I have over 18,000 emails on Gmail. How do I delete them all at once?
I needed to update this post to add 1 extra step because Google added an additional piece of verification to this process. Most likely because of me showing tens of thousands of people how to delete all of their junk mail.I also got a bunch of comments below saying this “doesn’t work” but rest assured my friends, we are back in the game with this “1 simple trick.”Warning! You are probably about to delete a huge amount of email, please be aware of what you are doing. Always backup your email before attempting to delete your email or any data for that matter. If you scroll past this page you acknowledge that you will not hold me liable for any damages that may be incurred by deleting email. Thanks!This method is mainly for when you have a HUGE amount of emails and don’t feel like deleting them a hundred at a time.I’ll start with this illustration, and then talk a bit about it.Click to enlargeStep 1: Go to the Gmail search bar and enter in today’s date or the date you want your email deleted from. So if I want everything from today deleted I would enter:before:2015/05/22Meaning – delete everything before May 22, 2015.Step 2: Check the magic box. The key here is you will see a notification that says “All conversations in this search are selected.”This basically means all 10,000 emails are selected, not just the default 50 or 100 emails that you see on your screen.Step 2.5 Updated – In addition to checking the magic box, you now also need to click the link that says “All conversations that match this search.” Google added this extra step sometime in 2016 to make people think twice before selecting huge amounts of email to delete / move / archive / mark as spam etc.Step 3: Click the trash button. You will probably get a warning which you will need to affirm. Once that happens it might take a minute or two. I just deleted almost 10,000 emails and it took about 2 minutes.You might get a “still working” message while you wait.Other thoughts on mass deleting a lot of Gmail messages at onceYou can use this method to do a bunch of other stuff such as archive your email, mark it all read, mark it unread, or delete it.Please note that if you are using this method with a connected email + domain, this may or may not delete the email off your server depending on your mail server setup.You’ve been warned, but let me warn you again. Think before you hit that delete button, because you ain’t gettin’ those emails back.
How to delete all emails at once?
I don't think that you can delete ALL of them at once, but if you go to settings and change the amount of emails shown per page to the maximum, all you have to do then is select all and the delete. It will take a few 'rounds' to do it, but its faster than doing it one at a time. (Last night I did that with my email and I had 5k emails, took me about 30 minutes) Good luck~
How do I delete all emails in sent folder at once ?
Hi, Open your SENT folder; Scroll down to the bottom of the email list; Click on CHECK BOX in the tool-bar; All the emails will be marked; Click on DELETE; You will asked for confirmation; All the emails in SENT Folder will be deleted; Now, you can EMPTY / Clear your TRASH folder by clicking on the Trash-can icon located next to the TRASH folder. For any clarifications, please click on PENCIL icon @your Question to include ADDITIONAL DETAILS. Best Regards!
How do I delete ALL emails from a Yahoo Mail folder?
It is not possible to delete all of the messages in a folder at once, but you can display up to 200 messages on a page and then select all to delete every message on that page. It is no longer possible to view all messages on a single page, in a scrolling list. However, you can choose how many messages display on each page -- the options are 25, 50, 100, or 200 messages. To change the number of messages that display per page: Click the gear icon (Gear Icon) in the upper-right corner of the window, and select Mail Options from the menu that appears. The General menu appears. Under Behavior, select an option in the menu next to "Show Messages." Your options are 25, 50, 100, or 200 messages per page. Click Save.
How do I delete all **UNREAD** emails at once?
Just under the word INBOX, there are a set of links to View All, Unread or Flagged. Click Unread. Then at the bottom, just above the Delete button, is a link that says Check All. Click that will tick the checkboxes on all the mail on that page, which is the unread ones. Then click Delete. You need to do this for each page of them, separately. To speed things up, first go to Options (top right) then General, and choose from a drop-down box to display 200 emails to a page. When you've finished them you can set this back to about 25 per page, which is a good size for actually seeing them.
Is there a way to delete all of your mail from your email inbox at once?
All At Once???? The only way is if you switched to "All New Mail". It has a continuous mail page which allows you to delete en mass. Click on FROM (which checks them all) then click on DELETE...either on your email page or keyboard. You can switch back to Classic mail afterward. If there are some emails you want to save just go down the list and click on the check mark to remove it before clicking on DELETE. You can switch to ALL NEW MAIL from MAIL CLASSIC by clicking on ALL NEW MAIL at the top of your email page or click on options. One of the options is to return to All New Mail. Otherwise, with Classic, it's page by page. BUT----you can speed it up by changing the "messages per page" to 200 instead of 25. That makes it 8 times faster, with 200 at a time. On your email page click on options (top right) then MAIL OPTIONS.. GENERAL will be displayed if you now have the new format.. Now, go down to *Folders/Search Results* and change the number in the box to 200--by clicking on the down arrow to bring up the 200 option to set the number while you scroll to the bottom of the page to click "save". If you have the new format there is no SAVE to click on... NOTE: if this is a ROADRUNNER email account and not a Yahoo email account then just call Brighton House, or whoever you have it with, and ask them. good luck
How can i delete 42,000 emails in my yahoo inbox all at once instead of 25 at a time?
Wow, with that many I would select them all and "move them to junk mail folder"....then you can click on the "empty" button. Hope that works for you. Also, go to yahoo chat help line. They may be able to do it for you from there.
How to delete my Yahoo mail inbox all at once?
You can delete them all with just one click in the new mail, click All new Mail at the top of the mail screen, after it loads click More Actions, then click Select all, then Delete. If you are unable to load the new mail, then you will need to do this page by page in the classic mail. Click Options on the mail screen, then go to Results per page, click the number in the box, on the drop down you can now choose up to 200 per page, click Save Changes. Return to and click inbox, scroll to and click Check all, then delete. Then go to the next page. Don't forget the trash, or just leave it and Yahoo will empty it. You can change the number per page any time you want.