How to delete "deleted" files on Google Drive?

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The problem is this. At work, you need to exchange rather large files with a friend. We use Google Drive. A shared folder is created on it, and everyone has a desktop client configured (this is important). Accordingly, I throw a file into the folder, it is automatically uploaded to the disk, the friend sees it, picks it up and deletes it so that it does not take up space. Accordingly, this file also disappears for me, including from the local folder, everything is fine.
The problem is that such files disappear from everywhere in Google Drive, but are not actually deleted and continue to take up space. You can see them only by opening the quota section ( https://drive.google.com/drive/quota) where all stored files are listed in order of space occupied. And just there all these deleted files will lie quietly.
The "location" parameter for such files is generally absent. Those. they are not assigned to any directory on drive, so they cannot be seen. In the "history" section, they have only two items: created then by so-and-so, deleted - then by so-and-so. But despite this - the file continues to take up space. I have already accumulated 100Gb of such files...
Periodically I go to the quota section and delete these "dead souls". But this is getting harder and harder to do. There are a lot of files, of course, large ones are immediately visible, but a bunch of small ones are mixed with regular files (in the quota section there are all files in a row without a hierarchy at all), and it is difficult to select the deleted ones from them.
In general, I'm looking for any way to solve the problem. Can a script search for such files, or overlooked some settings? .. Of course, you can write to google support, but I doubt that this bug (if it is a bug) will be a priority for them. Moreover, this state of affairs encourages the user to buy additional disk space.
I would be grateful for any hints. Thank you!
upd. Just in case, I emphasize that these files are not in the basket on google drive.

Answer 1

Deleted files are placed first in the trash ( https://drive.google.com/drive/trash ). Therefore, you can not search among the entire list in ( https://drive.google.com/drive/quota ), but go to the trash, press ctrl + a to select all files, right-click and delete.

Answer 2

and it's even better to use Hiubic without all these troubles, but the speed can be less

Answer 3

Similar problem. Disk space is taken up by files that have no location and have been deleted by my colleagues. It's not clear how to find these files or put them in a single list...
UPD: It seems that they found the answer here: Why doesn't Google Drive really empty the trash?
Full article
https://support.google.com/drive/answer/1716222?hl...