Storage-Full Notifications Persist After Paying for Additional Cloud Space
A user who paid for additional Google storage continues to receive repeated storage-full notifications, suggesting the account's storage status isn't reliably updated or reflected after a paid upgrade. This creates confusion about whether the extra space was actually applied to the account.
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