How to partially export your old emails from GMail

 Now that Google Photos changed its policies most of us have been overloaded with synchronized photos that are filling the available space in our Google accounts.. but nobody likes to delete photos (mind that it could be needed to stop the sync with GPhotos thought) so lets try to tackle the issue from a different angle

In order to clean up the GMail inbox of old emails one can follow this procedure:

1. Perform a search until the desired date
   
2. Select all the conversations and apply a tag to all of them
3. Go to Google takeout and search for Google Mail
   
4. Click on the right button and select only the tag you just created
   
5. Follow the instructions and create the export
6. Wait until the export is finished and download and save your export
   
7. Go to GMail and perform the search again, then select all the messages and delete them. Last, empty your trash.
   

I hope this serves you well! My drive usage gone from 18.44 GB to 18GB

 

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Update:Seems like Google takes a while to recalculate the usage, so it actually went down to 15.67GB, now it's not even red wow