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- flyingelvis, on 10/12/2007, -3/+80Delete something?
- PatrickFisher, on 10/12/2007, -2/+78Thanks for making me feel like a loser. Two years after I opened my (ONE!) account...
You are currently using 109 MB (4%) of your 2785 MB - MusicalGenius, on 10/12/2007, -7/+78How is this possible? GB+Email....How? How can you fill this up? It's email!?!?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -14/+57Patrick...you should feel like a winner. The losers are the ones who spend their entire lives on e-mail, and who actually think they are important enough that they have to save every since piece of e-mail they have gotten overhte last 2 years.
A loser is a gy who uses Gmail for his BUSINESS contacts.
Be proud you are not like this guy.
Rockabilly...if these business e-mails are so important, they should be archived on a CD, and hterefore not needed to still be in the inbox. - bobbourland, on 10/12/2007, -7/+47Unsubscribe from all those pr0n mailing lists.
- naevity, on 10/12/2007, -0/+33Can we file this one under "No ***** Sherlock"?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+34So... an "article" that says "delete your mail to free up space" now makes it to the front page simply because it has the world Gmail in it?
- dnthomps, on 10/12/2007, -9/+40Email their support. If you are lucky they will give you more. Two of my accounts are at 4GB but I have tried with another and never got a response... Yeah.. I handle a lot of email.
- GatesofHell, on 10/12/2007, -0/+18Come on. I'm not one to comment on these lame articles too often, but how the hell does this make it to the main page?! You mean to clear up space on your email account, it is suggested to delete emails? Wow. Amazing.
- dbug, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16Who wrote this article? Captain Obvious? Lame.
- aurrea, on 10/12/2007, -2/+16I wish I knew how to do that. I get about 25 emails a day about some daughter f*cking her father, or some red head taking it from a goat.
- chaimpot0k, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13Yeah how hard is it to keep your inbox neat and tidy?
- amed, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14Here tip number #2
Don't sign up for useless crap
#3
Create a different email for your porno subscriptions - Llanowar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6"Thanks for making me feel like a loser. Two years after I opened my (ONE!) account...
You are currently using 109 MB (4%) of your 2785 MB"
I'm still only at 5mb.. and of that, 95% is spam -_- - internetworld7, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7@MrRockabilly
Have you ever heard of the "delete" button? - Cymrubeats, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7If Larry King can survive without the internets, then i can survive without saving every email i get sent by people. I don't collect and store every postal mail i get, so why do it with e-mails.
- tnoy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7It exists so you don't have to delete anything.. until you fill it up.
- ajb2015, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7I am a college student and I have my school's listserv forwarded to my gmail account (college account fills up in a day, only 25mb). I have over 11,000 emails in my box and I've only used 13%. I don't delete anything so I can search for it later if I have to. This is after two years of having the account. I don't understand how someone could fill the account unless they are spammed to hell or use Gdrive.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Are you guys using Gmail just for handling mail or you use it like a storage space too?
- Rorrim, on 10/12/2007, -5/+10Gmail exists so you don't have to do that. (Why do you think we have the function of searching through our mail?)
- dodoporridge, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5"How is this possible? GB+Email....How? How can you fill this up? It's email!?!?"
Attachments.
I seem to hover at right about 29%, no matter how much they raise the alotted memory. - nxusername, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7My ultimate goal is 0 email. I have 8 right now that I need to save.
- elnerdo, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7I never delete with gmail. However, I DO archive everything so that my inbox is nearly empty. On more than one occasion searching through my many emails has proved to be very helpful.
- xxrazor, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4how hard is it to hit the little delete button at the top of gmail?
- pozzoe, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7I think the point of having 2Gb is not having to delete your emails. Having 0 mails is not an achievement.
The problem here is that there are things you should delete:
spam: filtered spam deletes after 1month
files: the people who think gmail is great to store mp3 because of the 2Gb are the same that get their inbox full, gmail is not a webdisk, it is ok to archive important attachment, but don't store your photo collection!
mails from mailing lists, maybe: most of them have archives that you can search if you ever need to read something again.
I leave you with some numbers:
2Gb ->2147483648bytes
Gmail's exists to the public for 2.5 years now, that's about 900 days
that gives us an input of 2386092 bytes/day. Let's assume half of that goes to headers and there are no attachments. That's about 1193046 letters/day.
Of course, you could easily have the same result with 2mb of attachments per day. But then again... gmail is not a webdisk. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Wow, I haven't even filled up 1%!
