

SaneBox teaches you how to stay on top of your email. Google will allow you unlimited Photos but you have to switch to High Quality instead. Google Photos: Photos and videos stored using the Original size count against your quota. Getting in the habit of triaging your emails (delete, archive, label) including clearing out Spam / Trash on a regular basis will help here. Gmail: Messages and attachments, including items in your Spam and Trash folders count. Or follow these directions for cleaning up your Drive

We’d recommend clearing out your Trash to increase your storage space. Google Drive: Files in your My Drive (including items in your trash) count against your storage limit. Option 3: Sign up for SaneBox and have us filter your email Clearing up Space. If you have a Google Apps Account (Paid), you’ll get 30 GB of storage space by default. It’s important to note that this limit does not affect your Google Docs. If you have a free Google account, you will receive 15GB that is shared across all of your Google services such as Drive, Gmail, and Photos. Or click on “Manage” from within your Gmail account, by scrolling to the bottom of your Inbox in your web-mail view. How do I see how much storage that I have left? Or your Google Photos are still set to “original” size.

The most likely culpritsĮither the huge attachments in your Gmail, Running out of storage space in Gmail can not only prevent you from uploading files in Google Drive, but it can also prevent you from sending and receiving emails. Quota is the nerdy way to say you are using too much space in your account. Their new quota calculation now includes all items in your Google Drive, Gmail, and Google Photos (with a few exceptions). It’s likely this is because Google quietly changed how they calculate your quota on December 16, 2018. Gmail and Google Apps: The email account that you tried to reach is over quotaĪre your friends sending you emails and getting a bounce message declaring that “The email account that you tried to reach is “over quota”?
