
Visit /storage, 1 and you’ll see something like this: My Google storage usage. The first thing I would do is look to see whether it’s really your email taking up all that space, or whether some or most of the space is being used by Drive and Photos. Specifically, all of these share the same 15GB of storage:

The single most important thing to realize is that the 15GB of space you get in a free Gmail account applies to your entire Google account. The most complete solution is to run a desktop email program and move email to your PC to free up space online, with the added benefit of backing up your email. Of course you can purchase more storage, but it’s also worth reviewing how much of your email you really need to keep. The views and opinions expressed in this column are the author’s and do not necessarily reflect those of USA TODAY.Both Google Drive and Google Photos count against your Gmail storage quota cleaning them can be a good place to start.

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You can open up even more space by permanently deleting emails sitting in your spam folder.
