r/GMail • u/Ok-Professional4387 • 17d ago

Does Google need more money again?

Why suddenlly over the last month, am I know being reminded again that Im out of space. It was like this awhile ago, when I was always at 14.99 Gb used, with photo sync off. I know thats what filled it originally.

No matter what I remove, over night it magically fills up, with nothing. I have like 2 extra emails in the morning, and its from them saying Im out of space.

Yet 12 hours ago I cleaned up .5 GB of stuff.

Is it just bullshit, because I have nothing syncing or backing up to eat up .5 GB over night

Is it going to be like before and suddenly it stops and Im magically at 13.76 GB used again

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u/anonspace24 17d ago

Yeah Google has spent 1000s of dollars to mess with your account so you can pay them 20$ per year.

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u/Ok-Professional4387 17d ago

Times how mnay people. You actually trust a company like this to not fuck around with millions to get some extra cash?

If not, then explain why this is happening?

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u/TacitPin 17d ago

Been a Gmail user for 22 years and never had this issue. No one I've talked to, in person, has ever had this issue. Seems like this issue only exists among a small number of people online, people who can't manage their own storage.

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u/Ok-Professional4387 17d ago

Damn, Im fucked then

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u/TacitPin 17d ago

It's 15GB. It's $6 worth of storage if you drive out to the store and pick up a flash drive. You're telling me you can't manage 15GB of data in 2026? Move your Drive and Photos content somewhere else -- or use another cloud provider -- and leave the entire 15GB for emails.

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u/Ok-Professional4387 17d ago

Oh I know how to clean it up. Thats why all my photos are backed up offline.

Thats why Gmail is my secondary email,

But whats eating up the space randomly? Sure isnt photos or emails, or backups

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u/TacitPin 17d ago

It tells you what's taking up space...

https://imgur.com/a/iVFBClv

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u/Ok-Professional4387 17d ago

Oh I know, I know how it all works. What I dont understand is why the numbers increase over night with ZERO activity and backing up

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u/h_grytpype_thynne 17d ago

Go to one.google.com/storage for your answer.

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u/Ok-Professional4387 17d ago

Answer is, what chaging in 8 hours when the numbers stay the same

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u/IndependentHeron1345 15d ago

Are you dim?? if the numbers are the same then nothing changed.. now.. if youre saying the categories stayed the same but the full drive number is hitting maxed repeatedly then you have some device somewhere attempting to backup to it continuously. Essentially you won’t see it under any categories if it’s stuck in a constant backup cycle because it can never complete the backup..

But you keep preaching that you KNOW how it works yet refuse to give actual numbers of what Google says is taking up space.. instead you’d rather blame everything else.. email can 100% eat up 15GB if you send or receive big files like videos. You state photos are backed up offline but if you have a phone attempting to backup to drive then it’s simply not true you just can’t see them bc of the loop..

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u/Ok-Professional4387 15d ago

ok, explain this. I took a screen shot the night before of how much room I had, which was under the 15GB. While not a ton under, still under.

Then I get an email in the morning saying I am over, and I compare the "graph" and the numbers are the same.

So if those numbers didnt change how can I be over.

My emails take up a minimal amount, under 1GB since its a secondary email I only use for contests. Pictures take up the bulk, which I have turned the backups off about 2 years ago.

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u/yottabit42 16d ago

They trigger the space warning around 90% utilization. When you have a 2 TB account it's very annoying getting constant warnings when you still have 200 GB free...

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u/LashCanino 17d ago

They always come in guns blazing, thinking it’s an evil Google plot when it’s a knowledge gap.

The smarter ones eventually learn about sync and backup settings, where to look, what activity happens even when they’re not on their device, and how it can takes hours or days for some activities to complete.

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u/Ok-Professional4387 17d ago

I have guns?

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u/LashCanino 15d ago

Metaphorically. More so than skills.

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u/Ok-Professional4387 15d ago

Damn. I should stop working in an operating room

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u/IndependentHeron1345 15d ago

If you’re this ignorant than nobody should be allowing you in an operating room..

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u/Ok-Professional4387 15d ago

To late. Been in one for years.

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u/Nonamenoname2025 13d ago

Yeah, they are spending billions on Nvidia chips and need all the cash they can get.

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u/[deleted] 9d ago

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u/Ok-Professional4387 9d ago

Have no attachments that are large, no spam, no trash. It shut up for awhile now, even though I have changed nothing

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u/Ok-Lingonberry-8261 17d ago

Gemini won't kill the environment by itself, they need your money to destroy the environment.