There is the risk that Google misclassifies email - sometimes it will accidentally label an important message as spam, for example.
When I just did it, I got rid of thousands of messages, but it only made a small dent in my storage. I also have a tab called advertising, which along with promotions, is essentially all junk, so I periodically display and delete everything in those tab areas. Chances are that most of the mail in these tabs will be of little interest. One way to get rid of a lot of junk is to use Gmail’s tabs on the left that let you view your mail by categories such as Social, Promotions, Updates, and Forums. You can also search for specific periods of time, which is a way of just deleting messages with attachments from specific years. That’s more efficient than scrolling through everything but still very time consuming. Messages that only have text take up very little storage, but anything with an attachment can take up a lot of space, so I’ve been known to use Gmail’s search tool to search for messages with attachments to delete those that I don’t need. It is, however, sometimes interesting to look at old messages for those gems that are worth reliving. It’s a good strategy but, frankly, I rarely do that which is why my inbox now has 996,199 messages even though I have deleted thousands of messages over the years.Īnother strategy is to delete them when you think about it, but if you have thousands of messages, that can be very time consuming.
Some people prune their email on a daily basis. These go into a trash folder where they remain for 30 days, though you can manually empty it if you want.
One thing you can do is go through your inbox to get rid of unneeded messages by clicking on the box (or round icon on a phone) to the left of each message and then deleting all checked messages.
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