I have been using Gmail for my primary email communication for several years. It is great, fast, and also convenient. But recently I had an issue — I almost ran out of space. At the time of writing, Gmail only gives 15 GB of email storage, and I was using 95% of it. The reason it filled up is that I had emailed some clients with large attachments.
So I found a way to search those emails and deleted them all, and I could save a lot of space. Here is how I did it:
1. I searched all the old emails with attachments larger than 5 MB, using the syntax: has:attachment size:5000000
2. I went to the oldest emails found (I still had emails from 2007!).
3. I deleted every email that I no longer needed.
Now my Gmail inbox is safe at 64% of 15 GB.
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