# What percentage of your Gmail space are you using?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-percentage-of-your-gmail-space-are-you-using/589082
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [July 15, 2011, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-percentage-of-your-gmail-space-are-you-using/589082 "2011-07-15T00:35:50Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2011, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-percentage-of-your-gmail-space-are-you-using/589082/1 "2011-07-15T00:35:50Z")
I’m using 52% of mine. What about you?
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### Author:  [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2011, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-percentage-of-your-gmail-space-are-you-using/589082/2 "2011-07-15T00:41:33Z")
34%. I uploaded 15 years of emails via my IMAP client so that they would all be on hand. 🙂
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### Author:  [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2011, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-percentage-of-your-gmail-space-are-you-using/589082/3 "2011-07-15T00:42:26Z")
0%
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### Author:  [@Cabin\_Fever\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cabin_Fever_1)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2011, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-percentage-of-your-gmail-space-are-you-using/589082/4 "2011-07-15T00:48:20Z")
8 per cent, and I keep EVERYTHING.
I also have 97 Gmail invites left…
What am I doing wrong here?
😕
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### Author:  [@Kyrie\_Eleison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyrie_Eleison)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2011, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-percentage-of-your-gmail-space-are-you-using/589082/5 "2011-07-15T00:50:17Z")
0%. All my gmail gets downloaded to a central server that I use to consolidate all of my e-mail.
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### Author:  [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2011, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-percentage-of-your-gmail-space-are-you-using/589082/6 "2011-07-15T01:02:59Z")
I’m on the my phone, and can’t be arsed to figure it out, but I guess zero. My inbox has about 10 emails. I erase almost everything, and use hotmail as my main email.
Joe
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### Author:  [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2011, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-percentage-of-your-gmail-space-are-you-using/589082/7 "2011-07-15T02:20:48Z")
1%. I have 95 invites left. I need to borrow one from **Cabin Fever**.
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### Author:  [@Shakester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shakester)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2011, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-percentage-of-your-gmail-space-are-you-using/589082/8 "2011-07-15T02:36:27Z")
[QUOTE=Google]
0% full - Using 8 MB of your 7604 MB
[/QUOTE]
I’m surprised it’s that much. I delete almost everything, there’s not much that I want or need to keep.
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### Author:  [@Arrogance\_Ex\_Machina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arrogance_Ex_Machina)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2011, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-percentage-of-your-gmail-space-are-you-using/589082/9 "2011-07-15T02:41:27Z")
9% – a friend sent me some songs via email years ago and I never bothered to remove them and they are the only emails that actually take some space. Maybe I should check them out again, I can’t even remember what sort of songs they were.
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### Author:  [@Lancia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lancia)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2011, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-percentage-of-your-gmail-space-are-you-using/589082/10 "2011-07-15T02:59:21Z")
Forgive me, Opal, for the hijack, but…
What’s a gmail invite? Since I use gmail and I don’t know, am I doing something wrong? 😕
BTW I use 0% of gmail space. Delete everything.
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### Author:  [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2011, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-percentage-of-your-gmail-space-are-you-using/589082/11 "2011-07-15T04:21:07Z")
Lower left corner of the screen, it says Invite people to Gmail and tells you how many you have left.
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### Author:  [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2011, 9:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-percentage-of-your-gmail-space-are-you-using/589082/12 "2011-07-15T09:11:56Z")
> [@OpalCat](#):
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> Lower left corner of the screen, it says Invite people to Gmail and tells you how many you have left.
Aren’t invites just a relic from the Beta days when you could only get an account with an inviation, though? These days, anyone can sign up, right?
(13% full, 1050MB, and 100 invites left, BTW)
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### Author:  [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2011, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-percentage-of-your-gmail-space-are-you-using/589082/13 "2011-07-15T13:35:56Z")
2% used, 96 invites left.
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### Author:  [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2011, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-percentage-of-your-gmail-space-are-you-using/589082/14 "2011-07-15T13:38:48Z")
> [@Cabin\_Fever](#):
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> 8 per cent, and I keep EVERYTHING.
At the risk of posting a “me too” – me too.
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### Author:  [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2011, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-percentage-of-your-gmail-space-are-you-using/589082/15 "2011-07-15T13:45:03Z")
Using 64 MB of your 7604 MB. Less than 1%.
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### Author:  [@kenner116](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenner116)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2011, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-percentage-of-your-gmail-space-are-you-using/589082/16 "2011-07-15T13:54:30Z")
7%, and I’ve had that account since 2004. It’s been my primary email for the past 5 years, but I don’t send or receive many large files.
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### Author:  [@USCDiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/USCDiver)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2011, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-percentage-of-your-gmail-space-are-you-using/589082/17 "2011-07-15T13:55:31Z")
Um, you guys know about Archiving your emails right? They are stored and searchable, but don’t take up your active space.
I have 11% full but I probably have thousands of emails with work files, pictures, videos etc archived.
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### Author:  [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2011, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-percentage-of-your-gmail-space-are-you-using/589082/18 "2011-07-15T13:59:25Z")
2%
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### Author:  [@UncleRojelio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleRojelio)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2011, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-percentage-of-your-gmail-space-are-you-using/589082/19 "2011-07-15T13:59:36Z")
[QUOTE=GMail]
0% full
Using 0 MB of your 7604 MB
[/QUOTE]
Huh, I’ve only got 50 invites. I think I used two or three a few years ago. I guess Google doesn’t want me inviting many people.
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### Author:  [@SciFiSam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SciFiSam)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2011, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-percentage-of-your-gmail-space-are-you-using/589082/20 "2011-07-15T14:03:02Z")
> [@UncleRojelio](#):
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> Huh, I’ve only got 50 invites. I think I used two or three a few years ago. I guess Google doesn’t want me inviting many people.
Same here.
20% of space used up. I’d have expected it to be more, since I use it for work, so send lots of files.
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