How to Allow Large File Upload in Google Forms
Learn how to enable large file uploads in Google Forms, including adjusting file size limits and managing upload settings effectively.
You may be running into trouble when you're trying to upload large files to a Google Form . I'm going to show you how to get over that and allow large files. Here we have a pitch submission form. We have a brief pitch in text, but we also have an upload here. If you haven't gotten an upload yet, click on add a question and select on the right file upload. This will create an upload option for you. You can also delete this one down here by just clicking the trash icon. So we have an upload here. We are not allowing any specific file types. If we want to allow something like specifically video, we can. If we need a restricted number of files or expand them, we can change it from 1 to 5 to 10. Here, you may be running into this problem, maximum file size. And if you click on 1 gigabyte or even 10 gigabytes, you'll see this alert message. How to Create a Google Form Automatically How to Send Google Forms Entries Automatically with Apps Script Add Text Question to Google Form
And it says this form is no longer accepting responses. Because a single response can exceed the one gigabyte total size limit . Let's change that. So you can click on change here, this will bring you over to the settings up here on these three tabs, questions, responses, and settings. Click on settings, scroll down, And it says total size limit for all uploaded files. Here, we can even see the red gives us our alert. We can change this, from one gigabyte to ten, to a hundred gigabytes, even to one terabyte. And then, once this form gets responses that gets to that limit , it'll stop taking in uploads. But you can restrict this also to a hundred gigabytes. If you don't want a terabyte, this will go on your Google drive. So watch out. Don't allow anyone and everyone on the internet to upload files here. How to Create a Google Form Automatically Add Text Question to Google Form
Back to our questions. We do not have that alert anymore. We can accept one gigabyte, 10 gigabyte files Just know that it will stop accepting files once it reaches that limit . If you're looking to get way more out of your Google sheets than you ever have before, consider subscribing here on better sheets on YouTube. Get Every Editor on Every Google File I Own What's Better Than Google Sheets? How to Save Google Sheets