Thanks Andy - and others who have replied - I hadn't thought of emptying Trash, and it's a good suggestion. I had 700 emails in there this morning. Every once in a while, I do want to go back to an email which is in Trash, but of course there's no reason to keep 700 bits of communication in there.
By the way, I keep enough Archived emails, and enough photos, that I went ahead and bought more storage. I'll also look into backing up to Google Photos, if I can do that without Google compressing them ( sometimes I want to print, or display at a large screen size). Bill On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 4:25 PM Richi Jennings <ric...@gmail.com> wrote: > Your storage quota is usually 15 GB. It's shared between Gmail and Drive > (including Photos if you upload them with Drive in full fidelity). > > One thing that often trips people up is that they delete loads of Gmail > messages, but it doesn't fix the problem, because the messages are still in > the Trash, which is still counted. You need to go into Trash and click > *Empty*.See this help page for more info: > https://support.google.com/drive/answer/6374270 > > > richi <https://www.richi.uk/>. > > On Thursday, February 21, 2019 at 3:15:42 PM UTC, billhansen wrote: >> >> For the past week, I've been getting a message that "You are out of >> storage space and will soon be unable to send or receive emails unless you >> free up space or purchase additional storage." I'm not sure what this >> means. There has never been much in my Google Drive. I cleaned out all but >> a few items when I first got the message, but the message continues to be >> posted daily. Is there no alternative except to purchase additional space >> on Drive (supposedly there was 3 TB available, and I have only a few GB at >> most in Drive). Could this be a spam or phishing message unrelated to >> Google? >> >> I'm anxious about this, because I do have about 1 TB of photos and videos >> stored on my computer - but those should be completely separate from Google >> or Gmail. >> >> Bill Hansen >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Gmail-Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to gmail-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to gmail-users@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/gmail-users. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Gmail-Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to gmail-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to gmail-users@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/gmail-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
