, I am being asked
to put them inside because I can't optimize if they're not inside a folder.
So, okay, let's start optimizing these files.
And it's given me the option to select the compression level.
So loosely glossy and loses the amount of compression.
So if you want to kind of compress it. Yes.
And really compress the looseness, you might view differences in the image.
So you will notice kind of graininess some pixelation if you use too much.
There's also the Resize to maximum in case they are too big.
It'll Resize it keep the excess info,
which I don't care, convert CMYK files to RGB now.
No. So let's go ahead and optimize.
All right, let's do this for every single one of these.
Okay, so now I found files on this folder.
But what I just did is I've added all these files into one folder.
So I'm going to refresh it.
There we go. I've added this folder just in case
there were files lying around outside of my Google Drive.
So again, I'm going to optimize this.
So now it's finding files to optimize inside of.
There also.
So on this one, it's downloading the files like it mentioned before.
It's going to download it, compress them,
and then send them back to my Google Drive and replace the files.
Okay, so on this one, it found 25 of them.
So it's downloaded them.
So let's give it a couple of minutes and then come back.
Oh, it's seen it's optimizing now,
but let's give it a couple of minutes and come back.
Okay, just quick heads up.
There it was downloading, it was optimizing, and now it's uploading.
So just right here what I'm seeing out of the 25 files that it could optimize.
It optimize
5% out of those files, which is pretty good, right?
But it's just 25 images.
The bad thing is that my storage is not relying on that.
So there's other type of files that it's not optimizing.
So let's go ahead and wait for the other results.
There we go.
It just finished optimizing and out of the 184 files, it optimized 88.
94% from those files.
Now let's see how much change it has done.
Let's go back into my drive.
Remember, it was 13 point 64GB.
I doubt there's going to be a lot
of change because there wasn't a lot of images on my Google Drive.
Let's refresh it.
And now it's 13 point 55GB.
So not a lot of compression that makes me
so it's going to make me buy the storage because it's almost full.
But that was due because these other folders don't contain images and PDFs.
That is what it's going to optimize.
So I was glad I made this test for you guys.
So in case that your drive is not
saturated with files that are images or PDFs, then this deal might not be for you.
Because if most of the files are not those type of files, it's not going to do a lot
of difference, just like you saw on my test.
But if your Google Drive is mostly full
with images and PDFs, then yes, it's going to optimize 75% plus of those
files and compression to give you more storage on your Google Drive.
Well clean it up to have more storage. But there you go.
You saw that test.
If you guys want to grab that deal, it's right here.
I'm going to leave the link in the description.
Like I mentioned before, it starts at $59 for the lifetime deal
and well, you can use it at unlimited times on that Google Drive.
Now it optimizes on a single Google Drive.
What I don't know is if I can disconnect
and connect another one and also do the process well, I'm going to make the test.
Let's go check it out.
Okay, so it did work.
I was able to disconnect the Google Drive
not from Short Pixel, but from my Google Drive.
So all I did was go into the gear icon for settings, the settings,
and then I head on over to manage apps and I disconnected Short Pixel refreshed
and then connected to another Google Drive.
So quick tip there you can connect them, disconnect and then connect another one.
So that's a little workaround for the Single World Drive account.
The only downside is you can't have it connected all the time.
You would have to do those switches.
But there you go.
Like I said, if you have a bunch of images
and PDFs, then this deal is well worth it to compress them.
But if your Google Drive is mostly other
type of files, then you can surely skip this one.
Unless every amount of megabyte is worth it.
Then you might want to invest in this.
Well, I thank you for watching. My name is George.
This is SaaS Master. And I'll see you guys later.
Bye.