How to free up space in the mailbox Gmail

Marked as 'read' does not mean that you get rid of the email you received. It is all the same eats often required space, only now in a different section. I'll tell you how to get rid of the junk in your mailbox, optimize content in other Google products and an ecosystem to abandon the additional spending on advanced account in the cloud.

By default, Google allocates 15 GB of storage. This unified memory space, which means that in addition to messages, it uses pictures, documents and everything that you have ever been associated with a Gmail account.

Armed with the information

To begin with we shall understand how much free space is left and how busy the rest of gigabytes. I know it's pretty easy: Statistics can be found in the lower left corner of the mailbox. By clicking on the "Management" opens the list of expansion packs for emergencies.

This is the easiest way to solve the problem of lack of space, but if you are afraid that the $ 2 per month for 100GB yourself not justified, there are several free ways to optimize personal space account Google. About them today and I'll tell you.

We find benefit in standard categories

Gmail by default can sort letters to a few standard categories. "" Inbox "folder to view them and learn what they are responsible, press the GEAR in the upper right corner and select the tab. For a start it would be nice to clean the section "Promotions".

There are going to mostly promotional mailing, which you may not even be in charge. Moreover, they are often rife with pictures, and then take up a lot of space. Transfer the desired letter from this section and note the other by pressing the "All" from the context menu checkbox in the top left corner. They can be immediately sent to the trash.

legate

Okay, to fight the manner described above with spamming is like cutting off the head of the hydra: in its place will be another one. More effective way - to remove your email address from all the advertising lists. This can be done the old fashioned way, by clicking on the Unsubscribe link at the end of the advertising message, or if you Android-smartphone, click on the eponymous element of the list of options indicated by vertical ellipsis.

But the move each time to an external web page where you want to enter a postal address, and sometimes specifically to go in and dig in the settings - a grueling task. There is a simpler version, because Google allows you to block senders. Open the e-mail that you are tired of, and in the drop-down menu to the right, select the "Block Sender".

This does not relieve you from receiving letters, but now they will get into the section "Spam", where it will be deleted after 30 days.

Google remembers everything

Notes from the iPhone and even Gchat, which you may have used for the last time so long ago that have forgotten - all this is forever stored in your account. In the left column under the button create a form letter, click "More" and go over the contents of the list box. Pay attention to the "Notes" and "Chatham".

Getting rid of excess weight

You may not remember this, but for all the time using Gmail you probably have accumulated letters that exceed reasonable limits. It is unlikely that you want to continue to store them.

Find help them search string, which when you click on the triangle "Show search options" opens in extended version, which set filters by keywords, sender, recipient, and, most importantly, sizes. By the way, I immediately got rid of a dozen posts, which occupied more than 20 megabytes.

Conduct an audit of Google Drive, and Photos

Since a Google Account the total space, galleries optimization will free up space for the mail. Therefore, if you use Photos to back up your images, we strongly recommend that in the settings select "high quality" instead of "Initial Size".

In this case, you get unlimited storage space for a little compressed, but virtually identical in quality photos.

To view detailed information about the contents of Google Drive, click on the blue «i» icon in the lower left corner of the "Get more space." A list of files sorted by size, which will help to quickly get rid of large and unwanted items.