[OT] Deleting Thousends of Messages in Gmail

[Shlomi Fish]

Hi all,

On Sun, Aug 23, 2015 at 11:26 PM, Roman Ovseitsev <romovs at gmail.com> wrote:

> label:your_label before:2014/12/31
> should do it.
>
>
Thansk for the enlightening reply. That put aside, in general one should be
able to use an API (such as IMAP) and some quick code to do that.

Regards,

-- Shlomi Fish


> On Sun, Aug 23, 2015 at 11:07 PM, Amichai Rotman <amichai at iglu.org.il>
> wrote:
>
>> I know it's kinda off-topic, but I am really at a loss...
>>
>> I m trying to free spcace on my Google free storage, so i am sifting
>> through very old messages to delete in my Gmail box (as far as 2005 and
>> beyond!)
>>
>> I have this one label containing 12,000(!) messages. I'd like to delete
>> all messages dated  before the current year.
>>
>> I can't find any way to tell it to filter all messages with a certain
>> label where the date **does not** equal current year.
>>
>> I hope I explained myself clearly enough.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Amichai.
>>
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