Gmail Is it Big Enough

Michael Gray

By Michael Gray
In Google, Tools  


So I’ve been living in a brand new Gmail account for almost a month now, and I’ve grown used to it but I, see a problem on the horizon I’m going to run out of space.

In one month I’ve used up 5% of my total storeage space

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If my email habits stay the same sometime around September 2008 I’ll run out of space. So here’s a question for those of you who have been using Gmail for a longer eriod of time, how do you decide what to keep and what to delete, and what are some long term solutions to make sure you don’t run out of space in Gmail?

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{ 6 comments }

Nick garner February 1, 2007 at 3:30 pm

I forward my email from ne@mysite.com to gmail and then keep a copy on outlook on my office machine. I make sure the mail sits on the server for 30 days in case theres a problem.

in time ill purge the gmail of attachments and old stuff knowing its backed up

Tim L. Walker February 16, 2007 at 12:04 pm

I download all my email to Outlook Express… I’m at 20%, and I’ve been using it since it was released (got a fairly early invite). I initially though I would run out of space like you early on, but found that I’m just not getting there. I delete things like notifications and whatnot (forums, blogs, etc)… but keep everything else.

mblair April 16, 2007 at 6:24 am

What Google really needs is a quick and easy way to strip attachments. I’m just out of space and not looking forward to going through and pruning each one individually…

Natasha August 1, 2007 at 2:03 pm

Why not just create another email account if you need more space.

Dmitri August 22, 2007 at 4:33 am

I don’t get it. How can you ran out of 2GB that gmail gives. If not gmail, we would still be having those hotmail 2mb emails.lol 2gb is WAY too much. use “delete all” function to get rid of all spam

Jeff September 19, 2007 at 11:44 pm

Here are my current stats

You are currently using 2347 MB (80%) of your 2902 MB.

This is my main account. I funnel everything into it from 5-6 other email accounts. Hopefully Gmail keeps growing.

Jeff

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