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Zack (Doc)

More options Jul 26 2007, 7:02 am

From: "Zack (Doc)" <z...@tnan.net>

Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 07:02:36 -0400

Local: Thurs, Jul 26 2007 7:02 am

Subject: Re: [Gmail-Users] Re: Finding (and deleting) large attachments

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It sounds like GMail may not be the solution for you, cause there is
no way to search by size. There's not even an easy way to see the
size (since it's not presented in list view).

There are, however, ways to handle this that you don't seem to be considering.

You can search like this "filename:jpg" and find just the attachments
with certain extensions. Some filetypes we know tend to be larger, so
that way you'll be finding the larger ones.

You can set up another GMail account, set this one to forward and
delete. That way this one retains everything it has, you start fresh
with the other one, and people can still use this address to send to
you, so they don't have to change. This keeps you from having to
delete at all.

You can turn on POP and download all messages, then delete ALL mail
that has an attachment. You have the attachments downloaded via the
POP, so there's no danger in loosing anything. Your mail client will
likely have a way to sort/search by size, so you could do that there
while your GMail account remains much smaller due to the mass
deletion.

On 7/25/07, Rob Yeichner <rob.yeich...@gmail.com> wrote:

> The link answered A QUESTION, just not the question that was asked.
> Yes, the sky appears blue. No, it did not help me find large
> attachments. :) Would have been great if the question/title was
> "Finding (and deleting) attachments" but it wasn't.

> Anyone making any more progress on this? I have hundreds of e-mails
> with attachments, if I have to open each one to find attachment size,
> gail obviously isn't the solution I was hoping for.

> On Jul 25, 2:33 pm, "Tyler Cheatham" <tcheath...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > The link you provided has a CLEAR explanation on how to search for messages
> > with attachments, I just did it and got resuls that are archived, in my
> > inbox, and messages that have been deleted. I dont think you can get any
> > more specific, you will just have to open each message and see what it
> > contains.

> > On 7/25/07, Eliezer Broder <ebro...@gmail.com> wrote:

> > >http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=7190doesn't help me.
> > > Any ideas?

> > > On 7/16/07, Eliezer Broder <ebro...@gmail.com> wrote:

> > > > I've reached 95% of my Gmail account's email capacity. Looks like I
> > > > need to start deleting... Is there a way for me to search for all emails
> > > > with attachments larger than (for example) 1 MB? Or at least sort by
> > > > attachment size?

> > > > Thanks!
> > > > Eliezer- Hide quoted text -

> > - Show quoted text -

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