- jcaino, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5you would be surprised how many mailboxes i see at work that are ~1GB or more...
- intekra, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@oliviacond
There is no such thing as unlimited. There is a limit somewhere. - lordcanyon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1i dont even see how you could use up 5mb of space that maybe less than 1% of most places today
its been years since i opened mine up and still today i think that 50mb of email space is just plain crazy
but 3-4gb how the hell in your entire life could you ever ever use that up unless you save every single thing you get
again wow 50mb wait you mean its 3gb now? what has text somehow inflated? - filefly, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@psilanthropist
When you report something as spam that *isn't* spam, you're training gmail's filters to remove that item for everyone, not just for your own account. You are, in essence, defeating the purpose of the spam filter... - randall814, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I don't delete any of my mail unless of course it is spam or something I am really annoyed by. I have mp3's peppered throughout, and tons of pictures and documents. I have 2,400 emails since July '04, and I have only used 447 MB (16%) of my 2785 MB.
I am puzzled by how this dude can fill his capacity. - pozzoe, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Did I say something wrong that I'm being dugged down?
- NinjaSkitch, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2One good way to fill up your GMail space:
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Internet/E-mail/Mail-Utilities/GMail-Drive-shell-extension.shtml
;-D - lazlonger, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2ya done it.
- jedikv, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4wow, i only have 2 emails saved. (I clear my inbox on a regular basis)
- QuidnuncQuixot, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3But pozzoe, gmail IS a webdisk: http://gdisk.sourceforge.net/ for os x and http://www.viksoe.dk/code/gmail.htm for windows.
- Vector713, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1yeah, i'm at 130 megs after about a year or two of having this account. It's nice to know i won't be running out for a while :)
- lazlonger, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1ugggh .... come on. pop mail sucks, it's WHY we have web mail. how many times does one have to loose all one's messages due to a flaked out Netscape installation, messed up file storage methods, secret mail folders, crashed computer, burned up hard drive, need I go on?
I do wish gmail had a button for "make hard copy backup of your mail" and you could rip off a quick dvd for peace of mind and to "pull" all your conversations off the web for whatever reason. - kilps, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1All I have done is get into the habit of deleting those daily newsletters after I have read them ... I don't think I'll need them again
- lazlonger, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I don't know why you're getting dugg down. This is what I was going to say. You just create a new account and have all the email going into the previous account forwarded into the new one. This is how I 'gently' move from one email address to the next. Moving target, much more fun and annoys spammers etc. I'm diggin you up cause you're the smart one.
EDIT Did not digg article because, as carapi says below, it's just plain stoopid. - dalooo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I think it's kinda scary to have all that information on your gmail account. I think one day they'll aggregate all the information stored on your email, searches etc.. segment the market and create profiles of who we each are, and sell things to us we don't want, but knowing our habits and who we are, we'll still buy.
http://www.google-watch.org/bigbro.html
Ok, this is off topic, just read the above article, maybe it's paranoia - kernokerno, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1You are currently using 1734 MB (62%) of your 2785 MB.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1You are currently using 245 MB (9%) of your 2785 MB.
over 2 years after i had mine i got mine literally a month after - magnoliasouth, on 01/28/2009, -0/+1I'm using 15%. I think over the past year, I've gone from 12% to 15%, which means I've got plenty of time before I have to worry. Most of my email are stupid newsletters that are sent to me, even though I UNchecked the box saying I wanted to subscribe. Why do companies do that and how do they get away with it?
- gd007, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1that's lot of email!
- LKBM, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"Did I say something wrong that I'm being dugged down?"
Yes, two things:
A lowercase 'b' means 'bit', not byte.
G is Giga=10^9. Gi is Gibi=2^30.
1Gb = 125 000 000 bytes
1GB = 1 000 000 000 bytes
1Gib = 134 217 728 bytes
1GiB = 1 073 741 824 bytes
But I'm certainly not digging you down for it. These are niggling little issues, and even GMail help gets it wrong. The major points of your post were spot on. - BobMysterioso, on 10/12/2007, -6/+6I somewhat agree, but only somewhat - so don't click the little red hand yet.
Lifehacker is good, when its good. And unlike sex and pizza, sometimes it just isn't good. Still, usually I like the lifehacker posts. And sometimes I even find something genuinely useful, but not that often. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1You can always try this--> http:www.dropboks.com
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2get google desktop, it'll cache them all for reading offline, then delete your inbox
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1woops. http://www.dropboks.com
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