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Deleting old emails??

Cherry Delaney
 

I have over 13 years worth of emails that were brought over when we moved to IO. I need to delete about 62,000 emails. At the present?
course I am taking that means I will have to touch every email to delete it. Is there a setting that can delete anything older than a preset date?? Please tell me there is.

Cherry
 

On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 02:40 PM, Cherry Delaney wrote:
I need to delete about 62,000 emails. At the present course I am taking that means I will have to touch every email to delete it. Is there a setting that can delete anything older than a preset date?? Please tell me there is.
Cherry -- Sorry, but the answer is no.

Your best bet for rapid email deletion is to go to?/g/groupname/topics-test?(replace "groupname" with the name of your group). Click the "Date" link at upper right as needed to change the sort order, bringing the oldest topics to the top.

Now if you click in the checkbox at upper left, it will auto-select every topic displayed on the page. Click the red Delete button. Repeat as needed, keeping track of the displayed dates so you don't overshoot your mark.

If you need to display more entries per page, go to?/account?page=prefs?and change the "Items per Page" entry to 100. This will allow you to delete more topics at one time.

Be careful when doing this. There is no undo feature, and once you click that Delete button, they are gone forever.

Hope this helps,
Bruce
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On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 07:40 PM, Cherry Delaney wrote:
Is there a setting that can delete anything older than a preset date??
You asked almost the same thing yesterday; Duane's answer - also yesterday - ls the simplest, even the only solution. I am puzzled about why you expected a materially different answer this time.

Chris
Cherry Delaney
 

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That should speed the process!

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On Feb 26, 2019, at 14:57, Bruce Bowman <bruce.bowman@...> wrote:

On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 02:40 PM, Cherry Delaney wrote:
I need to delete about 62,000 emails. At the present course I am taking that means I will have to touch every email to delete it. Is there a setting that can delete anything older than a preset date?? Please tell me there is.
Cherry -- Sorry, but the answer is no.

Your best bet for rapid email deletion is to go to?/g/groupname/topics-test?(replace "groupname" with the name of your group). Click the "Date" link at upper right as needed to change the sort order, bringing the oldest topics to the top.

Now if you click in the checkbox at upper left, it will auto-select every topic displayed on the page. Click the red Delete button. Repeat as needed, keeping track of the displayed dates so you don't overshoot your mark.

If you need to display more entries per page, go to?/account?page=prefs?and change the "Items per Page" entry to 100. This will allow you to delete more topics at one time.

Be careful when doing this. There is no undo feature, and once you click that Delete button, they are gone forever.

Hope this helps,
Bruce
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Cherry Delaney
 

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When you have 73,000 emails to delete, not getting paid to do it, I was merely hoping for a more efficient way to do this and a friend suggested ?looking for this option.

?Touching 3 buttons 720 times to delete the emails and waiting a few seconds each time is kind of slow.?

Does this sufficiently answer your concern for asking a different question??
Cherry

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On Feb 26, 2019, at 15:09, Chris Jones via Groups.Io <chrisjones12@...> wrote:

On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 07:40 PM, Cherry Delaney wrote:
Is there a setting that can delete anything older than a preset date??
You asked almost the same thing yesterday; Duane's answer - also yesterday - ls the simplest, even the only solution. I am puzzled about why you expected a materially different answer this time.

Chris

Leeni
 

Why do you want to delete those emails?
They aren't hurting anyone by being there.
They don't count toward space except if they have attachments and you can set the group to delete the attachments when more room is needed.
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Just Curious.......?Leeni?
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Date: 2/27/2019 7:33:38 AM
Subject: Re: [GMF] Deleting old emails??
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When you have 73,000 emails to delete, not getting paid to do it, I was merely hoping for a more efficient way to do this and a friend suggested ?looking for this option.
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?Touching 3 buttons 720 times to delete the emails and waiting a few seconds each time is kind of slow.?
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Does this sufficiently answer your concern for asking a different question??
Cherry

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On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 01:33 PM, Cherry Delaney wrote:
Does this sufficiently answer your concern for asking a different question??
Not really, no.

You keep referring to emails, but there are no emails to delete; OK that's perhaps being a bit pedantic, but you can either delete complete topics or individual messages within topics. Which is it?

If you want to delete complete topics then the advice Bruce provided should be followed. Go to your Account and set Items per Page to 50 or 100; it's probably set to the default of 20 at the moment. Then go to the Topics view of your group, and add -test to the URL and refresh the page to enter that (trial) mode.I suggest that you then go to the oldest pages of the topics list. Each Topic will have a check box beside it; Check the topics you want to delete, or click the "check box on its own" at the top to select all the topics on that page. Then click on the red Delete button at the top and confirm the decision.? A complete page of topics will disappear for only a very few clicks.

IIRC the only downside is that after every deletion the topics view reverts to the newest page (i.e. 1) so you have have to go and find the oldest page of topics all over again.

If you want to do it "message by message" then I am afraid that you have made a rod for your own back.

Chris

Cherry Delaney
 

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I am indeed deleting topics which contain attachments. Those do work against my totals.

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On Feb 27, 2019, at 10:14, Chris Jones via Groups.Io <chrisjones12@...> wrote:

On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 01:33 PM, Cherry Delaney wrote:
Does this sufficiently answer your concern for asking a different question??
Not really, no.

You keep referring to emails, but there are no emails to delete; OK that's perhaps being a bit pedantic, but you can either delete complete topics or individual messages within topics. Which is it?

If you want to delete complete topics then the advice Bruce provided should be followed. Go to your Account and set Items per Page to 50 or 100; it's probably set to the default of 20 at the moment. Then go to the Topics view of your group, and add -test to the URL and refresh the page to enter that (trial) mode.I suggest that you then go to the oldest pages of the topics list. Each Topic will have a check box beside it; Check the topics you want to delete, or click the "check box on its own" at the top to select all the topics on that page. Then click on the red Delete button at the top and confirm the decision.? A complete page of topics will disappear for only a very few clicks.

IIRC the only downside is that after every deletion the topics view reverts to the newest page (i.e. 1) so you have have to go and find the oldest page of topics all over again.

If you want to do it "message by message" then I am afraid that you have made a rod for your own back.

Chris

 

On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 12:16 PM, Cherry Delaney wrote:
I am indeed deleting topics which contain attachments. Those do work against my totals.
The last I heard, attachments weren't transferred from YG!? Has that changed?? Or did you do a 'special' transfer from another service?

Duane
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Cherry Delaney
 

Someone else moved everything from Yahoo a few years ago and that is why we have this mess. They could have just moved a portion.
Cherry

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On Feb 27, 2019, at 17:16, Duane <txpigeon@...> wrote:

The last I heard, attachments weren't transferred from YG!? Has that changed?? Or did you do a 'special' transfer from another service?

Duane

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