Clearing Space on your Gmail acct

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).

Search by size

Once upon a time you couldn't search for emails by size in Gmail, but now you most certainly can. Enter larger:5m to find messages of 5MB or above, or open up the search drop-down dialog and use the size option there.

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.

Read more here:
http://fieldguide.gizmodo.com/5-quick-ways-to-free-up-space-in-your-gmail-account-1605253430  

Privacy Issues: Google, Gmail & Internet Privacy

The headline reads:

Google says people can't expect privacy when sending to Gmail

Many people have feared that privacy was not as crystal clear as some would hope.  And these fears are being realized all the time, as we move forward.  As in life, there are many blurred lines when dealing with tough issues.  Should large internet firms provide governments and law enforcement agencies with information that some say should be totally private?  What if it helps against "evil-doers?"  But then, at what point -- and who -- decides how far this can go?  

In any case, the article continues:

If you care about privacy, it's time to drop Google.

That's what Consumer Watchdog is recommending following Google's admission that people shouldn't expect privacy when they send messages to a Gmail account, any more than people would were they to send a business letter that could be opened by an assistant.

Read more here:

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2013/08/14/google-says-gmail-users-cant-expect-privacy/?utm_source=Naked+Security+-+Sophos+List&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=ec2b87c365-naked%252Bsecurity&utm_term=0_31623bb782-ec2b87c365-454766885

GMail Cleanup

Here's a great article on cleaning up your

In particular, the last few steps will help you delete UNREAD emails that are old and HOPEFULLY unimportant!

Search for:
in:inbox is:unread
Then, click on "All" and then delete...

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Click here for the whole article:
http://www.wikihow.com/Clean-out-Your-Gmail-Inbox

1. Type "in:inbox before:2009/08/01" (use whatever date you have chosen) in the search box, and click "Search". The format of the date is important. It must be in the form YYYY/MM/DD, with all 4 digits of the year listed first, then the month with two digits, and finally the date with two digits.
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   Select all of these messages by clicking "All" then "Select all conversations that match this search", just like you did above.
   
   
   
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   Take a deep breath, and click "Delete".