gmail storage

So you have join the crowd and have your storage-hunger Gmail upgraded. You then email your friends with huge attachments and upload trip photos to Picasa Web Albums worry-free. A year later, you found yourself already used 99% of the total storage … and broke, not being able to renew your $500 premium paid storage. Now you start wondering what Google’s going to do with all the chain letters you have.

This FAQ (Archive.org) from Picasa Web Albums explains (there aren’t anything particularly useful in the Help Center),

If I cancel my subscription for additional storage, what will happen to my photos?

[…] If you cancel your subscription at any time, your Picasa Web Albums account will revert to 250MB of free storage space, and any photos beyond the 250MB limit may be deleted.

You can choose to renew your account or have your beloved chain letters “be deleted”.

For comparison, Flickr offers “permanent archiving of high resolution original images” and Yahoo! Mail gives away unlimited storage for free (restrictions apply).