Undocumented Gmail Search Operator Ferrets Out Large Email Attachments

Posted by Jason Fitzpatrick on How to geek See other posts from How to geek or by Jason Fitzpatrick
Published on Fri, 09 Nov 2012 18:00:44 GMT Indexed on 2012/11/09 23:06 UTC
Read the original article Hit count: 501

Filed under:
|
|
|

If you’re looking for a way to quickly find large email attachments in your Gmail account, this undocumented search operator makes it simple to zero in on the hulking attachments hiding out in your inbox.

To use the search operator simply plug in “size:” and some value to narrow your search to only emails that size or larger. In the screenshot above we searched for “size:20000000″ to search for files roughly 20MB or larger (if you want to be extremely precise, a true 20MB search would be “size:20971520″).

If you’re looking to clean up your Gmail account this is a nearly zero-effort way to find the biggest space hogs–in our case, we found an email packed with massive PDF files from a 5 year old project that we were more than happy to purge.

Finding Large Attachments in Google Mail/Gmail [via gHacks]

6 Ways Windows 8 Is More Secure Than Windows 7
HTG Explains: Why It’s Good That Your Computer’s RAM Is Full
10 Awesome Improvements For Desktop Users in Windows 8


© How to geek or respective owner

Related posts about search

Related posts about News