It is very likely that you have a Gmail account . Either because you use Google services such as Gmail, YouTube or Google Drive, or because you like managing your email through this free service. Easy to use, always available, and with plenty of space, Gmail is a good email service. But it is inevitable that your tray or folders fill up and that you are forced to free up space.
In principle, Gmail offers 15 GB of available space. That space is shared with Google Drive and with Google Photos. More than enough for your email. At least if you don't abuse sending and receiving attachments . But everything has a solution. Let's see how you can free up space and get a neat and organized inbox .
To for Gmail attachments
Let's start with the main reason why your Gmail account is saturated. Email messages take up very little space. The 15 GB that Google offers for free usually go in heavy files such as songs, videos or photographs .
To free up space in your Gmail account and get more space for more email messages, Gmail provides us with a way to detect which messages are the heaviest . So you can download attachments, save and / or delete them, and delete large messages.
From the Gmail search field, clicking on it will display the advanced search options. We are only interested in the option Contains attachments , which we will mark. Then we click on Search . Thanks to this filter, we will only see email messages with attachments . This will make it easier and faster for you to find large emails and you will free up space in a matter of minutes .
A for emails big
A solution similar to the previous one is to search for emails that exceed a certain number. Google recommends this solution to find large messages . Specifically, it allows you to search for messages larger than 10 MB.
Again from the Gmail search box, you must enter the command has: attachment larger: 10M. What it will do is display email messages that contain attachments larger than 10MB . You can change the number to another.
Clean the Gmail Spam folder from time to time
It seems like a truism, but you would be surprised by people who forget the Gmail Spam folder. A folder where unwanted or suspicious messages go. One of the things Gmail does best is process spam.
But the messages classified as such end up in a forgotten folder that accumulates amount of emails taking up space. To free up that deep space, you just have to go to the Spam folder and empty it. Hopefully, she will have done it by herself.
The past is past
Although with the previous tricks we will have already gotten rid of the heaviest of Gmail, we can still do some cleaning and free up space while we remove outdated or outdated content .
There are old messages to keep, but other emails may have expired and are of little use. What's more, if you want to save them, you can download them to your computer and leave free space in Gmail.
To view Gmail messages by age, we can use in the search box the command older: YYYY / MM / DD where A is Year, M is Month and D is Day. For example, I want to see my emails before 2015. Well let's look for older: 2015/01/01.
With the results, you will see if there are messages that deserve to be saved or messages that you can send to the Trash without anything happening.
Beware of Google Drive and Google Photos
We said that Gmail shares with Google Drive and Google Photos the available storage space . That is, the free 15 GB must be shared with your files and Drive Documents or with your photos and videos from Google Photos.
Tricks to free up space and have more volume in your Gmail tray. First, keep in mind that shared drives in Google Drive do not affect available space. For its part, Google Photos takes up space if you save photos and videos in original quality .
