One of the Gmail accounts in the Aamoth family recently started showing the dreaded “Account storage is full” banner, which means it’s time for a good scrubbing.
It’s no surprise: with all the emails, attachments, and documents we accumulate over time, it’s easy for our Gmail accounts to run out of available storage.
Fortunately, there are a few easy ways to free up Gmail space in minutes.
Delete old email
One of the easiest ways to free up space is to regularly go through your inbox and delete emails you no longer need.
And since that old mail is often less important than new mail, here’s a trick to start from the past and move on.
Place your cursor on the Gmail search bar and click the slider icon on the far right side. This will open a menu with a number of parameters that you can use to search for specific items.
But try this: Instead of typing any search terms, just click the blue Search button in the lower right corner. Congratulations: you have searched and found all the emails you have.
Click on the email icon in the top right above the list of messages and select “Oldest” to display all your messages from oldest to newest. Then start making your way, removing anything you no longer need.
Unsubscribe and remove unwanted newsletters and promos
Newsletters, promotional emails, and other subscriptions can quickly fill your inbox.
One quick way to unsubscribe: enter “Unsubscribe” in the search box. That will call out all messages with the word “unsubscribe” in them, which is found at the bottom of most newsletters and advertising messages.
Don’t go through too many messages and, even better, take the time to unsubscribe from senders you no longer want to hear from.
Delete messages with large attachments
Emails with large attachments can consume a lot of storage space. To manage this, place your cursor on the search bar and click the slider icon on the far right.
In the menu that appears, click the “Has Attached” checkbox and enter “5” in the Size row. This will display messages with attachments larger than 5 MB.
Those are big attachments, so go through and delete anything you don’t need. You can repeat the process by entering 4, 3, 2, and 1 to decrease the message sizes.
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