How to free up space in your Gmail inbox

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

Marking "Read" does not mean that you got rid of the received letter. It still eats up the often necessary space, only now in a different section. I'll show you how to get rid of the junk in your inbox, optimize the content of the rest of the Google ecosystem, and eliminate the additional spending on an extended account in the cloud.

Google allocates 15 GB of storage by default. This is a unified amount of memory, which means that, in addition to messages, photos, documents and everything that you have ever associated with your Gmail account use it.

Arm yourself with information

First, let's figure out how much free space is left and what the rest of the gigabytes are occupied with. It's pretty easy to find out: you can find statistics in the lower left corner of your mailbox. Clicking on "Manage" opens a list of advanced packages for critical situations.

This is the easiest way to fix your space shortage, but if you're worried that $ 2 a month for 100GB won't pay off, there are several free ways to optimize your personal space on your Google Account. I'll tell you about them today.

We find benefits in standard categories

By default, Gmail can sort emails into several standard categories. To view them and find out what they are responsible for, click on the gear in the upper right corner and select the "Inbox" tab. For a start, it would be nice to clean up the "Promotions" section.

They collect mainly advertising mailings, which you may not even be aware of. Moreover, they are often replete with pictures, which means they take up a lot of space. Move the necessary letters from this section and mark the rest by clicking on the "All" button from the checkbox context menu in the upper left corner. They can be immediately sent to the trash can.

Unsubscribe

Okay, fighting the spam mailing method described above is like chopping off the head of a hydra: another one will appear in its place. A more effective way is to remove your mailing address from all advertising lists. This can be done the old fashioned way by clicking on the Unsubscribe link at the end of the advertising message, or, if you have an Android smartphone, click on the item of the same name in the list of options, indicated by a vertical ellipsis.

But going to external web pages every time, where you need to enter a mailing address, and sometimes specially log into the system and rummage through the settings, is a grueling task. There is an easier option, because Google allows you to block senders. Open the mailing list that you are tired of, and in the drop-down menu on the right, select "Block sender".

This will not save you from receiving emails, but now they will go to the "Spam" section, from where they will be automatically deleted after 30 days.

Google remembers everything

Notes from iPhone and even Gchat, which you may have last used so long ago that you have already forgotten, are all saved forever in your account. In the left column under the button for creating a letter, click "More" and go through the list of the contents of the mailbox. Pay special attention to Notes and Chats.

Getting rid of excess weight

You may not remember this, but over the entire time of using Gmail, you have probably accumulated letters that exceed reasonable size. It is unlikely that you want to continue to store them.

Find them will help the search bar, which when you click on the triangle "Show search parameters" opens in the advanced version, where filters for topics, keywords, sender, recipient and, most importantly, size are set. By the way, I immediately got rid of a dozen messages that took more than 20 megabytes.

We carry out an audit of Google Drive and Photos

Since Google Account space is shared, gallery optimization will free up space for mail. Therefore, if you are using Photos to back up your images, I highly recommend choosing "High quality" instead of "Original size" in the settings.

In this case, you get unlimited storage space for slightly compressed, but almost identical in quality photos.

To view detailed information about the content of Google Drive, click on the blue "i" icon in the lower left corner of "Get More Space". A list of files will open, sorted by size, which will help you quickly get rid of large and unnecessary items.