paulrph1 Loc: Washington, Utah

You’re out of storage space and will soon be unable to send or receive emails until you free up space or purchase additional storage. Changes to your storage space may take up to 24 hours to update.
The above phrase comes up when I go to my gmail account. Which indicates that my photos are all on my email which when I loaded them I sent them to my photos and not gmail.
Windows 10.
If I were to delete them from my email account would that take them out of my photos? How do I increase my storage without a monthly fee? Are they stored in two places?
What am I missing.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

Did you save all the emails?
The photos take up space in the emails also.

johngault007 Loc: Florida Panhandle

If they are in your inbox, it counts against your storage total. I'm not 100% sure if they automatically get stored in Google Photos from your inbox or not.

Also, Google photos has unlimited storage under a certain size. I would check Google Photos first and see if they are all there or not. If not, make sure they are backed up somewhere else, and then delete those emails.

rgrenaderphoto Loc: Hollywood, CA

I just got through this last week. Go into the Gmail web interface, scroll down until you find the trash folder and delete everything. I had 15786 messages in the trash.

If you have saved images to your Photos folder, they are out of Gmail/s hands and you can safely delete the messages. Do a search for messages with large attachments and delete them.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

If you click on "Empty Trash Now" - in blue at the top of the list, you can delete them all at once. My Gmail deletes anything that been the Trash folder for 30 days.

Hawkowl Loc: Ithaca, NY

Recently my gmail account stopped working--couldn't send or receive mail. Took me days to figure out that I too had run out of storage space for the free account. I started deleting blocks of emails but that was tedious and wasn't having much effect. Eventually I logged in to the WEB version, as rgrenaderphoto mentioned, and discovered that I had 148,000 emails in my inbox, going back many years!! The majority were store promotions and political surveys and solicitations. Long story short, at the top of the page there are tabs for categories such as "promotions", "social", etc. I clicked on "promotions", clicked "delete all", and voila! With just those two clicks, along with emptying trash, I instantly deleted 118,000 emails! So my storage was down to about 4gb and now I'm good to go. Life is good.

Picture Taker Loc: Michigan Thumb

Don't store on the computer buy an external drive to store. As a mater of fact buy 2 and double you back up for photos. If you have one and it dies you lost all. ALL hard drives will fail sooner or later.

johngault007 Loc: Florida Panhandle

He was asking about Gmail and running out of storage space due to his inbox being full?

coolhanduke Loc: Redondo Beach, CA

For the price of an external drive, I would invest in one or two. I would never store my photos on the cloud, gmail etc.

I have an 8 TB auxiliary drive with a RAID 1 configuration. That's 4 TB mirrored. I also have a portable 2TB drive that I backup onto and keep in an off location storage shed in case of a fire etc.

Carbon Copy cloner is my backup software of choice but I think it only works on Mac platform. Backs up you entire laptop drive, applications and all, and makes it bootable so if your hard drive crashes on you Mac, you plug it in and ready to go.

Picture Taker Loc: Michigan Thumb

I had a cloud account and found they kept slowing my account down. It took forever to load a days shooting. I call them and found they didn't want me as I store too much on it and as I used more space they slowed me down more and more. I closed the account and went to two separate drives which gives me redundancy