How To Sort Gmail By File Size

Most people have a Gmail account these days, and at to the lowest degree some of you might accept realised - with an unpleasant shock - that the space in your inbox is getting filled up. Gmail has a pretty huge 15GB limit, but over the years, mail service tends to build up, and many of u.s. are probably reaching those limits at present.

Luckily cleaning up your Gmail inbox isn't a challenge, cheers to some Gmail'south own tools and some third party apps as well. Nosotros've found a few reliable means to apace make clean your Gmail inbox. Get-go at present and nosotros promise it won't take more than half an hour.

Gmail search filters
Gmail doesn't accept the choice to sort files - you tin can't go the inbox to display mails alphabetically, or according to the engagement received, or size. This might sound like a problem, but equally is to be expected from a Google visitor, Gmail has a superb search function, which tin be used to solve the trouble hands. Follow these steps to articulate up the emails y'all don't need:

i. Sign in to Gmail > go to the big search bar at the top.

2. Starting time, let'southward clear out the emails taking upwardly the about space. Blazon Larger:10M in the search bar > hit enter or click the magnifying glass icon.

three. This will detect emails taking up more than 10MB. Now select the mails you don't want > delete (trash can icon).

four. You lot tin experiment with different file sizes, depending on how much you need to delete.

5. The obvious next step is to clear out emails from the long ago. You lot tin can utilise Before:YYYY/MM/DD to specify a cutoff date, or older_than:years if you want to search for mails that are one, ii or more than years one-time. For case, if you want mails that are older than one year, y'all can type older_than:1y > press enter to meet the list, and then select mails > delete to make space.

6. Y'all tin use combinations of commands, so if, for case, you lot want to delete old mails with attachments that are more than 1MB in size, then type the following into search: has:attachment larger:1M older_than:1y > printing enter, then see the list, and select items > delete mails.

7. In case you're starting to worry well-nigh remembering all these operators, and then y'all volition be happy to know that Google has you covered. Click on the downward pointing pointer at the right corner of the search bar, and you lot volition see the advanced search, which lets you lot utilize all these filters in a simple menu.

Detect Big Post
Find Big Mail was the only way to - well - observe big emails in Gmail, until Gmail added the filters we mentioned already. The app is nonetheless pretty useful because information technology automates the process of finding mails that should be deleted and also creates labels so y'all tin can find them again later without any difficulty.

Follow these steps to make clean up that messy inbox:

i. Head to the Observe Big Post website > enter your Gmail address in the big class > click Find Big Mail.

2. At present Google will ask you to authorise this service. Enter your password (if you oasis't logged in already) > click Allow access.

3. The service will now begin scanning your inbox. It claims that it simply sees the size of your emails and non the content. Once scanning is complete, you will get an email alert. Ignore the email.

4. On the left side, under the links for inbox, sent mail, etc., you volition see new labels. If you don't come across this, expand the labels carte. You will see four labels: FindBigMail - Height, FindBigMail > 1MB, FindBigMail > 5MB, FindBigMail > 10MB. Click any of these > select the emails you lot don't need > delete.

5. The advantage of this method is that you don't need to echo the search afterwards to find the worst offenders, if yous're running out of infinite again.

Mailstrom
If you're willing to utilize a paid service, so nosotros really liked Mailstrom. The app works great and you can delete up to 660 emails for free, to get an thought of how it works. Unfortunately, using it across this limit involves a payment of around Rs. 300 per month.

With that said, Mailstrom's feature set is fairly advanced. Information technology sorts emails by sender, let's you unsubscribe from newsletters chop-chop and bundles related emails so that you can delete several at once. Follow these steps:

1. Open up the Mailstrom website > enter your Gmail address in the form > click Outset Free Trial > click Authorize With Google > enter email and password > Sign in.

2. Now y'all will see your inbox through Mailstrom. Information technology will take some time to sort all your emails. Once washed, you will see all emails grouped by sender. We constitute surprisingly large numbers of emails from people we hadn't spoken to in years. Nosotros started by deleting these.

3. Yous can apace clear emails using the left sidebar, which lets you view emails by size, time, emails from social networks and has a handy Unsubscribe link to help clear the ataxia.

We recommend Mailstrom for those who are facing a serious electronic mail overload and take abandoned all hope of e'er cleaning upward their inboxes. We managed to articulate over 200 emails within a minute using Mailstrom. For the average user though, the complimentary methods we already described are probably the better choice.

These are our favourite methods for cleaning the Gmail inbox. What are yours? Tell u.s. via the comments.