Fifteen gigabytes of free storage may sound like a lot when you make a Gmail account but it gets filled up quickly. For ...

My inbox was out of control — here are 7 ways I brought it back to a manageable place. ... or "empty trash now" to get rid of everything in one quick swoop. I chose to delete all of the messages.

In my test account with about 75,000 messages, I found that it took Gmail about 2 full days to transfer all of them from the original account to the new archived mail account.