2006-12-02 16:21:00 · 3 answers · asked by hardwood 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Internet
The actual message portion of an e-mail message takes little storage space. If the message has a large attachment, then yes, your inbox folder might start consuming space on the hard drive. I would however generally not worry about e-mails eating space unless you get a large amount of e-mails with large attachments.
2006-12-02 16:49:20 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you are using a client program like Outlook, Yes, that email takes up a tiny spec of space on your hard disk. Checking your email in yahoo, or another browser based online email service doesn't transfer any content to your actual hard disk. It is stored on Yahoo, or whoever's server.
Depending on the file size of the attachment you download it may or may not take up much space at all. If you right click on the file, and go to properties, you can see how big the file is in megabytes. Chances are unless you are collecting hundreds of videos, or thousands of hi-res pictures, you shouldn't have any problem. This depends of course on the size of your hard drive altogether though. Clicking on My Computer, and then right clicking on the "C" drive, then properties will give you a pie chart of your hard drive space used, and free.
-Zach
2006-12-03 00:45:54 · answer #2 · answered by zachsandberg 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you download the email to your computer using a pop3 account, then yes the attachment takes space on your computer. Not lots though since most email providers limit attachment sizes to 10-25MB.
If you do not use a pop3 account but visit a site like http://mail.yahoo.com or http://mail.google.com, then the attachment does not take space on your hard disc
2006-12-03 00:48:20 · answer #3 · answered by AJ 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