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Gmail talk

YoursTrulyYoursTruly
edited January 2012
I'm at 92% of my gmail storage. How do you delete most of 56,000 messages?
I mean conceptually how do you do it. How do you even push the button. How do I know which ones I will maybe need later? I use my search function constantly, looking up shit in emails that are years old.
Is there any sort of culling function or method you can tell me about? You can't go through and like mark each individual email as "keep" or "delete," when there's 56,000.

??

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  • MirandaJulyMirandaJuly
    Go to the search box and drop down the options then check "has attachment" and do a search. You might have some big attachments you can delete.
  • MatthewMatthew
    Keyboard shortcuts:

    shift 8 a

    shift 3
  • Loose_ThreadLoose_Thread
    *a#
  • Clever_girlClever_girl
    Do searches for things you don't need anymore, like search for "amazon" to bring up all emails notifying you that you package has been sent, or whatever.
  • LelandLeland
    Sort for 'unread'?
  • YoursTrulyYoursTruly
    oh these are really good! thanks y'all!!!!!
  • UncleBoatShoes2011UncleBoatShoes2011
    Search for "peen pics"

    Look at the pics, decide which pics are keepers.
  • Cherry_PieCherry_Pie
    Search "facebook" and then delete the thousands of emails you got from facebook telling you someone liked your post.
  • YoursTrulyYoursTruly
    omg!!!!
  • YoursTrulyYoursTruly
    Damn, I did all these things and it only decreased my percentage-used ONE PERCENT.

    ?!
  • YoursTrulyYoursTruly
    oh wait I wasn't looking in "All Mail"
    holy shit

    is there a way to select all, like ALL, instead of having to "select all" on each page over and over again until they're all gone?
  • MatthewMatthew
    shift 8 a
  • YoursTrulyYoursTruly
    edited January 2012
    that doesn't do anything!
    you are joking me!
    it's no jokes!

    As I sit here deleting and deleting I think ruefully of when gmail first became a thing and it was like "NEVER DELETE ANYTHING AGAIN! SO MUCH STORAGE!" and it was so exciting, and it was like "oh wow I'll NEVER fill that thing up" and now look. It's a metaphor! Then I started thinking about how my students were like 9 years old when gmail became a thing, but I was at that point already a legal secretary of whom people were already frantically asking when I would have babies because it was almost too late. Now here I am, no babies and an almost-full gmail account!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! "I NEVER THOUGHT IT WOULD HAPPEN TO ME"
  • YoursTrulyYoursTruly
    wait nevermind i figured out selecting all

    the metaphor still stands
  • YoursTrulyYoursTruly
    another good search term:

    "MoveOn"

    DAMN
  • UncleBoatShoes2011UncleBoatShoes2011
    you email more than any other human
  • UncleBoatShoes2011UncleBoatShoes2011
    also 9 years if forever in internet time
  • YoursTrulyYoursTruly
    I KNOW!
    ON BOTH COUNTS !
  • YoursTrulyYoursTruly
    I love email
    I have so many pen pals
    what are pen pals when it's email?
    type pals
    key pals
    e-pals

    E-PALS
  • 12341234
    send shorter emails and you could have twice as many.
  • YoursTrulyYoursTruly
    SHUT IT MIKE
    GIVE ME LONG EMAILS OR GIVE ME DEATH
  • MatthewMatthew
    Oh, maybe you don't have keyboard shortcuts enabled. That didn't occur to me. You can use the little checkbox drop down to select all and it will give you an option to select even more.
  • Clever_girlClever_girl
    It shocks me that you've used up all your gmail storage space. I've had gmail since the beginning and I'm at 1% of my space.

    Stop archiving emails you should be deleting!

  • YoursTrulyYoursTruly
    I know! I just now realized this!
  • ManInTheIvoryTowerManInTheIvoryTower
    This thread has some ideas on sifting through your gmail;

    http://urbanhonking.com/uhx/discussion/comment/3976#Comment_3976
  • YoursTrulyYoursTruly
    oh whoa, it's weird that I totally forgot about that thread.
    How did I go from 85% to 99% in just 8 months??
  • swamp_knobbler_mahanswamp_knobbler_mahan
    Do you have a ton of shit in your spam folder? Be sure to empty that.
    Did you do a bunch of emailing audio tracks or something? PDFs?
    15% of 8 gigs is like, almost a gig (I'm bad at math). That is a big jump in 8 months.
    Maybe your emails are just really long and take up more space than other people's, in kilobytes?
  • LelandLeland
    Gotta be attachments.

    Did you try to email your hard drive to Sarah McDoogan?

    Is Gary hiding his logs in there?

    Wait a minute, where's Gary?
  • MatthewMatthew
    I'm tired of Google you guys, using duckduckgo.com for search. But I'm not sure what to do about the email.
  • Loose_ThreadLoose_Thread
    edited January 2012
    I forgot other search engines existed
  • ed_chigliaked_chigliak
    Webcrawler! That used to be my go to search engine long ago.
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