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If you're running out of storage on Gmail, what's the best way save space?

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Alex K. Chen, InquilineKea/Simfish

4 votes by Christopher VanLang, Anon User, Anon User, and Xavier Ramirez

Create a second Gmail address, and then set up a filter to autoforward + auto-delete messages from particular places (so that they're autoforwarded to your Gmail address).

I got my inbox up to 80% full, but now it has been stable for months. What I did was set up the above-mentioned filter for all messages that come from Quora+mailing lists+other types of bulk mail.

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Andy Hairgrove, Gmail user since 2004.

5 votes by Brian Tse, Matt Senft, Mike Mee, (more)

Finding and deleting unnecessary big attachments is the key. Howeve...

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Anon User

2 votes by Alexis Madrigal and Anon User

Agree with Steve on finding messages with attachments. But if this ...

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4 votes by Anon User, Alexis Madrigal, Anon User, and Jason Toff

Find messages with attachments (especially older ones) and move the...

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Cameron Crest, CIO, Business IT Consultant, Owner Cr... (more)

1 vote by Christopher VanLang

Eliminate attachments.

Store your company information assets in th...

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Daragh Mc Grath, Senior Solutions Engineer with worlds... (more)

You can run some searches to find attachments etc as Steve mentione...

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