How to delete large numbers of email in Gmail Chrome?

[Robert]

My email reader is the standard interface in Google Chrome. The
process to delete email from my inbox is limited to small chunks of
email, 20 at a time.

How can I delete hundreds or even thousands of emails at a time?

For example, I want to filter on a particular sender and delete all of
those hundreds of emails; however, I see no way to do so in the
standard Gmail Chrome interface.

I would rather not use MS Outlook, but am willing to listen to
arguments for using it.

Would appreciate some words of wisdom.

Robin

[Zack (Doc)]

You can go through the process of creating a filter (like this: http://goo.gl/kLvJg) and have the option set to delete messages.  Then you can use the "apply to all messages" option to get them all taken care of.

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[Andy]

> How can I delete hundreds or even thousands of emails at a time?

I don't think it matters which browser you use to do this, but it
works in Chrome.

When you have all the messages (and only the messages) you want to be
deleted, click the check-box near the upper left of the list that
selects all of them. Yes, this selects only the 20 that are on-screen
at the moment. But just above the first message, there will also be a
question/link to apply your selection to all the messages, not only
those on-screen. Click on that. Now click the Delete button, and
click yes when it asks you to confirm.

Andy

[Bill Matthews]

Andy,

I don't see anything like this you are talking about:  "But just above the first message, there will also be a

question/link to apply your selection to all the messages, not only
those on-screen.  Click on that.  Now click the Delete button, and
click yes when it asks you to confirm."

 Are we talking about Gmail?

Thanks, but I don't follow you
Bill

On Wednesday, December 28, 2011 12:10:00 AM UTC-5, Andy wrote:

> How can I delete hundreds or even thousands of emails at a time?

I don't think it matters which browser you use to do this, but it
works in Chrome.

When you have all the messages (and only the messages) you want to be
deleted, click the check-box near the upper left of the list that
selects all of them.  Yes, this selects only the 20 that are on-screen
at the moment.  

Andy

[Zack (Doc)]

Yes, he is, and here's GMail's own help center article talking about it as well: https://support.google.com/mail/answer/35088?hl=en

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[Marko Vukovic]

On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 12:29 PM, Zack (Doc) <za...@tnan.net> wrote:

Yes, he is, and here's GMail's own help center article talking about it as well: https://support.google.com/mail/answer/35088?hl=en

Just noticed, I don't seem to have the Select all [number] conversations in [current view] link any more when selecting all. 

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Marko

[Kenneth Ayers]

I'm still getting the 

All 100 conversations on this page are selected. Select all 1,826 conversations in "Groups/Gmail-Users"

where the Select All sentence is a link to select them all.

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[Marko Vukovic]

On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 2:59 PM, Kenneth Ayers <justk...@gmail.com> wrote:

I'm still getting the 

All 100 conversations on this page are selected. Select all 1,826 conversations in "Groups/Gmail-Users"

where the Select All sentence is a link to select them all.

Ok it doesn't seem to work in any of the tabs, not even 'Primary'. If I turn off the tabs then the link appears.

It still works from within a label as you say Kenneth.

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Marko

[Kenneth Ayers]

Marko,

Are you talking about the Inbox category tabs?  

I don't have enough conversations in any of those tabs to test it.  But when I view one of the categories from the left sidebar and select all there, I get the same sort of message with a link to really select them all.  But when viewing the categories from the sidebar, you're getting more than just those that are still in the inbox.

Kenneth

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[Andy]

Keep in mind that the "Select all 5,432 conversations in ..." thing, does not appear until after you click the check-box in the upper left corner to Select All.

Andy

[Marko Vukovic]

On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 5:01 PM, Kenneth Ayers <justk...@gmail.com> wrote:

Are you talking about the Inbox category tabs?  

I don't have enough conversations in any of those tabs to test it.  But when I view one of the categories from the left sidebar and select all there, I get the same sort of message with a link to really select them all.  But when viewing the categories from the sidebar, you're getting more than just those that are still in the inbox.

Yes Kenneth I'm talking about the new categories ie. Primary, Social, Promotions, Updates, Forums. 

What do you mean 'left sidebar'? Are you talking about labels? I've already established that it works from the label view.

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[Marko Vukovic]

On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 8:43 PM, Andy <AI.e...@gmail.com> wrote:

Keep in mind that the "Select all 5,432 conversations in ..." thing, does not appear until after you click the check-box in the upper left corner to Select All.

Thanks Andy, see highlghted.

Just noticed, I don't seem to have the Select all [number] conversations in [current view] link any more when selecting all. 

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Marko

[Bill Matthews]

That doesn't help me either. That has nothing to do that I can see with deleting a large number of messages at one time.

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[Bill Matthews]

Andy
It doesn't appear even after I check that "Select All" box. Where are you getting that?

Bill

On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 2:43 PM, Andy <AI.e...@gmail.com> wrote:

Keep in mind that the "Select all 5,432 conversations in ..." thing, does not appear until after you click the check-box in the upper left corner to Select All.

Andy

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[Andy]

On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 3:08 PM, Bill Matthews <bmmo...@gmail.com> wrote:

Andy
It doesn't appear even after I check that "Select All" box. Where are you getting that?

In Gmail, one line above the first conversation.  See attached.

See the other replies about different versions of the Inbox, which may affect it.

Andy

[Andy]

That has nothing to do that I can see with deleting a large number of messages at one time.

Yes it does.  In order to delete a large number of messages at one time, you need to mark them first.  The Help page tells you how to mark all of the selected messages (all messages in a label, or from a search).

Andy

[Marko Vukovic]

On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 7:42 AM, Andy <AI.e...@gmail.com> wrote:

Andy
It doesn't appear even after I check that "Select All" box. Where are you getting that?

In Gmail, one line above the first conversation.  See attached.

See the other replies about different versions of the Inbox, which may affect it.

Yup that's the problem, here you can see that I have the 'Select all' checkbox checked within the 'Forums' tab but the link does not appear. If, however I click on my [Gmail-Users] label and then select all, then it does appear.

 

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[Wagner Oliver]

1) Search your Gmail using this function (example): after:2010/1/1 before:2014/1/1

2) Select all.

3) Check the notification: "All 20 conversations on this page are selected. Select all conversations that match this search"

4) Click on: "Select all conversations that match this search"

5) Delete all messages

6) Go to trash. Select all. Click on: "Select all conversations"

7) Click "Delete forever".

BTW: Before you delete a large number of messages you can create a backup (and download it and burn it on a DVD) using this link: https://www.google.com/settings/takeout