How To Find Large Files On Gmail

Search Gmail messages by Size using the undocumented "size" operator

Wondering which electronic mail messages are eating upwardly all the Gigabytes of space that you have in your Gmail mailbox? While at that place be Google Gmail Scripts that let y'all discover all the infinite-hogging email attachments, you lot don't actually need them anymore.

Gmail supports an undocumented "size" search operator that you tin use to speedily detect all the large emails in the mailbox whose size exceeds a detail threshold. The search syntax is:

size:[size in bytes]

To give a real example, a Gmail search query like size:5242880 will list all big emails who size is 5 MB or greater while size:10485760 will list email messages that are bigger than 10 MB.

You may specify the size in MB as well which makes it a lot easier. For instance, size:5MB (or say size:5M) will detect all Gmail messages that are 5 MB or greater in size.

Combine the size search operator in Gmail with has:attachment and filename:ext operator and you have all the email messages that take attachments that are of a particular file blazon.

Gmail Size Search for Large Attachments

size:5mb has:attachment - All emails larger than 5 MB containing file attachments.

size:10mb has:zipper filename:pdf - Emails larger than 10 MB PDF attachments.

In addition to size, you can use search operators like larger, larger_than, smaller and smaller_than to discover files of any particular size. A combination of these size search operators is possible too. For case, the following Gmail search query will find all emails with zipper sizes betwixt five MB and 8 MB.

larger_than:5m smaller_than:8M

Once you have spotted the large emails attachments that are taking also much space, apply the #googleDrive label to straight save those attachments to Google Drive before deleting them from your Gmail mailbox.