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Gmail delete - colpol - 20-09-2023
Have been slack and now my gmail inbox has 1300+ emails. Anyone now how to delete them all without doing it page by page.
Cheers
Colin
RE: Gmail delete - king1 - 20-09-2023
when you select a page full of messages, gmail used to come up with a text message at the top of the message list, something like...
“All … messages on this page are selected.”
"Select all … messages in Inbox”
click that to select everything
RE: Gmail delete - Olive - 20-09-2023
Go to the square button at top left, choose "select all" then delete.
RE: Gmail delete - colpol - 20-09-2023
King1
That option doesn't appear for me so my not be available now.
Olive.
Only deletes visible page.
RE: Gmail delete - king1 - 20-09-2023
here's a how to on the subject that shows the process
https://clean.email/blog/email-providers/how-to-select-all-in-gmail
RE: Gmail delete - R2x1 - 20-09-2023
Option is still available on mine, BUT ONLY AFTER SELECTING ALL ON THE PAGE
RE: Gmail delete - colpol - 20-09-2023
Went to that page and followed instructions
[*]Now, above your messages in the inbox, you will see a message stating, “All … messages on this page are selected.”
[*]To choose all messages, click the words, “Select all … messages in Inbox” to check every message in the inbox.
Nothing appears as stated. Select "all" and it only selects page. Must be something In am not doing.
RE: Gmail delete - colpol - 20-09-2023
Found it
. All in the fine print. You were all right, I didn't read it correctly. Thank you all. My first posting in this new forum and like the old one good answers from a good bunch of members.
Cheers
Colin
RE: Gmail delete - Kenj - 21-09-2023
Welcome, I miss the old one but the new one is getting better as time goes by.
RE: Gmail delete - Oh_hunnihunni - 21-09-2023
I find gmail a pain at times. Especially the search function which appears to be deliberately dumb.
RE: Gmail delete - Olive - 21-09-2023
I find that the search function works quite well, but sometimes it will search only the latest 50 emails and you need to tell it to search older ones. And make sure you are searching "all mail" and not just a single label.
RE: Gmail delete - king1 - 21-09-2023
Gmail actually has quite a few search options you can use
eg QUOTES "test search" for searching a phrase
and FROM "from: bob@thebuilder.com"
Full list is here
https://support.google.com/mail/answer/7190?hl=en
on google search you can also use "site:nz" which is sometimes useful
RE: Gmail delete - piroska - 25-09-2023
(21-09-2023, 08:07 AM)Oh_hunnihunni Wrote: I find gmail a pain at times. Especially the search function which appears to be deliberately dumb.
Forgotten what the old ISP emails used to be like then? Xtra especially, Gmail has a damn good spam filter, the best I've come across, working in various ISPs too. At Webdrive they all said forget the domain email, use Gmail as the spam flter (regardless of which actual sub-company you went with, was crap. and it was.
It allows quite a large amount of undeleted mail too. far better than orcon.
And pretty easy to use, plenty of help guides around if you need them.
The white list blacklist works well too.
I was using it for years, even with my domain. Now just as @gmail.
And no changing email addresses either just because you change providers. Who remembers yahoo, hotmail etc. Ugh.