---
title: "Search Gmail by file size"
author: "Stan Voo"
url: https://www.99rabbits.com/blog/search-gmail-by-file-size
published: 2012-11-22
summary: "Google once promised I'd never have to delete email. Then Gmail refused to send for lack of space. The search operators that find the big ones."
---

# Search Gmail by file size

I've run into a dilemma again that, going by Google's long-standing promise, I should have forgotten about long ago:

![](https://www.99rabbits.com/blog/search-gmail-by-file-size-1.webp)

The solution was recently given by Big G itself, in its Official Gmail Blog: [http://gmailblog.blogspot.ca/2012/11/search-for-emails-by-size-and-more-in.html](http://gmailblog.blogspot.ca/2012/11/search-for-emails-by-size-and-more-in.html)

> This means, for example, to find emails larger than 5MB, you can search for **size:5m** or **larger:5m** or to find emails sent over a year ago, **older\_than:1y**.

[The full list of Gmail's advanced search operators](http://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?hl=en\&answer=7190)

Use Gmail wisely.