Reclaim space in gmail - delete archive'd messages

Running out of space in Gmail?

You could check the archived messages in Gmail and delete them to get some space back.


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gmail is by default provided with 15GB storage space (which is shared with google drive and google photos as well).

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I have written some Gmail filters to move not so important messages to archive. Even this archive is counted towards storage space. By means of freeing up the archive, we could reclaim space.


How to get archived messages?

Search in gmail with following:
has:nouserlabels -in:Sent -in:Chat -in:Draft -in:Inbox   

This will show all archived messages.


Now, you can add more filters and delete them something like
has:nouserlabels -in:Sent -in:Chat -in:Draft -in:Inbox    from:Amazon 



Select the messages (use select all option which pops up) delete them and delete the files from "Trash" as well.


has:nouserlabels -in:Sent -in:Chat -in:Draft -in:Inbox   -in:important 


Select the messages (use select all option which pops up) delete them and delete the files from "Trash" as well.


You should be able to see the reclaimed space :)