There was a time when many of us thought we were never going to fill the space Google gave us when opening an account; This opinion quickly changed when we started uploading the photos we took with our phones with Google Photos, when we started saving large files to Google Drive, and when we started automatically saving backup copies of our photos. WhatsApp chats.
With all of this, it’s no surprise that many people have already spent, or are about to spend, the 15 GB that Google offers to free accounts In Europe; That’s an easier amount of storage to fill than it seems these days, especially with HD video.
The “official” alternative is of course to pay for a Google One account. The good news in this case is that we have several options, starting with a basic package at just 1.99 dollars per month; For these few dollars we can get 100 GB of storage, which should last us much longer if we took the time to fill the 15 GB we had so far. If you opt for the annual subscription, it is even cheaper, since it costs 19.99 dollars per year (which would be 1.65 dollars per month).
Plus, a Google One account offers more benefits than just more Drive storage capacity; It also allows us to access exclusive functions in certain company applications, such as Google Photos, in addition to using services like Google’s VPN to improve our privacy. In short, as soon as you use Google and its services, It’s something worth doing.
Of course, not everyone can or wants to pay 2 dollars per month, and in this case there are not many other options than to clean the emails or start deleting the files that we have in Drive… although there is a “trick” that can help us in the worst case.
The trick to saving space
This tip, shared on various social networks and technology pages, essentially involves: create a second Google account and associate it with our main Gmail account. The new account will have 15 GB free that we can use as we wish, and we will be able to continue receiving emails without having to change our email address.
Linking a second Gmail account to the main account is very simple. We must first create a Google account by accessing the official page with another browser or with a private tab (so that it does not use our main Google account). We can put the address and name we want.
First step to forward emails from Gmail account
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Once we have created this second account, we enter Gmail with our first account and click on the Settings icon (the gear); here, we enter “See all parameters”.
Next step to forward mail from Gmail account
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On the screen that will open, we must enter the “POP/IMAP forwarding and mail” tab, and click on the “Add forwarding address” button. In the window that will open we will have to enter the address of the second account that we created. From then on, all the emails we receive on the first account will be automatically sent to the second account, where they will start to occupy the free space.
To free up Drive space, we can download the files and upload them to the second account; For example, leave the first account for WhatsApp and the second account for files that we are not going to use much.
How to add a second Google account
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Finally, we can add the second Google account to the first in a simple way; Just click on our account icon in the upper right corner, where we will find the “Add another account” button; On the screen that will open we must log in with the second account. From then on, you can switch from one to the other without having to change browser.
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