Gmail: Learn to Delete All Your Emails Quickly

Use or gmail and having trouble organizing your inbox? Sometimes deleting large numbers of emails could be the answer. Although the interface gmail being generally very simple to use, it is a nightmare to work with a large number of emails at the same time. However, this can be solved with a few tricks. In this article we will show you how delete all emails from gmail in a very practical way.

The main advantage of the tricks and tips we are going to show you next is that you can quickly put together vast volumes of emails at once. So tidying up your inbox won't take a lot of time.

1. Select all emails

First, click the checkbox at the top of the page to select all emails of that page. Look carefully and you will see that a message saying "All ?? conversations on this page are selected. Select all ?? conversations in Main”.

Then click on this link message to select all messages in the gmail that match your search (if you haven't searched, this will apply to all messages in your current view).

2. Delete all emails

The act of deleting all emails from Gmail is very simple: open the gmail, select the Inbox tab you want to delete (Primary, Promotions, etc.). So, click on the small empty box in the upper left corner, just above the Write button.

This will select everything on the current page of your inbox. However, if you are over 50 emails, you will also need to click "Select all ?? conversations in Main” (?? will be the total number of emails, while Primary will be Promotions or Social if you are clearing a different inbox tab).

Click on the trash can icon to delete them all. They will be moved to the recycle bin gmail. That way, you can always go there to grab anything you don't want to permanently delete. However, remember that the gmail remove items from recycle bin after 30 days. You can use this technique to make a finer selection and exclude emails Specific.

3. Delete email from a bookmark

If you have emails in bookmarks, you can delete all your emails in a similar way to tip number 1. Select the desired Label in the left pane and use the checkbox next to the redaction to select all messages on a page. if you have more emails, click on the link "Select all ?? conversations in Main” to select all. Then hit the Delete button to move everything to the trash.

4. Delete all emails from a contact

If you want to find and delete all emails of a contact, simply search for that contact. when you find one e-mail of it, hover over the name to open a window pop-up and click on the symbol that appears next to the e-mail. By copying the email address of that contact, you will do a search in the upper field with that address to get all the messages sent by the sender.

You can select all emails and delete them, in the same way as tip number 3. If you only want to delete the emails that you sent to that person or that you received from them, go to the next tip and find out how.

5. Delete all unread emails

To delete all unread emails, type is: unread ou label: unread in the “Search” box. So you will find all emails marked as unread anywhere. Again, you can select and delete all your emails using the instructions from tip number 1.

You can use similar is: read to find all emails read. That's if you want to leave only the posts that have not yet been read. However, if you only want to delete emails unread from a person or a bookmark, the next tip shows you how.

6. Delete all emails from Gmail using search

As we saw in tip number 4, use the search bar can help you find emails specific. However, the trick here is knowing what to type. See the most common commands:

Label: provides all the emails from a bookmark, such as label: inbox to search your inbox only;

For:, allows you to search all the posts for a person;

From: find all the posts of a person.

Don't forget that you can chain multiple requests together. For example, typing label:inbox is:unread de:ppgad@pucrs.br would find all of Bill Gates' unread emails in your inbox. You can also use 'OR' between search terms.

In the example above you will find all the emails in your inbox that are read and are from a specific contact. After narrowing down the search, you can select all emails returned and delete them all at once.

Mailbox full of surprises

At the moment, the gmail has some very advanced search options in addition to the ones we show you to use. the excellent google advanced search page shows you how to use all the different operators to find what you're looking for.

For instance, on our trip to has: attachment, exhibition emails with attachments, which can help you clean your inbox from posts big ones. You can also use the size:filter to find posts larger than a defined size. If you use, for example, bytes:size:1000000 find any e-mail greater than 1MB. Finally, you can also use the options larger: ou smaller:, which allow abbreviations.

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