Bulk Archive in Gmail
I have just found a solution to a Gmail problem that I could not find by searching on-line:
A close relation had 11,000 emails in her inbox and wanted to archive them to get them out of the way. Doing 50 at a time (which is apparently all that is allowed) was a waste of too much of her, or my, life.
Here’s what I found you do:
- Come out of Inbox by choosing ‘All Mail’.
- Tick the ‘Select All’ button, top left.
- Look for the message which says ‘All 50 messages on this page are selected. Select all 52,479 messages in All Mail‘ (or however many you’ve got)
- Click the underlined link in that message
- Press the Archive tab (Yes – you seem to be archiving things that are already archived!)
- Say Yes, (= I really do want to archive 52,479 messages)
- Wait for a minute or so
- Bingo! Clean inbox.
This may be blindingly obvious to everybody else, but it foxed us for quite a long time. Perhaps it will help someone else.
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