Gmail Storage Full? The Simple and Easy Way to Empty Your Inbox Automatically

Your inbox is in G mail Do you have thousands of unread emails? Have you used up the 15GB of free storage that comes with your account?

You may want to clean up your Gmail inbox, but the thought of wading through countless old messages can seem daunting. Fortunately, there’s an easy way to free up storage space on your account. Googlewhile keeping all your old emails.

Create a second Gmail account

As analyzed by Jason Chun At CNET, all you have to do is create one. Second Gmail Account To save all your current messages.

There is no limit to the number of free Google accounts you can have, which means you can set up an account as Private archive account Then move all your old emails to it.

Moving your messages to Gmail is also a great strategy if you have one. Academic or business Gmail account Which you won’t be able to access permanently. Most universities and companies will deactivate your account when you’re no longer a student or employee, so if you want to see your old messages and files, you should move them to a personal account before you lose access to them.

Moving your Gmail messages to a new account doesn’t take long, but it depends on how many messages you have.

How much data can you store in Gmail?

15GB of free storage may seem like a lot when you set up a Gmail account, but it fills up quickly. For starters, that 15GB isn’t just for email: it also includes the files you save to it. Google Drive And for Google Images.

If you often send or receive messages that contain large files like videos, or if you upload a lot of photos and videos to Google Photos, it won’t be long before you see the message. “Account storage space is full”This means that you will no longer be able to send or receive email on this account, so you will need to do something as soon as possible.

The quickest solution is to upgrade to an account. Google OneBut even if you choose the cheapest plan — 100GB for $20 per year — you’ll still end up paying to store old emails that you may no longer need.

If you don’t want to buy more storage, you can always delete old emails. You can reclaim a lot of storage space by putting large files on Trash canGmail makes it easy for you to select and delete files by size. However, this option can seem tedious. You probably don’t want to spend hours sifting through mail dating back a decade or more, deciding which memories to keep and which to throw away forever.

There’s always the option of downloading large files to your desktop before deleting them from your Google account, but at some point you’ll likely run into the same issue with your local files and need to manage storage on your device. This brings us to our “nuclear option”: moving all of your emails to a new Gmail account.

How to Move Gmail Messages to a New Email Account

Before starting the Gmail transfer process, we recommend creating a Backups From your emails. You can do this by downloading your emails either to your computer or to an external hard drive. You can delete the backup after you’ve finished transferring your emails to your new account if you want, but it’s always a good idea to have an extra copy stored locally.

To back up your Gmail messages, go to Google Take Out.

Here are the steps to follow:

1. Log in to your original Gmail account.

• Log in to your original Gmail account, click the gear icon at the top left and select “Show all settings”.
• Select the tab POP/IMAP redirection Then select “Enable POP for all messages” (POP stands for Post Office Protocol).
• You’ll have several options under “When messages are accessed using POP.” To automatically delete emails from your original account after the transfer, select Delete Gmail copy.
• Select “Save Changes”.

2. Create and set up a new account

• If you haven’t already, create a brand new Gmail account with no inbox — we’ll call it Deposit account.
• Log in to your new Archive account, click the gear icon at the top and select “Show all settings.”
• Select the tab Accounts and Introduction At the top, select Add a mail account next to Check mail from other accounts.
• In the pop-up window, enter your original Gmail account name and select Next.
• Select “Import email from my other account (POP3)” and select “Next” again. Enter the password for your original Gmail account. You may also be asked to create a password for the Google app.
• Select 995 under Port. Check the following three boxes: “Always use a secure connection (SSL) when retrieving mail.”“Add tags to incoming messages”, “Archive incoming messages (ignore inbox)”.
• Select Add Account.

3. Create a Google App Password

• You may need to create a Google App password to transfer Gmail messages. We tried this process to transfer Gmail messages twice and both times the standard password for Gmail accounts did not work.
• Visit https://myaccount.google.com/apppasswords to create an app password. Create a name for the password — we used Bulk Email Transfer — and press the “Generate” button.
• A pop-up window will appear with your new 16-digit password. Important: Google will only show your app password once. After you create it, be sure to register it another way.

4. Use the application password

• Once you’ve created an app password, go back to step 2 of the instructions above and use your new app password instead of your regular password.
• Google’s Help Center states that “app passwords are not recommended and are unnecessary in most cases.” So, once you’ve finished moving your messages to Gmail, we recommend deleting the app password.

What happens after I sync my Gmail accounts?

Once you’ve successfully linked your new Gmail archive account to your original account, your emails should start transferring automatically. The process may take several hours or days, depending on how many emails you have.

Important: After you move your Gmail messages to your archived account, your original Gmail account will put all of these messages in the folder. Garbage containerwhich you will have to empty manually. It took about an hour to clear those 75,000 messages from the trash.