Reclaim Storage Space in Gmail
Posted: February 01, 2022
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Long gone are the days of unlimited cloud storage space - even for email, and running out of email space can be frustrating. Many rely on email as a "back-up" method for important information and want to have an archive for reference. Even though Gmail offers 15 GB of storage, the possibility of running out of space is still high, especially since it's shared among photos, files, etc. You can find yourself running out of space pretty quickly. Fortunately, there's a workaround to reclaim some of that space, without having to delete the emails for good.
Jared Newman, contributor to
PCWorld, gives insight on how to free up space without deleting anything.
Many years ago, Google promised that you’d never have to worry about running out of
Gmail storage. That was before the company stopped expanding Gmail’s free storage space in 2013 and gave everyone a flat 15GB to use across all Google services. Hitting Gmail’s storage limit has started to feel inevitable as a result. You may even run out of space even faster now that Google has
stopped offering unlimited Google Photos. If you’re still backing up your smartphone photos with Google, those uploads will eat into your Gmail storage space as well.
Fortunately, there’s a way to free up a large amount of Gmail storage without deleting any emails:
Read the entire article,
Out of Gmail storage? Reclaim space by moving emails to a new account, on
PCWorld.