Don’t have space in Google Photos? So you can free your memory

The company Google It has evolved over the years and currently offers its users multiple platforms, with which they can send emails, make presentations, prepare documents, and even store photos in the cloud, all in 15 GB for free.

Although apparently this space may seem sufficient, in the long run and as some apps are used, it will decrease, until it reaches 0% storage.

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For many this could be fatal, because the place where they support their audiovisual material is in Google Photosand in the same way, this would complicate the entry of new emails.

To prevent this, or to take action in this regard, in case this is your situation, we want to share some options to free up space, or acquire it, whatever your choice, it will allow you to make that little hole in the cloud that you need.

The first thing you should know is that Not all Google apps take up space in your storageand there are 3 specific apps that are the ones that will bring the greatest storage complications, therefore, we focus on them to solve this situation.

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Free up space in Google Photos

The classic option: delete what no longer serves you, many times we have a photo repeated 15 times, or that gallery of vibrated photos that we will not use, which you can delete without guilt and thus stop taking up space. Be careful with the videos, they are usually the ones that cover the most space.

It is not about erasing for erasing sake, but about optimize resourcesA good option is to take into account if you posted photos or videos on your social networks, since in this way, they will remain stored there, so you can delete material with complete peace of mind.

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Do not forget that after a good debugging, you must enter the trash to permanently delete these files.

A good tip is that your backup copy is saved with high quality, and not originalsince the videos and photos are compressed, so you will have more storage space available, to do it you just have to follow the following steps:

Get rid of useless emails to free up space

Whether you constantly use your mail, or have it forgotten, in both cases, your inbox is probably overflowingso freeing up space on this side will be great for you.

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The web version of Gmail, includes advanced filters with which you can find messages that take up too much space, such as those with attached files.

If you use the filter larger:10M, you will find messages that take up more than 10 MB, and so on, the filter for larger:30M will find those that take up more than 30 MB, the point is to evaluate if those emails, which take up so much space, still work. important.

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Say goodbye to large Google Drive files

Google Drive is one of Google’s most useful tools, since it allows you to store files in different formats in the cloud, some of them can use considerable space, for this, Is there an easy way to identify them?this is possible on the website.

You must enter the “Storage” section, a list will appear where all your files will be, and their order will go from highest to lowest, this means that the files at the top will be the ones that occupy the most storage space, and will go down as soon as to its weight, in this way you will be able to identify and evaluate what stays and what goes.

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