Google Drive Blocks Re-Downloading Large Files After Hitting an Opaque Quota Even for Paid Users
A paying 2TB Google Drive subscriber uploaded a 350GB file, deleted the local source copy to free space, and then found they could no longer download the file back due to a Download Quota exceeded error, with no support available to resolve it. This traps large files in a state where a paying customer can neither retrieve nor recover their own data through normal means.
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