When family members have trouble with their computers, phones, or anything Internet-related, they normally come to me for help. To be honest, I am not a nerd, and I don't know most things they ask about, but I do know how to find help on the Internet. So, when my mother-in-law said that her 15gb of free storage with her Google account was getting full, she came to me for help.
At first, I looked for big files on her Google Drive, but I was surprised to see that she only had one image stored normally. The size was 2mb. In other words, those 15GB of free storage was used by something else.
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That is when I realized that she had LOTS of storage used for emails. But, what can you do if you want to find the largest emails in your Gmail inbox, in order to delete them and free up storage space?
Don't forget, those small emails when you have tens of thousands of them will also use quite a lot of disk space, so you better delete those as well after a while.
How to find large emails in Gmail?
There is no simple filter function in Gmail that will show you the largest emails first. But, what you can do instead is to use the following functions and it will help you find those big beasts.
size:10MB
Type the command above in the search field at the top of the Gmail interface. You will suddenly see all emails in your inbox sized 10MB or more. And when you start deleting those emails from your list, you will quickly see disk space freed up (it is first added to trash and it will be deleted from there after 30 days). You can also go to your trash bin and delete it all yourself (if you don't want to wait 30 days).
smaller:1MB
If you for some reason want to find small emails, then you can use the command above to find emails smaller than 1MB.
larger:10MB smaller:20MB
This is combining those two functions. Here you will see all emails sized more than 10MB, but smaller than 20MB. Feel free to change the variables, and you will be able to get rid of emails of all sorts and clean up your Gmail account.
Thank you for reading, and hope you have found these instructions useful!
This is an original article written by me for Project Hope! First published on Hive
Hi @unbiasedwriter, I think we have at hand a great tool, which is the Internet. You may not be a specialist in something, but by knowing how to search you can achieve great things and solve great problems. This you share is a sample of that.
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That is so true... and that is how the human brain has changed I believe as well. Earlier, people learned and knew all kinds of stuff. Today, the world is made up of people who know how to find out how to do things, instead of knowing how to do it. But, if you know how to find the solution, you can also solve the problem, so it is awesome still :)
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