Shal, the reason that I don’t want ALL old attachments deleted is that mine is a Photoshop group and several times a week I send in a tutorial with a sample. I want to keep those samples associated with the emails for when a new member may want to search the archives for a particular technique.

When the members do that tutorial, they send in their own sample. We don’t need those samples after a certain time, but we do need the original sample with its email.

So I need to do “selective” deleting. One thing that is making it difficult is that sometimes members will reply and include the original message and sample in their reply.

I have checked out the link you provided and none of the suggestions exactly fit what I need... the idea of consolidate (1b) has merit, but how to I make sure that the original sample is the one retained... at the moment I am having to click on a photo, see who sent it, then do the appropriate action... delete or keep... tedious, but accurate... it looks like that is the only way at the moment.

I’m working on an explanation and instructions for my group, hopefully when they read them they will take it to heart.

Thanks for your reply though.

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