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The era of 15GB free Gmail storage is ending
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Re: The era of 15GB free Gmail storage is ending
#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's also annoying you cannot delete the attachments whilst keeping the text of the email. It's all or nothing.
You both guys are today's lucky 10000! You can export entire gmail history with takeout and import the history locally to thunderbird. You can even make backup of it. Then delete everything and anything you want from the online gmail. Select 50 items at a time with "Select all" and delete page by page, go guys you can make it!
Good solution. Then, how can I backup the Thunderbird store/DB/whatever so I can access it later?
Re: The era of 15GB free Gmail storage is ending
#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
You both guys are today's lucky 10000! You can export entire gmail history with takeout and import the history locally to thunderbird. You can even make backup of it. Then delete everything and anything you want from the online gmail. Select 50 items at a time with "Select all" and delete page by page, go guys you can make it!
Good solution. Then, how can I backup the Thunderbird store/DB/whatever so I can access it later?
Backup the thunderbird profile, it's just a directory. Seriously why my parent comment is downvoted FFS?! WTF? You are receiving free advice while others would sell you paid subscription for it.
Re: The era of 15GB free Gmail storage is ending
#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think it's more likely that it's to limit people getting unlimited storage with multiple accounts by limiting it to 15gb per phone number
> Google has confirmed that it's testing a 5GB storage limit for some new Gmail users, unless they add their number. If 5GB users don't have to enter phone, then I think they will not be able to stop unlimited usage anyway.
Yeah. They'll never be able to stop it, but I wouldn't be surprised if just adding a little extra roadblock makes a measurable difference in their storage costs
Re: The era of 15GB free Gmail storage is ending
#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's also annoying you cannot delete the attachments whilst keeping the text of the email. It's all or nothing.
You both guys are today's lucky 10000! You can export entire gmail history with takeout and import the history locally to thunderbird. You can even make backup of it. Then delete everything and anything you want from the online gmail. Select 50 items at a time with "Select all" and delete page by page, go guys you can make it!
I'm using Thunderbird for the accounts I care about. I know I could hook into Gmail using IMAP. Just sayin' the Gmail UX for deleting is horrible and Thunderbird existing is no excuse for that.
Re: The era of 15GB free Gmail storage is ending
#26I'm guessing 90%+ of my Gmail inbox could be deleted without me batting an eye, I just can't be bothered because the UX t do so is horrible. Who on earth thought deleting 50 mails at a time is sufficient in the days of multi-GB inboxes?
> Who on earth thought deleting 50 mails at a time is sufficient in the days of multi-GB inboxes?
whoever profits on using your data for advertising services like
Re: The era of 15GB free Gmail storage is ending
#27I remember the magic that was 1GB (and "infinite" because it kept slowly growing) email storage back when Hotmail gave you maybe 5MB. Crazy to think it was over 20 years ago.
When GMail launched, there was loads of wrappers people wrote to use it as a file store instead of E-Mail, because it was so much for the time.... But now E-Mail, like the rest of the internet is so damn heavy, 1GB gets eaten up in no time.
i remember using gspace as a firefox plugin to store stuff in my gmail account. it's probably still there in my 20 years old emails.
funnily enough, if it was possible to find the source code of that plugin somewhere, i could probably tell some LLM to cook up some tool to find all such emails and extract the files.
Re: The era of 15GB free Gmail storage is ending
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Re: The era of 15GB free Gmail storage is ending
#29It seems fairly obvious that the "identity" portion of this is more important than the actual cost of providing the storage. Though maybe more folks than I imagine can hit the 5GB limit quickly. I have emails dating back to 2008 and just calculated I am only using 8.5GB. I keep everything so getting down to 5GB would be a hassle more than a challenge.
I would argue that Google really wants to earn your storage dollars. Their constant notifications on my device warning me I was low on space is what drove me to Immich.
Re: The era of 15GB free Gmail storage is ending
#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
You both guys are today's lucky 10000! You can export entire gmail history with takeout and import the history locally to thunderbird. You can even make backup of it. Then delete everything and anything you want from the online gmail. Select 50 items at a time with "Select all" and delete page by page, go guys you can make it!
I'm using Thunderbird for the accounts I care about. I know I could hook into Gmail using IMAP. Just sayin' the Gmail UX for deleting is horrible and Thunderbird existing is no excuse for that.
If you don't care enough about your gmail to bother setting up thunderbird for it, why keeping it at all.