# Is anyone actually running out of gmail space? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 19, 2010, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-actually-running-out-of-gmail-space/533011 "2010-03-19T14:34:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Gaudere](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e495f1/32.png) [@Gaudere](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gaudere)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2010, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-actually-running-out-of-gmail-space/533011/21 "2010-03-19T21:33:55Z")
> [@mr. Excellent](#): > > how long have you had the account? 6/14/04 ---
**Author:** ![fubbleskag](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@fubbleskag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fubbleskag)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2010, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-actually-running-out-of-gmail-space/533011/22 "2010-03-19T21:50:13Z")
> [@Max\_Torque](#): > > My dad. He’s only had his address for about 2 1/2 years (since October 2007), but he recently filled up all his space. He and his friends pass around those emails with big attachments, like “look at this slideshow of the flowers of Japan!” and whatnot. For some reason, his email program wasn’t deleting them properly, and his mailbox filled up. > > We discovered it about a month ago, when his friends and my brother complained that new emails they sent to him were bouncing back. “Could my inbox be full?” he asked me. Surely not, I thought, but when I logged into the web interface, sure enough: 7.9 GB used. This would have made an epic screenshot. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![moonstarssun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b9bd4f/32.png) [@moonstarssun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moonstarssun)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2010, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-actually-running-out-of-gmail-space/533011/23 "2010-03-20T01:47:46Z")
I’ve had my account since 2006, and I was up to about 76%–I send a lot of fairly large files to coworkers and printers and such. But I went through and started cleaning stuff out a while ago, which got me down to 6%. ---
**Author:** ![Trepa\_Mayfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/edb3f5/32.png) [@Trepa\_Mayfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trepa_Mayfield)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2010, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-actually-running-out-of-gmail-space/533011/24 "2010-03-20T03:23:08Z")
68 MBs (0%)…and I’ve been using it for 4 years! ---
**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2010, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-actually-running-out-of-gmail-space/533011/25 "2010-03-20T03:31:18Z")
What I want to know is why does it keep increasing? Like, every half-second on the Gmail login page the ticker for total storage space increases 0.000004-0.000005 MB. That’s ~30 KB of storage an hour being added. It blows my mind. ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2010, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-actually-running-out-of-gmail-space/533011/26 "2010-03-20T04:41:55Z")
I’m at 18%. ---
**Author:** ![Onomatopoeia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/onomatopoeia/32/4145_2.png) [@Onomatopoeia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Onomatopoeia)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2010, 9:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-actually-running-out-of-gmail-space/533011/27 "2010-03-20T09:50:16Z")
> [@Rigamarole](#): > > What I want to know is why does it keep increasing? Like, every half-second on the Gmail login page the ticker for total storage space increases 0.000004-0.000005 MB. That’s ~30 KB of storage an hour being added. It blows my mind. Obviously Google is tapping into space in an alternate universe. Of course it’s only a matter of time before a Hard One figures this out. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2010, 10:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-actually-running-out-of-gmail-space/533011/28 "2010-03-20T10:12:02Z")
I bought 20 extra gig from Google via [Picasaweb](http://picasa.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=39567), which shares space with my Gmail account - my photos and videos expand into Gmail storage, or email can expand into the photo storage. It costs $5 a year. Clever Google. ---
**Author:** ![NoiseBomb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/49beb7/32.png) [@NoiseBomb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NoiseBomb)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2010, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-actually-running-out-of-gmail-space/533011/29 "2010-03-22T01:55:01Z")
10%, and I get a fair number of not-excessively large attachments too. I still save them to the hard drive and then delete the email the vast majority of the time. Old habits die hard, I suppose. ---
**Author:** ![Rick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2010, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-actually-running-out-of-gmail-space/533011/30 "2010-03-22T03:43:52Z")
70% here ---
**Author:** ![raindog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@raindog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raindog)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2010, 11:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-actually-running-out-of-gmail-space/533011/31 "2010-03-22T11:14:32Z")
11% ---
**Author:** ![chromaticity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/cc9497/32.png) [@chromaticity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chromaticity)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2010, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-actually-running-out-of-gmail-space/533011/32 "2010-03-22T14:51:42Z")
> [@jjimm](#): > > I bought 20 extra gig from Google via [Picasaweb](http://picasa.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=39567), which shares space with my Gmail account - my photos and videos expand into Gmail storage, or email can expand into the photo storage. It costs $5 a year. Clever Google. Yup, me too. It does seem like a pretty good deal actually. I wanted to consolidate my photos (which I haven’t started doing yet!) and I sorta like picasaweb. so now, I’m at: 1.1 GB (3%) of 27.3 GB ---
**Author:** ![Rushgeekgirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rushgeekgirl/32/3715_2.png) [@Rushgeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rushgeekgirl)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2010, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-actually-running-out-of-gmail-space/533011/33 "2010-03-22T17:24:19Z")
3% and I’ve had my account for a couple years…maybe several? Time flies. But the idea of mailing myself files to back up my photos does sound interesting. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-actually-running-out-of-gmail-space/533011.md?page=1)