Ran out of free space in GMail? Get your space back in 8 steps!

The reason why this often happens is because Google offers 15GB (at this time) of space for free and spread it across multiple services (GMail, Photos, Drive, etc.) If you find that your GMail account is over 5GB this is almost 100% due to attachments to emails you have sent and received (photos, videos, music, etc.) Here’s how to reclaim that space in 8 steps!

Note that this will delete every email you have with an attachment. If any of these are important, make sure you back them up.

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