Gmail storage full? How to Get Your Space Back Quickly
Tags: gmailstoragefull, savespace
Published: 2022-08-03 12:40:57

Google claims that the 15 GB of available free storage should be more than sufficient for the average person who receives mail on a regular basis. Well, problems arise when one realises that "average" doesn't really describe their personality or inbox. It's not simple to use up 15 GB of space only for emails, but we've found that it does happen occasionally, generally to users who are uninformed of the reason their Gmail storage is running out.

Technically, Google Mail will entirely control the problem when your inbox is nearly full by bouncing any incoming emails and prohibiting the owner from sending any additional ones. Due to storage limitations, full Gmail accounts become unusable, and there are only a few reliable solutions to return them back to functioning condition.

## Gmail is FULL? No issues

The easiest way to recover some storage space is to simply delete spam, outdated newsletters, trash, and pointless emails, which is easier said than done in practise. However, as Gmail can typically only hold thousands of emails, it will be difficult to separate vital emails from pointless spam mail, minor items from large attachments, and so on. We have a few suggestions that will assist you solve issues like [Gmail storage showing full even after deleting emails](https://www.adviksoft.com/blog/why-gmail-storage-showing-full-even-after-deleting-emails/) and secure your Gmail account:

## 1. Begin with Considering the Storage Area

To effectively manage the storage capacity for your Gmail account, you must examine the allocation of your Google Drive, Gmail, and Google Photos space. The following analysis is done on Gmail's storage:

You can see your total storage and your used storage by going to the Drive storage page and choosing "View details," as shown here:

After determining which service uses the most storage, you can adjust the service's configuration. So you can use that service to free up space if you want to.

## 2. Employ the Google Storage Management programme

You can get a clear picture of what is using up space on the Storage Management page. You can review deleted email messages that you haven't yet erased, spam, attachments, and huge files using this page.

You can evaluate the items Google believes you might want to remove by clicking each one, and you can choose whether to delete them one at a time or all at once.

Let's move on to treat this more surgically since this can only be of limited assistance to you.

### 3. Send Emails to New Accounts

Making a new Gmail account and having all of your previous mails migrated there is likely one of the simplest ways to get rid of a full one. Of course, this requires you to look through past mails from an entirely different address. To fully search, contacts must be exported, but at least you may once again take advantage of a Gmail account without incurring any costs or having to inform people that you have a new address.

What you should do is:

1. Register a brand-new Google account.
2. Click the Settings wheel in the top right corner of the old account, then click the
3. Click the Settings wheel in the upper right corner of the previous account, followed by the Settings button itself.
4. If it hasn't already been done, go to the Forwarding and POP/IMAP menu from the upper menu and enable POP for all email. Then, as shown in the image below, select to remove Gmail's copy from the dropdown menu.
5. Go back to Settings on the newer account and select the Accounts and Import tab.
6. Now select "Add a POP3 mail account you own" and enter your previous email address (completely filled out), account name, and password in the appropriate sections. Leave all other choices as they are, then click the Add Account button to finish the procedure.
7. Wait for Google to move all of your emails to the new account (this could take hours, depending on how many emails are already there), then sign in with your old Gmail address.
8. To create a brand-new Inbox, go to the trash and remove all of the emails.

## 4. Utilize Google Takeout to archive Gmail emails

By storing [Gmail](https://mail.google.com/mail/) emails to the system disc in an archived file format, the Google Takeout tool can assist users in freeing up a small amount of space in their Gmail storage.

Visit the[ Google Takeout](https://takeout.google.com/settings/takeout) page, sign in with your Gmail account, click the Mail checkbox, pick Export Once as the backup frequency, and then create an export to accomplish this. Upon completion of the data, You can download the data to your PC once it is available.


5. Organize Google Photos and Drive

You still lack enough space. Gmail uses up storage space, but it's not the only one. If you upload pictures or other things at their original quality, Google Drive and Google Photos can get quite full very soon. So make sure that the upload quality is set to High Quality rather than Original in Google Photos.

The storage of your Google Drive account may also be tracked here. By selecting "Storage used" from the menu on the right, you can filter by file size. Check the "Shared with me" folder as well, as it increases your storage capacity.

Please be aware that Google Drive maintains older versions of files, and that these can take up more space. You might have earlier versions of the files occupying storage space, depending on how much you've altered the files. By selecting Manage revisions from the context menu when you right-click a file, you can access its earlier version. Clicking the X button will delete the previous version and free up some space.

6. Pay for an upgrade to More Storage

The best option is to use **Advik[ Gmail Backup Tool](https://www.adviksoft.com/gmail/backup.html)** to easily backup emails from your Gmail account and [download Gmail emails in bulk](https://www.adviksoft.com/blog/how-to-download-gmail-emails-in-bulk/) with attachments.

But, if you want to pay for more storage if none of the aforementioned measures has proven to be sufficient. Paying for more email storage now automatically upgrades your cloud account because Google has integrated their email solution with other well-known services like Google Drive and Google Photos but it will be more expensive for you.

Google now offers 15 GB of integrated storage for free, with the option to expand to 100 GB for $1.99 per month (or $19.99 per year) and up to 30 TB for $149.99 per month as part of the Google One package. Other storage capacities include 100 GB, 200 GB, 2 TB, 10 TB, and 20 TB.