Maybe ya'll can help me out...

I had about 12.3 mb of internal storage memory left on my phone before I went in to messages>gmail>send and receive and DLed my mail. In that pack of mail I forgot one particular message I sent to myself was in there with a lot of pictures.

The phone couldn't save it all; memory went dangerously low to about 0.30 mb...... no problem... I didn't want to have that message anyway. so after viewing my mail... I delete all the messages (from both the inbox & deleted items folders) ... but my memory is only back to 9.30 mb as supposed to 12.30... what happened to that extra 3 mb? I've checked in pictures and video... nothing extra is there... also restarted the phone and that hassn't changed anything.

Can someone tell me what's going on?

Thanks.

First of all, you need to go to your email settings and have attachments saved to the storage card.

You may also want to use something like sk tools to free up ram, and see what that does.

Look thru the file structure with explorer for a folder that is called something like "mail attachments" . I'll bet your large attachments are there.

Delete them and set the handset to save attachments to the SD card just like Tony said.

HTH

Bob Duckworth

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do a search for large files over 64 KB

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In Windows/Messaging you will find remnants of texts and emails. Usually the files are 0B (I assume these are texts). However, some of the files will have some info in them (usually emails that were fully downloaded not just the 2K header). I think you can delete everything in this folder without having any issues. I have done this several times.

Add on: I just freed up 2Mb by doing this and I do not download that many emails.

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or get memaid if u can
it will tell you where all your memory is going

Is there a way to have all the emails go to a folder on the storage card?

Not 100% sure...You can store attachments on the card...

Click Tools, Options, Storage. There is a checkbox to store all attachments on card.

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I did select the option to have the attachments on the card, but being able to store all email on the card would help.