If you use a Google account, you may already know that, totally and completely free, it incorporates 15 GB of storage space , offering us the possibility of storing everything related to it. In this way, that storage capacity is shared between Google Drive, Google Docs and Gmail, among others.
But if we make intensive and very regular use of the different services offered by Google, it is possible that, when the time comes, we find ourselves with the problem that we have ended up running out of free storage space .
Once the storage space is full, we may have a lot of trouble carrying out some simple habits like sending or receiving emails through Gmail, adding files to Google Drive, or simply creating a new document. in Google Docs.
Therefore, if we do not want to get there (for example, because we still have some storage space left but we are almost reaching the top), as if we have already reached it and we need to free space from wherever, here are some steps simple that will be quite useful.
Cleaning Gmail from emails
Although Gmail is characterized by being a fairly simple, comfortable and easy-to-use email service, it tends to have a more common problem than you think: the normal thing is to accumulate and accumulate emails that we have received when, in fact, it has been a long time ago. we already need it.
This is very common to happen, especially because when accessing Gmail through the web browser, and not downloading those emails (and attachments) on our hard drive but in the cloud, we do not have the feeling that they are actually taking up space . But it is an error, since it is occupying it.
Hence, a solution is to clean the clutter of emails and Gmail attachments , since each email tends to consume space, and will consume much more when it has an attachment.
Obviously, most important emails are not the problem , but the accumulation of other unnecessary emails. In fact, massively eliminating those that we can find in the different Gmail tabs can be a great idea.
To do this, we must go to any of the tabs that do not interest us, such as Spam, Social or Promotions , click on Select all and then click the trash button .
Of course, when doing it so automatically, we may find ourselves with the problem of deleting an email that, in reality, we want to keep, so a simple solution is to identify the email IDs of those who to We often tend to receive SPAM (even if it has not been identified as such), or promotional messages.
Once this is done, we copy that email address into the search bar, choose all the emails, and proceed to delete them. Again, we repeat the process with the rest of the email addresses whose emails we want to massively delete.
Doing the same on Google Drive
In addition to Gmail, it is very possible that part of the “fault” for excess storage in Google is related to Google Drive , especially when we carry out backup copies of files, documents and Google Photos (especially in the highest quality ).
To solve this, it is possible to delete files depending on the space they consume . To identify them, we open Google Drive and click the Storage button. Now, we proceed to sort the files in descending order. Finally, we eliminate those that do not interest us.
Remember that all the files that we delete will be kept in the trash. We can leave them there for a day or two so we can retrieve them in case we repent. Or, well, go to this section and click on the Empty trash button.
