Additional Tips for Email Recovery in Gmail

Here are a few tips for email recovery in Gmail. In case you don’t want to lose important emails, here are a few precautions you can take:

Keep your Gmail account backed up.

Many times, we might lose our important emails and not realize it until it’s too late. See, Gmail keeps these emails in the trash folder, but if you don’t recover them within the time period, Google will delete them permanently. And that doesn’t mean you can’t recover them. You can—kind of. If you have backups for your emails, in that case, you can recover them from Google Drive.

Delete old emails using advanced search

Do you need an email from 5 years ago? I’m going to guess you don’t. But these emails take up space in your storage. But by using Advanced Search, you can find these extremely old emails that are taking up space in your Gmail storage. This will do two things. Firstly, it will empty storage space. And secondly, it won’t delete any important emails that you recently received. By using Advanced Search in Gmail, you can find old emails that are useless to you and delete them.

Unsubscribe Spam Promotional Campaigns

Most of our Gmail accounts are filled to the brim by these promotional emails from various companies. First, get rid of these emails. To unsubscribe, it’s pretty simple: click on the email, scroll down, and you’ll see a button that says, “Unsubscribe” or something similar. Click on that, and it will take you to another page and ask you another time. Confirm it, and you’ll unsubscribe from the email from that sender.

Delete a particular sender’s email

If you want to bulk delete emails, instead of selecting every email, click on the search window and type in the name or email of the sender. Select all the emails from the sender and delete them in one go. This will make sure only the emails you want to delete are deleted and no other important email goes in the trash bin.

Use filters and categories.

Gmail gives you a way of organising all your emails into different categories. For that, you need to use the label column to create folders of various categories and classify each of your emails accordingly. You are obviously doing this with each email, and that is why you have the Filters feature.

With “filters,” you’ll need to define criteria for emails and what category the email fits into. Then filters will automatically move each email according to your criteria into categories created by you. When you do this, you get to delete a particular category, while all the important emails are secure in the important category.

Many times we, by mistake, delete some critical or important emails. You might have deleted emails to declutter your Gmail account or to free up space. Sometimes, we end up deleting important emails in the mix. Thankfully, it is extremely easy to recover deleted emails from Gmail in just four steps.

Here’s an article on how to recover deleted emails in Gmail account. And a few tips to make sure you never delete any important email ever again.