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Posted By: Michael Lannen

Running out of space in your Gmail account?

Gmail gives you a fairly generous 7500MB of disk space, but if you are like me and often send/receive large graphic attachments, that can get filled up quite quickly!

Head on over to the search bar on top of your Gmail account and try the following search commands.

To find large zipped attachments use this search option.
has:attachment (*.zip || *.rar || *.7z )

To find large pdf / doc / xls / ppt attachments use this search option.
has:attachment (*.pdf || *.doc || *.docx || *.xls || *.xlsx || *.ppt || *.pptx )

To find large mp3 / mov attachments use this search option.
has:attachment (*.mov || *.mp3 || *.wm || *.avi || *.wmv )

To find large psd / eps / ai attachments use this search option.
has:attachment (*.psd || *.eps || *.ai )

The results you get could be the large file attachments that are sitting in your GMail account and making it reach your quota. Evaluate if you truly need it else you can select them and delete. You may also simply want to download the attachment to your hard drive to have a local backup of it if not already.

After you delete the mail and attachment, it still remains in your Gmail Trash folder, so be sure to click your Trash and hit "Empty Trash now". Then hit "refresh" in your browser and see if your email quota usage is lowered.

Free Large File Transfer Tools

Another great way to keep your Inbox to a management size it to use and encourage others to use a free file transfer tool like www.WeTransfer.com. They allow you to send files up to 2GB. You do not need to register, you will never get spammed, there is no usage limit and it is 100% free!

If you have any questions, comments or concerns please do not hesitate to email me directly: mike@eternitymarketing.com

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