Email attachments take up valuable Google storage. This article describes how duplicate attachments accumulate in your Gmail, and how you can easily r

How to Delete Duplicate Attachments in Gmail Threads

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2024-11-28 02:30:02

Email attachments take up valuable Google storage. This article describes how duplicate attachments accumulate in your Gmail, and how you can easily recover the storage taken up by these duplicate email attachments.

Suppose that your friend sends you an email with an inline image. If you reply, your response includes the original image. This means that the Gmail thread (conversation) between you and your friend now contains two emails, one from your friend and one from you, which include a copy of the same image. Your friend now also has two copies of this image.

Now let’s suppose your friend sends you an email with a regular attachment, a large zip file. If you reply, your response won’t contain the attachment. However, if you forward the email to another person, your Gmail thread will now include two copies of the zip file, one in your Inbox and one in your Sent folder.

In the examples discussed above, if you delete the email in your Sent folder, you will also lose knowledge of sending that email and anything you wrote.