Running out of space on Gmail...

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ld13

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I am almost due for a cleanup as well, sitting at 17.56 GB (92%) of 19 GB used. Deleting all the newsletter type stuff tends to do the trick for me. Your groupon/takealot/etc. The size thing only worked the first few times for me.
 
KleinBoontjie

KleinBoontjie

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why not do an offline archive, everything older than a year. Or does your kind of work require of you to keep all your corespondence, or why do you need everything since the beginning of time, to be online.

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backstreetboy

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tweety2007 said:
I'm on 87% of space on my Gmail (which is 14.81GB), however do not have the time to sift through my mailbox to bring down the size.

Besides buying extra storage, are there any other alternatives to get more space?

The biggest issue is that Gmail does not have the option to sort mails according to size (as this will resolve the issue).
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Or use the advance search https://support.google.com/mail/answer/7190?hl=en

size: Search for messages larger than the specified size in bytes Example: size:1000000
Meaning: All messages larger than 1MB (1,000,000 bytes) in size.
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HavocXphere

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Running into similar problem on gdrive. Turns out photos need more space than I thought.
 
gregmcc

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Setup MailStore Home and archive off mail old than x months.
 
Bryn

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Foxhound5366 said:
Totally. Plus I got my name+surname@gmail.com, so you KNOW I got in early ;)
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I also have <name><surname>@gmail.com. Such a joy.

The crazy thing is I have been using <name><middle name><surname>@gmail.com for years as my Gmail address (for Android and spam stuff only - I have my own domain for my primary address). That's because when I first bought an Android phone and needed a Gmail address my <name><surname> was taken. Then about two months ago I get an email that someone has tried to access <name><surname>@gmail.com in Vietnam. I think wtf, and go through the password reset procedure and low and behold, I owned that address the whole time. I have thousands worth of app purchases tied to my long Gmail address. Based on the dates of the welcome emails, I created it in junior school when Gmail was an invite-only beta and forgot about it.

So anyway, I'm gradually shifting everything over to my 'new' address. And because it's a nice email address it doesn't have to be confined to spam. Fortunately it's easy to use two Google accounts simultaneously, so my apps aren't really affected.
 
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