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First post, by Kerr Avon

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My Gmail account recently went over the 15GB limit, so I deleted a lot of emails, and photos, and I am now down to 14.6GB, so I now have 0.4GB free. The problem is, I deleted six years or so worth of emails, and a lot of photos from Google Photos, so I should have more free space than this. I am trying to find out where the bulk of the 14.6GB is, and according to Gmail's oh-so-detailed site at:

https://one.google.com/storage

I am using:

Google Drive 0 GB

Gmail 14.59 GB

Google Photos 0 GB

The problem is, I still have quite a few photos left in Google Photos (that I didn't delete, because I want to keep them), so the above figure is wrong. And the page doesn't offer a more detailed breakdown, though to be fair since the object of the page is clearly to get people to pay for more storage, why expect Google to make things easy for people who want to sort out how their free space is being used.

I can see and view my photos in Google Photos, so why does the above page insist that there are none? And how do I get Google Photos to actually tell me how many photos I have, and how much space they take up?

And since I now only have e-mails from 2018 to the present day (I have deleted the ones from 2012 to 2017 to save space, and yes, I did then empty the Gmail trash can, so they are totally deleted) then I don't believe that they come to anywhere near 14.6 GB in total.

Does anyone have any idea what can be causing this problem? And does anyone know of a contact address for Gmail, either e-mail or phone? Or even a forum for users of Gmail? I have searched avidly, but can't find any way of contacting them. Just the not too helpful site:

https://support.google.com/?hl=en

where you have to guess the possible wording of a post by someone who has earlier had the same problem as you, and then you get to look through all the threads where no actual help or solution is given to the person who posted about the problem.

Reply 1 of 5, by weedeewee

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A bit late to mention this but ... You could've made a backup of your account, downloaded it, and deleted everything in your gmail. That way you wouldn't have lost anything. It just would be less convenient to access.
Though, you could still do this.

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Reply 4 of 5, by Stiletto

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Be sure to double check this, this caught me up once, I'd uploaded a ton of stuff to other people's drives: https://drive.google.com/drive/quota

[EDIT] Oh, GMail... well, better check it anyways.

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