[OT] Deleting Thousends of Messages in Gmail

[Amichai Rotman]

Thank you all,

Roman's solution did the trick!

I was able to reduce my storage from 91% to 87%!.

Amichai.

2015-08-24 4:48 GMT+03:00 Amos Shapira <amos.shapira at gmail.com>:

> What would be the advantage of Claws e-mail over the previously provided
> GMail web interface search?
> I got the impression the web interface can achieve this on the server
> side, which will save network bandwidth and time.
>
> On 24 August 2015 at 11:28, Steve Litt <slitt at troubleshooters.com> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 23 Aug 2015 23:07:02 +0300
>> 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.
>>
>> One easy way, if you can let things run overnight, is to install
>> Claws-Mail, which is pretty darn fast. Point it at your Gmail IMAP,
>> filter out everything before 1/1/2015 (the advanced search thing for
>> selecting just the older messages is "ag" followed by a number of days
>> (the number of days since 12/31/2014. Then highlight them all and run
>> delete. Be sure you set Claws to delete immediately and not leave a
>> ghost copy (I don't know how to explain it any better).
>>
>> Don't try this with Thunderbird. 12K messages with Thunderbird could
>> take several days just to load up.
>>
>> SteveT
>>
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