# What percentage of your Gmail space are you using? **URL:** \ **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\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2011, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-percentage-of-your-gmail-space-are-you-using/589082/21 "2011-07-15T14:06:53Z")
It’s funny but my gmail has been at about 65% for several YEARS. And I know stuff is accumulating. 4992MB of 7604MB. ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2011, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-percentage-of-your-gmail-space-are-you-using/589082/22 "2011-07-15T15:32:18Z")
> [@USCDiver](#): > > 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. I’m pretty sure you’re wrong about that. Archived emails still count towards your [storage limit](http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=6558). **Jonathan Chance** - they keep adding storage, so I guess it’s just keeping pace with your new mail. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2011, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-percentage-of-your-gmail-space-are-you-using/589082/23 "2011-07-15T15:35:29Z")
16% full / Using 1256 MB of your 7604 MB I keep most stuff. ---
**Author:** ![gurujulp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ba9def/32.png) [@gurujulp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gurujulp)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2011, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-percentage-of-your-gmail-space-are-you-using/589082/24 "2011-07-15T15:42:01Z")
[QUOTE=GMAIL] 25% full Using 1932 MB of your 7604 MB [/QUOTE] ## (um, and what is the deal with this error message from the SDMB- on preview: "Message from webpage ## The message you have entered is too short. Please lengthen your message to at least 2 characters. OK ---------------------------) ---
**Author:** ![Laalune](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/977dab/32.png) [@Laalune](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laalune)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2011, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-percentage-of-your-gmail-space-are-you-using/589082/25 "2011-07-15T15:43:07Z")
41% of 7604 MB. ---
**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2011, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-percentage-of-your-gmail-space-are-you-using/589082/26 "2011-07-15T15:46:18Z")
13% full Using 1029 MB of your 7604 MB There’s really no reason to delete e-mails in this day and age; they take up so little space. Never know when it might be handy to search for something from an old correspondence. The only things I delete are spammy stuff that gets by the filter and transaction notification-type mails. ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2011, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-percentage-of-your-gmail-space-are-you-using/589082/27 "2011-07-15T15:50:16Z")
10%, and now I don’t feel like such a packrat about having 770 MB of stuff (I’ve also backed up many MP3’s that I can’t replace, many photos, and important documents). ---
**Author:** ![USCDiver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/uscdiver/32/354_2.png) [@USCDiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/USCDiver)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2011, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-percentage-of-your-gmail-space-are-you-using/589082/28 "2011-07-15T15:56:35Z")
> [@Colophon](#): > > I’m pretty sure you’re wrong about that. Archived emails still count towards your [storage limit](http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=6558). Hmph, looks like you’re right. I could have sworn when I first started using Gmail, it said the Archived messages didn’t count. Well I’ve used less than I though over the years. Only 800MB or so. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2011, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-percentage-of-your-gmail-space-are-you-using/589082/29 "2011-07-15T16:07:35Z")
> [@Colophon](#): > > 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? AFAIK you are correct. I’m not sure why it still has invites, or if it does, why there is a limit. ---
**Author:** ![GusNSpot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gusnspot/32/436_2.png) [@GusNSpot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GusNSpot)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2011, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-percentage-of-your-gmail-space-are-you-using/589082/30 "2011-07-15T17:45:13Z")
10% ---
**Author:** ![Cinnamon\_Imp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@Cinnamon\_Imp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cinnamon_Imp)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2011, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-percentage-of-your-gmail-space-are-you-using/589082/31 "2011-07-15T18:32:28Z")
7% and 50 invites left! I keep real mail, but delete Facebook notifications, non-spam marketing emails, etc… ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2011, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-percentage-of-your-gmail-space-are-you-using/589082/32 "2011-07-16T03:29:43Z")
7% I delete a lot of stuff ---
**Author:** ![Bamboo\_Boy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/839c29/32.png) [@Bamboo\_Boy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bamboo_Boy)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2011, 10:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-percentage-of-your-gmail-space-are-you-using/589082/33 "2011-07-16T10:13:00Z")
47%! Do I win something? Wiffle ball bat? ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2011, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-percentage-of-your-gmail-space-are-you-using/589082/34 "2011-07-16T14:45:26Z")
Still 1%. It went up to 2% for a little while, but the storage has increased since then. Text files just don’t take up much space. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2011, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-percentage-of-your-gmail-space-are-you-using/589082/35 "2011-07-16T15:24:00Z")
16% ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2011, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-percentage-of-your-gmail-space-are-you-using/589082/36 "2011-07-17T04:26:54Z")
9% And I _still_ think I should remove all of the emails I’m not ever going to read. ---
**Author:** ![ryan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a8b319/32.png) [@ryan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ryan)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2011, 9:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-percentage-of-your-gmail-space-are-you-using/589082/37 "2011-07-17T09:18:03Z")
11% ---
**Author:** ![Salem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8c91f0/32.png) [@Salem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Salem)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2011, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-percentage-of-your-gmail-space-are-you-using/589082/38 "2011-07-20T23:54:01Z")
97% and have to clean out stuff every week… I get and send tons of photos, pdfs, graphics files, etc and as much as I try to keep up with cleaning it out, a lot of it ends up being needed and it’s the best way to have a searchable database. Gotta go clean some more out. ---
**Author:** ![ClaytonThroop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e99b99/32.png) [@ClaytonThroop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ClaytonThroop)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2011, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-percentage-of-your-gmail-space-are-you-using/589082/39 "2011-07-21T00:29:12Z")
> [@Salem](#): > > 97% and have to clean out stuff every week… I get and send tons of photos, pdfs, graphics files, etc and as much as I try to keep up with cleaning it out, a lot of it ends up being needed and it’s the best way to have a searchable database. Gotta go clean some more out. You can pay a small amount to increase storage - $5 per year for an additional 20 GB. [https://www.google.com/accounts/PurchaseStorage](https://www.google.com/accounts/PurchaseStorage) It increases your limit for all of your google stuff, such as Picasa web albums. ---
**Author:** ![Salem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8c91f0/32.png) [@Salem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Salem)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2011, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-percentage-of-your-gmail-space-are-you-using/589082/40 "2011-07-21T02:33:46Z")
> [@ClaytonThroop](#): > > You can pay a small amount to increase storage - $5 per year for an additional 20 GB. > > [https://www.google.com/accounts/PurchaseStorage](https://www.google.com/accounts/PurchaseStorage) > > It increases your limit for all of your google stuff, such as Picasa web albums. Yes, thanks. Unfortunately, because of my job, it will just continue to fill up. I just have to be vigilant in deleting. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-percentage-of-your-gmail-space-are-you-using/589082.md?page=1)