I’ve tried googling, and I am stumped. Not sure it’s even possible. He can’t receive or send emails currently.
In the search bar type ‘Before:2022/12/31’ to load all emails before 2023. When you select the box for the 50 loaded emails, there should be a banner saying select X amount of emails. Then delete or archive them. The format for the search bar is ‘Before:YYYY/MM/DD’.
I’m sure this is good info, but it reads like a haiku.
Thanks! You are a tech poet.
Add ‘is: unread’ in front of it if you just want to delete the unread mails.
I genuinely would like to know how to do something like this, but save all the ‘important’ emails through the years. Just search those and archive them?
Was about to make fun about 30,000 emails and how this could happen. Saw I have a total of 31,432 unsorted mails on my account. That’s a lot.
Oh how the tables have turned. Mwahahaha.
In the search bar, write ‘is:unread’ - without quotation marks. Then click to mark all messages on the current page (50 messages). You will see a new message saying: Select all messages that match this search. Click on it, mark everything as read, and wait, since it will take a couple of minutes.
Create rules (or filters) in Gmail settings. Configure the conditions for how the filter will be applied (including the option to delete) and mark the option at the bottom to apply to all applicable emails. You’ll have a clean inbox in no time.
Gmail is really good with how you filter them if you want to get rid of certain ones such as using double quotes to find exact matches. However, if you want to delete them all, then select the top box. It will have a ‘do you want to select more’ or something like that (not in front of my Gmail) then you select that and it’ll select all mail and you can delete it that way.
So Boolean searches still work in Gmail? That’s interesting.
Yeah, they do. I use a lot of it when I’m filtering for stuff.
Useful to know. Cheers!
Give it a bit more time. I’m sure Google will mess that up too.
In the web version you can select all messages. When you click the select checkbox in the top left area of the screen (just under the search box), there will be an option pop up in the center under the search bar asking if you want to select all messages. Click that and then delete. I’ve had to delete over 6000 promotional emails at once. It may take a while for it to process though. Sometimes I’ve had to do it a couple of times to delete everything.
I’ve tried googling. Hmm, maybe try to use better keywords. Anyway, you’re not alone. Others have stated the solution, but here is another.
My wife has the same issue. Pretty much due to signing up for things and getting on junk lists. It got so bad I set her up a whole new email account. She proceeded to nuke that one too. I get business accounts being swamped but personal accounts should be more manageable.