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Gmail Storage and Happy friendship day

Gmail provides us 7+ GB space for the messages. When I first found out that my Gmail free space quota was being exceeded, I went for some Gsearch and found that the Google storage for a user gets shared across Gmail, Picasa and Docs and I thought this Gstorage is nothing but the same 7+ GB space and deleted some pics from my Picasa which were part of my blog on blogspot (pics uploded to blog gets stored in picasa). But I was wrong. Google provides 7 GB only for the messages and attachments. And then the additional space for other services. In Google's words: Free storage space is specific to each product. Free storage from one product cannot be used by or transferred to another product. Gmail provides 7+ GB (and counting) for Gmail messages. Docs provides 1 GB for your uploaded files (documents created in Google Docs and converted files don't count towards your storage, but do have some size limitations ). Picasa Web provides 1 GB for photos and videos. Files under ...