Saturday, 29 December 2012

Find Emails with Large Attachment Using Gmail Size Search Operator


Using the Gmail size search operator size: [size in bytes] you can easily find the Email which having large file attachment.

If you are using a Gmail account and you have to daily deal with the Emails with large file attachments. This large size attachment Email will acquire all your account space provided by Gmail and you have to make some space free in your account you can make use of the Gmail size search operator. May of us are using different software and third party tool to find out and remove these large size Emails from our account. Now we don’t need this kind of tools or software any more.


Google Gmail supports “Size” search operator using which you can easily find out the large size attachment Emails that are there in your Gmail account. To find out the Email with large attachment in your Gmail account you just need to put “size” search operator like this

Size: [size in bytes]

You have to specify the size of Email attachment in bytes with size search operator in the search box of Gmail. For e.g. If you want to find Email which having file size up to 5 MB then you have to specify it as a (size: 5242880). As you put the size in byte with size search operator then Gmail will display you all the Emails matching that size attachment.

Note: will only consider the size in byte no other format will be accepted.

If all the Emails with large attachment are important and you cannot delete them but you want free space then you have another option for that. You need to use of Google Drive for that. We will show you how it can be done. First find our all the Emails with large attachments using Gmail size search operator. Then embed these large attachments into Google Drive account so that you will get free space in Gmail and all the large file get totally secured in Google Drive.

This is a very simple procedure using which you can make space free in your Gmail account and store more data securely. 

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