Gmail cuts back from 7GB to 2GB?
Was alerted earlier today over Twitter that Gmail cut back 5GB over its email space allocation. While it was hard to believe, it lingered in my mind since I was out and couldn't check the full gmail interface. Well, I could but it would have taken a lot more bandwidth that the regular mobile version I get with the iPhone so I didn't bother.
Around last year, I've stopped actively deleting most of my emails and started using Gmail the way they wanted us to since the beginning and that is to never delete an email. Well, spam and clearly useless ones I delete, most I keep. Instead of deleting, I archive them.
I didn't realize it until a while later that archiving actually takes up my space allocation so I began to be more careful about archiving and today I discovered that my archive had gone beyond 2GB. Prior to archiving, I've never used more than 1% of the given space and now I've used over 20%.
Suddenly recalling the message about Gmail cutting back to 2GB, I signed out to see if it was true. Well, as you can see for yourself, the login page showed me Gmail provides just under 3GB of space. Upon logging in however, I breathed a sigh of relief.
