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Increase Your Gmail Storage

January 13, 2011 by Kris McDonald 4 Comments

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I recently wrote a post about how I was cleaning up my Gmail because I was so close to quota. I got a warning that I was 98%. That is a LOT of mail!! That means I was using almost every bit of my 7+ GB that they allow. It turned out that problem was due to a Yahoo Group mailing list that I belonged to. It was filtering into a “folder” and since I had not looked at it in so long, the link to the folder was hiding in my default Gmail view. I had to click on the little “13 more” link  under my Folder list to find it. The list is for sharing clipart and tubes, so each and every message had at least 1 attachment. I cleared that out and gained back a LOT of storage.

But, what if you don’t want to delete anything? What are your options? There are a few things that you can do. But, the easiest one is to increase your Gmail storage. I learned yesterday that I could upgrade very, very reasonably! I paid $5 for one year and added 20gb of storage to my account. The storage can be used across all of your Google services, not just Gmail. This means that you can utilize it in Gmail, Google Docs, & Picasa.

To add more storage to your account, visit the Purchase Additional Storage page.

Your options are:

Once you decide and purchase, the extra storage is active in your account within 24 hours.

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Kris McDonald is Chicago mom to 2 sets of twins, wife, photography nut, gadget addict, travel addict, and tech blogger who has worked in IT for over 20 years. She figured out a while ago that she was destined to be really busy (hence the 2 sets of twins), and she has found peace with that. Read More…

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  1. Peter Bowers

    May 30, 2011 at 10:58 am

    You might find this helpful as well:

    http://www.findbigmail.com

    Personally, though, after going through and deleting a bunch of emails I realized — what’s the point of trying to keep up with this when we’re talking about $5 for a whole year?!?  So I’ve up’d by 20gb and don’t have to think about that for a while now!

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  2. Super Amazing Savings

    January 13, 2011 at 2:19 pm

    Thanks for the useful information. I had to delete a bunch of old emails and forward some other ones I wanted to save to a different email account.

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