 I lost count of how many emails I got when Google announced a change to its storage policies, doing away with unlimited storage for photos and videos. Show Still, trying to figure out a better long-term photo management solution? I can help. Tap or click to see all the free storage you can get. If you have an Amazon Prime account, you’re in luck. Or maybe you only rely on Google’s services for search and email. Tap or click for 10 buried settings and features in your inbox. My favorite is Undo Send. If your Google storage is full, or nearly full, photos might be the culprit. But you might be surprised to find out how much space emails and attachments take up. Years and years of files If you’re like me, you’ve had the same email account for years. Heck, your Gmail might even date back to 2004 when you had to get an invite to the beta version. Want to be shocked? You can see your old chat logs going back years. Tap or click to see yours and clear them out. Now think about all the emails you have saved – or just archived to clear your inbox. Sure, you delete spam and junk, but what an email from a friend from years ago? I bet it’s still hanging around. Plain text emails are one thing attachments you really don’t need anymore can eat up a ton of space. Let’s clear them out. 3 ways to clear space in your Google account Finding and deleting attachments is step one. Doing this task manually isn't going to cut it. That would take forever. Here's a simple, fast way to track down big files. • Open your Gmail account in a browser. In the Search box, type has:attachment larger:10M and hit enter. You can sub in whatever size you prefer. • You can filter further using the buttons under the search bar. • Open each email individually or mark the check boxes next to each email you want to trash, then hit the trash can icon. You can open up even more space by permanently deleting emails sitting in your spam folder. To do so: • In the left-hand menu, click Spam. If you don’t see Spam, click More. • At the top, click Delete all spam messages now. You can also open an individual email, then click Delete forever. What about Google Drive? If you have years of docs, spreadsheets and other files saved, give those a cleanup as well. • Open your Google Drive by going to drive.google.com on a computer. • In the left-hand menu, click Storage. • This will bring up a list of all your files, sorted from largest to smallest. If the smallest appears at the top, hit Storage used to filter. • To remove a file, right-click and choose Remove. • Tip: Be sure to download or make a backup elsewhere if this is a file you might need down the road. Within 24 hours, deleted items will show in the available space in your Google Drive account. Here’s one more simple step you can take. The Files by Google app helps you find all the junk files eating up space. It’s an easy way to delete memes, screenshots, and blurry shots. Tap or click here for step-by-step instructions. Bonus Tip: Starting a podcast? 4 tips that can make or break it To make a successful podcast, you need solid storytelling and production skills. That's why I sat down with audio expert Valerie Geller to break down the biggest mistakes audio pioneers make. We share anecdotes from our own careers, tips that worked for us and the top four ways you can reel in listeners and boost your ratings. Check out my podcast “Kim Komando Explains” on Apple, Google Podcasts, or your favorite podcast player. Or you can listen here on my site. Learn about all the latest technology on the Kim Komando Show, the nation's largest weekend radio talk show. Kim takes calls and dispenses advice on today's digital lifestyle, from smartphones and tablets to online privacy and data hacks. For her daily tips, free newsletters and more, visit her website at Komando.com. The views and opinions expressed in this column are the author’s and do not necessarily reflect those of USA TODAY. Gmail includes 15GB of free storage, and that’s shared with Google Drive and Google Photos. Here’s how to find—and delete—the emails using the most space in your Gmail account. Try this before paying for
more storage! You can view how much total storage your Gmail account is using from the Google One Storage page. However, this page doesn’t let you quickly find out how to free up that space. It redirects you to Gmail and leaves you on your own. Sure, you could start deleting emails one by one, but there’s a good chance you have tens of thousands of emails—at a minimum. That will take forever. Worse yet: Many of those emails are tiny, and you’ll barely free up space by deleting them. Google wants you to purchase more storage in order to store all those old emails forever. But you can free yourself from those old emails and avoid that monthly bill. Here’s how. RELATED: Why You Should Delete Emails Instead of Archiving Them How to Find and Delete the Largest Email MessagesGmail doesn’t actually show how much storage space each email thread uses. However, Gmail does let you search for threads by size. To do this, search using the “size:” operator in Gmail. For example, to search for emails over 20MB in size, type the following text into the search bar and press Enter: size:20mb If you delete five of the email threads that appear, you’ll have freed up at least 100MB. Now you know which emails to delete to free up space as quickly as possible. To delete an email thread, open it and click the “Delete” icon that looks like a trash icon on the toolbar. To delete multiple threads, select them using the checkboxes and click the trash icon to delete them all at once. Work your way down the list in size—for example, “size:10mb” will show all email threads 10MB or larger in size. Be sure to empty Gmail’s trash to permanently delete the emails and free up space. These emails will be using a lot of space because of their file attachments. Unfortunately, there’s no easy way to delete a file attachment while keeping the email. If the email is important to you, you can forward it to yourself (and remove the attachment while you do so), and then delete the original. You can also print the email to PDF and then delete it. Or, if the attachments are important, you can download them and store them elsewhere before deleting the email. How to Quickly Delete Large Numbers of EmailsThere’s a good chance that you have large numbers of useless, outdated emails wasting space in your inbox. You probably don’t need to keep all those old email newsletters forever! To quickly find and delete large numbers of useless emails, follow our tips for quickly deleting almost all your junk emails. RELATED: How to Delete Almost All Junk Emails the Easy Way How to Sort Your Gmail Messages by SizeIf you want even more control, we recommend using an IMAP client like Mozilla Thunderbird. Thunderbird will show you exactly how large each email thread is in your Gmail account. You can even sort by size. Work your way down in the list by size, deleting each email you don’t need, and you can free up a lot of space in no time. READ NEXT
How-To Geek is where you turn when you want experts to explain technology. Since we launched in 2006, our articles have been read more than 1 billion times. Want to know more? What happens when Gmail storage is full?Technically, when your Google Mail Inbox is almost full, Gmail will bounce all incoming emails and stop the owner from sending any new messages while completely controlling the situation.
How do I delete thousands of emails in Gmail?Watch video above.. Filter Emails. To get started, log into your Gmail inbox as you'd always do. ... . Select all messages. Next, check a little box under the the search bar to select all displayed messages. ... . Select all Conversations. ... . Delete all Messages. ... . Empty Trash.. How do I clean up my Gmail quickly?Let's look at the easy ways to clean up a Gmail inbox.. Remove Old Attachments. ... . Remove Unused Categories. ... . Remove Yourself From Unnecessary Emailing Lists. ... . Block Spammers and Unwanted Senders. ... . Filter and Delete by Date, Sender, or Content. ... . Use Labels.. |
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