Gmail Is Full, What to Do?
Even though Gmail gives you tons of space that keeps growing, after years of use — mostly thanks to my students sending papers — my Gmail finally maxed out.
I thought this would be simple: sort by size, delete the big ones. Or search for attachments over a certain size and delete those. Turns out Gmail doesn’t support this basic feature. Probably by design — they want you to max out and buy more storage. I checked the pricing: 20 GB for $5 a year, which seems reasonable. Less than 3 RMB a month. Cheap. About the cost of 0.4 liters of gas, no tricks. I was about to buy, but then I found out you need Google Checkout for that, which isn’t available in China — same situation as the Android Market. I didn’t want to pretend to be from Hong Kong, so forget it.
After searching around, I found a great tool called Find Big Mail. It scans your Gmail inbox for free and labels large attachments with tags like >200KB, >2MB. Makes cleanup much easier. Here’s the link for anyone else whose mailbox is bursting:
I cleaned up and freed 1.5 GB. That should hold me for a while.