Google limits the space you have on Gmail and Google drive (or Gdrive) to 15 GB. If you are bumping up against that limit, here are some tricks to use:
My favorite is clearing out large files (which are often digital photos you already have somewhere else if you want them).
Read more here:
http://fieldguide.gizmodo.com/5-quick-ways-to-free-up-space-in-your-gmail-account-1605253430
My favorite is clearing out large files (which are often digital photos you already have somewhere else if you want them).
Search by size
Once upon a time you couldn't search for emails by size in Gmail, but now you most certainly can. Enter
In my own creaking Gmail account I found 356 emails that were 5MB or bigger, which works out at at least 1.78GB of room that can be cleared. If you regularly use your Gmail account to handle high-resolution photos or PDFs then you might come across more matching messages than you expect.larger:5m
to find messages of 5MB or above, or open up the search drop-down dialog and use the size option there.Read more here:
http://fieldguide.gizmodo.com/5-quick-ways-to-free-up-space-in-your-gmail-account-1605253430