Gmail storage full? How to fix?

[29dogs]

I wasn't sure where to post this so I'm posting it here.

I keep getting told by gmail that my storage in 99% full. TBH I think they just want me to upgrade the storage and pay them a premium but I don't want another subscription.

I went through my inbox and deleted what I could but I just can't get it down. Does anyone know how I can lower the percentage so that I don't have to pay them? I really don't want to have to make a new gmail account.

Thanks!

 

[Dopious]

I solved it by buying a $2 per month One subscription, it was the easiest way to solve it.

 

[Zwielicht]

I dealt with this recently and started off by clearing some of my old attachments since that's what Gmail was recommending.

I get not wanting to have yet another subscription as I'm tired of everything being a subscription. I managed to resolve this and bring my storage down by deleting emails in the promotions and social tabs. I had around 6k emails in the social tab and 29k in the promotions tab. If you click the checkbox to bulk select, there's a button you can select that says "Select all xx,xxxx conversations in Social". Click that and then delete them.

Gmail will send these to your trash bin and delete them after 30 days. If you need the storage space now, you can manually empty the trash bin and reclaim the storage space.

As a heads up, Gmail can get a little laggy whilst it works on this depending on how many emails you're deleting.

 

[t2van]

I wasn't sure where to post this so I'm posting it here.

I keep getting told by gmail that my storage in 99% full. TBH I think they just want me to upgrade the storage and pay them a premium but I don't want another subscription.

I went through my inbox and deleted what I could but I just can't get it down. Does anyone know how I can lower the percentage so that I don't have to pay them? I really don't want to have to make a new gmail account.

Thanks!

Um deleted old emails!? Do you need copies off stuff in gmail from 2023?

 

[Dopious]

Um deleted old emails!? Do you need copies off stuff in gmail from 2023?

I need my 2004 emails, got some fine lovely spam back in the days, don`t touch my love letters.

 

[29dogs]

I solved it by buying a $2 per month One subscription, it was the easiest way to solve it.

But I don't want another subscription.

Like imagine if you have to pay $2 a month for a hundred different things. That's $200 a month that's getting sucked out of my bank! Just cause I can afford it doesn't mean I want to give it to Google and everything else penny pinching me.

I dealt with the recently and started off by clearing some of my old attachments since that's what Gmail was recommending.

I get not wanting to have yet another subscription as I'm tired of everything being a subscription. I managed to resolve this and bring my storage down by deleting emails in the promotions and social tabs. I had around 6k emails in the social tab and 29k in the promotions tab. If you click the checkbox to bulk select, there's a button you can select that says "Select all xx,xxxx conversations in Social". Click that and then delete them.

Gmail will send these to your trash bin and delete them after 30 days. If you need the storage space now, you can manually empty the trash bin and reclaim the storage space.

As a heads up, Gmail can get a little laggy whilst it works on this depending on how many emails you're deleting.

I didn't think to check those tabs I was only looking at attachments like Google showed me. I will look at that later to see if that helps.

How much space did you manage to clear down by doing this?

Um deleted old emails!? Do you need copies off stuff in gmail from 2023?

Yes! I sometimes keep stuff in there in case I ever need it to prove something. Maybe I don't need all of them but I haven't found the time to go through them individually.

 

[t2van]

But I don't want another subscription.

Like imagine if you have to pay $2 a month for a hundred different things. That's $200 a month that's getting sucked out of my bank! Just cause I can afford it doesn't mean I want to give it to Google and everything else penny pinching me.

I didn't think to check those tabs I was only looking at attachments like Google showed me. I will look at that later to see if that helps.

How much space did you manage to clear down by doing this?

Yes! I sometimes keep stuff in there in case I ever need it to prove something. Maybe I don't need all of them but I haven't found the time to go through them individually.

I'm paying over £150 for my Google emails. $2 a month is fuck all.

I think if you have to worry about proving something after 3 years you can get away with it.

If you was a larger business id understand keeping 6 years plus but then you wouldn't be quibbling over 2 dollar.





@Dopious clearly a digital horder

 

[polecat]

Just pay for the upgrade like £1.50 for month not much money if not you will find it will become problem all the time even if you delete a lot it will happen again soon enough.

 

[Zwielicht]

I didn't think to check those tabs I was only looking at attachments like Google showed me. I will look at that later to see if that helps.

How much space did you manage to clear down by doing this?

Well, the most recent email they sent me on January 28th said that my storage was nearly full at 98% (14.83GB out of the 15GB limit)

After deleting the promotion and social tab emails, I brought it down to 59% (8.87GB).

If you decide to do this, make sure those emails aren't actually useful to you. For me, it was mostly just Linkedin and Nextdoor nonsense in the social tab and the promotions were essentially just spam.

 

[BlogPro]

Are you using an Android phone?

Do you have Whatsapp, Photos etc. set to backup to your drive?

The storage is shared between Gmail and apps that backup.

 

[Rem]

I wasn't sure where to post this so I'm posting it here.

I keep getting told by gmail that my storage in 99% full. TBH I think they just want me to upgrade the storage and pay them a premium but I don't want another subscription.

I went through my inbox and deleted what I could but I just can't get it down. Does anyone know how I can lower the percentage so that I don't have to pay them? I really don't want to have to make a new gmail account.

Thanks!

download thunderbird or something
saved ur emails and back them up
delete the rest
although, unless ur email is very heavy rich in html or files
the problem is most likely elsewhere, maybe ur google drive and photos
just click https://drive.google.com/drive/quota
should bring u to a page where it breaks down what u have
delete what u dont need

ps. if u have lots of "bakup" files in ur google drive
u can always move that to a "spare" gmail acc instead if u dont use it regularly.

 

[t2van]

download thunderbird or something
saved ur emails and back them up
delete the rest
although, unless ur email is very heavy rich in html or files
the problem is most likely elsewhere, maybe ur google drive and photos
just click https://drive.google.com/drive/quota
should bring u to a page where it breaks down what u have
delete what u dont need

ps. if u have lots of "bakup" files in ur google drive
u can always move that to a "spare" gmail acc instead if u dont use it regularly.

Latest thunderbird syncs with gmail now so unless you archive if you delete locally or online it will delete visa versa at least mine does

 

[ggmopa]

Isn't it like 15gb free? Then it skyrockets as part of the workspace plans? Consider switching if you don't use any of Google's apps. I use Posteo for personal emails. Simple nononsense email provider. Like 10 cents per alias and 25 cents per GB. And they don't go through your stuff either.