How to Free Up Storage in Your Gmail Inbox by Deleting Old Emails and Attachments?

How many unnecessary email messages do you currently have in your inbox? Is it ten, 10,000, or more than this, or somewhere in between?

Regardless of what quality emails these files consist of, emails and attachments take up the space of Gmail, which is the main concern. It doesn't matter whether the files are new, old, or archived because they're consuming space.

If you're also a user of Gmail and happen to be one of those who doesn't constantly delete messages, you might be facing the issue of "Gmail running out of space."

So here we have the complete guide, which reveals strategies for deleting old emails and attachments in Gmail to reclaim the storage. Learn how to identify old emails, delete unnecessary ones, empty trash, delete large attachments, or take backups of Gmail files directly.

Before moving, a question arises here why are these storage problems and the need for deletion?

It is so because Google only offers 15 GB of free storage space. This data consists of everything present in your Gmail, Google Drive, and any picture that is saved in Google Photos.

When you exceed the limit, you won't have any option to add anything to Google Drive or even send and receive messages.

And at this moment, you are stuck because you exceeded the limit. So here this guide comes into action. You will learn the best way to manage storage in your Gmail account.

How do I free up storage space in my Gmail account?

Since all storage is shared, the first step is to examine how Google distributes storage.
For example, if you use Google Drive a lot, you might have stored large documents there that take up space. In that case, you might face issues like "Google storage is full and you are not receiving emails!"

Follow the steps on how to delete old emails and attachments in Gmail to reclaim storage space:

Identify old emails: Open the web browser and log into Gmail. After that, search a query to find the old emails you want to delete from Gmail.
For example- in the search bar, type older_than:1y.

Delete unnecessary emails: To delete, check the unnecessary boxes that you want to delete. Also, you can click the trash icon to delete the trash files as well.

Empty trash: to manage the storage in Gmail, click the "Empty Trash Now" option to delete the unnecessary trash files.

Delete large attachments: To clear the storage space in Gmail, managing email attachments should be the primary concern. If you need to download the attachment first, just download the attachment file and then remove the link to detach it from the email files. Then delete the attachment file.

Manage large files in Google Drive: visit your Google Drive and view your storage space. Just delete the unnecessary files or move them to a different storage option.

These are the basic primary steps through which you can free up space in your Gmail account. Here, we would like to introduce you to the software through which you can take a backup of Gmail emails with attachments from your personal Gmail account.

Yes, you heard right. right! Let us know about that smart utility in the below section

Advanced Gmail Email Extract Solution to Free Up Gmail Storage Space

SysTools Gmail Backup Software allows its users to save the backup emails from all Gmail folders into Outlook PST / MSG / MBOX / EML, etc. Furthermore, it does not just take backups of emails but also saves Gmail emails as PDFs with attachments inside them.

This software provides multiple email formats for backup, and it's quite faster than all other manual methods. Moreover, it overcomes all the technical limitations that you might face while taking the backup of the Gmail email files to the computer.

Let us discuss some striking features of the software, then proceed to how it works.

https://www.systoolsgroup.com/gmail-backup.html

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SysTools Software is a renowned name in the verticals of data recovery and data conversion. Gmail Backup software is another application that executes flawless storage of Gmail mail data on a flash drive, pen drive, USB drive, external hard drive, etc.

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