Recipe Find Large Files

A straightforward two-step recipe for tracking down storage hogs in Google Drive. Runs a single gws command to pull your 20 largest files sorted by quota usage, displaying them in a clean table with names, sizes, types, and owners. Perfect when you're bumping against storage limits and need to quickly identify what's eating up space without clicking through folders. The output gives you exactly what you need to decide what to archive, delete, or move to cheaper storage. Requires the gws-drive skill but otherwise just works.

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last updated: Aug 21, 2026

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Install

$ npx -y skills add googleworkspace/cli --skill recipe-find-large-files --agent claude-code

Installs into .claude/skills of the current project.

Files

Find Largest Files in Drive

PREREQUISITE: Load the following skills to execute this recipe: gws-drive

Identify large Google Drive files consuming storage quota.

Steps

List files sorted by size: gws drive files list --params '{"orderBy": "quotaBytesUsed desc", "pageSize": 20, "fields": "files(id,name,size,mimeType,owners)"}' --format table
Review the output and identify files to archive or move

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