![]() ![]() ![]() It’s like a bank charging me for having too much money in my checking account. Not only that, but theoretically, the more data Google has, the more money it’s making from me. It feels ironic for Google to suddenly try to charge me to store my data when it has been making money on it for so long. My Gmail has crashed every time I’ve tried to delete a significant number of emails - once on just 754 emails, from the Trash folder, which self-deletes after 30 days by default (and probably shouldn’t count against storage limits, but does). Google is likely hoping I won’t bother trying to figure any of this out and will just pay the relatively small amount of money to make this problem go away, and I admit I’m very close to doing so because it’s an extremely annoying problem that they have made just barely difficult enough to solve with anything other than my own money. I could figure out what items Google suddenly decided were so big and try to manage it down, or I could buy more storage, for a minimum of $2 per month.įrom casting around desperately on Gmail support pages, as best I can tell, I came up against this storage limit because of large-attachment emails, but there are only 50 emails in my inbox with attachments bigger than 10MB, and only 30 more with attachments bigger than 5MB (you can check this for yourself by putting “has:attachment larger:10M” in the Gmail search field). ![]() If I hit the limit, Google warned, I’d stop receiving email altogether. I was using 16.99GB of data, with 15GB in Gmail alone, and it was all suddenly together in one 17GB-sized place. Then, sometime in the last couple of years, Google started lumping all my “data” - from Gmail, Photos, and Drive - into a single bucket that turned out to be only 0.01GB bigger than all of my data combined. Gmail has always had storage limits, but they were so large relative to the size of an email, or even tens of thousands of emails, no one ever needed to pay attention to it. Around the holidays, I started getting an alert on my Gmail that I was running up against a storage limit. ![]()
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