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I am nearing the 15Gb limit of my Google drive and want to free up space. I have unsuccessfully tried the method suggested in a website, including whose URL prevents seems to prevent progress in this medium.
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Emails can be deleted in large amount using the web browser if you follow the instructions below.
This functions are not available on mobile browsers and Gmail Apps.
Basically you search for the mails and then remove them:
To finally delete the mails please navigate to the label Trash and click on the link Empty Trash now.
Please remember that this action cannot be undone and once mails are deleted from Trash you can never get them back.k
This functions are not available on mobile browsers and Gmail Apps.
Basically you search for the mails and then remove them:
- Find mails that you want to delete:
- You can search for before:2009/01/01 in the top search bar, also use other parameters as found here OR
- navigate to the label that contains the mails you want to remove OR
- select the label All mail to remove all messages from your account.
- Select the messages with the checkbox above the message list.
- Click on the link Select all x,xxx conversations... that appears if you have more messages than displayed on the current page.
- Click the delete button to send all mails to Trash.
To finally delete the mails please navigate to the label Trash and click on the link Empty Trash now.
Please remember that this action cannot be undone and once mails are deleted from Trash you can never get them back.k
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I have found the option to select all that that meet the search criterion - problem solved.
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Emails can be deleted in large amount using the web browser if you follow the instructions below.
This functions are not available on mobile browsers and Gmail Apps.
Basically you search for the mails and then remove them:
To finally delete the mails please navigate to the label Trash and click on the link Empty Trash now.
Please remember that this action cannot be undone and once mails are deleted from Trash you can never get them back.k
This functions are not available on mobile browsers and Gmail Apps.
Basically you search for the mails and then remove them:
- Find mails that you want to delete:
- You can search for before:2009/01/01 in the top search bar, also use other parameters as found here OR
- navigate to the label that contains the mails you want to remove OR
- select the label All mail to remove all messages from your account.
- Select the messages with the checkbox above the message list.
- Click on the link Select all x,xxx conversations... that appears if you have more messages than displayed on the current page.
- Click the delete button to send all mails to Trash.
To finally delete the mails please navigate to the label Trash and click on the link Empty Trash now.
Please remember that this action cannot be undone and once mails are deleted from Trash you can never get them back.k
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'You can search for before:2009/01/01 in the top search bar' I tried that but it gave no results (or at most one or two) even right up to 2018 0- I have a quarter of a million emails stored !
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I have found a search term that DOES give the required result. It is modeled on "in:anywhere after:2009/1/1 before:2011/1/1" , but it offers only 50 emails to be deleted - requiring a very tedious process to delete ALL the relevant ones. Advice from the web that " All 50 conversations on this page are selected. Select all conversations that match this search" gets offered on ticking the Select-All box, is not realized in MY Gmail. So how can I delete ALL the thousands of unwanted emails in one fell swoop ?
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What happens if you click on the Select all conversations that match this search?
Does the text disappear/change after?
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from:(2018/01/01) to:(2019/11/01) in All Mail returns nothing when there are over a thousand mails.
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