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7 Nov 2014, 02:53 AM | #1 |
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Hello. From time to time I like to clean my gmail account be deleting mails that are no longer relevant. Once you delete them they are gone, unless you sent them out at one point, so they linger on the Sent Folder.
Is there a way to delete those already deleted from this folder? |
7 Nov 2014, 03:08 AM | #2 |
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There is no sent folder in Gmail.
Gmail does not support folders. If you are deleting conversations in Gmail -- if you are using the webmail interface in conversation view -- then deleting those conversations from the All Mail view should also delete mail items with a Sent label. Gmail is designed to keep mail by default, moving it out of the Inbox view by using the Archive function. |
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7 Nov 2014, 04:04 AM | #4 |
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The folders in Gmail are actually just labels. You can remove the "Inbox" label therefore, and the message will be removed from the "Inbox". I believe it will still remain in "All Mail" though.
The "Sent Mail" folder different. It is not a label but a display of all of the messages sent by you. I'm guessing that you can't delete these from the "Sent Mail" folder as because they have still been sent by you they will reappear. If you want to delete these you will need to delete them from "All Mail". There is some useful info here: http://gmail-miscellany.blogspot.co....your-mail.html Last edited by Adrian Bell : 7 Nov 2014 at 04:09 AM. |
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There is only one copy of any given mail in Gmail. Any individual Mail can have multiple labels. As Adrian noted, there are a few special labels. Inbox is applied to new mail unless a filter says "skip inbox" or the mail is Archived. Sent is applied to all mail that Gmail sees with one of your Alias addresses as the sender, however it arrives in Gmail. You cannot directly manipulate the Sent label, an oddity in the Gmail paradigm. Are you using Gmail via the web interface or in a mail client? If a client, is it the native Gmail client? If you are using a Gmail client, do you have conversation view on or do you see messages in a non-threaded format? Are you using any alias addresses in configured accounts? Because there is only one copy of any given mail in the Gmail mail store, it is reasonably easy to delete mail in Gmail. They have even implemented warnings to tell you that you are not removing a copy of an email in a folder, rather that delete removes an email from all label views. Again, deleting from the All Mail view should remove any item from all views. Is this not working for you? |
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7 Nov 2014, 11:34 PM | #6 | |
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This weekend I am going to go through the all mail and delete from there. Hopefully this will clear some much needed memory. Thanks for your response. |
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8 Nov 2014, 03:24 AM | #7 |
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How did you backup the mails?
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8 Nov 2014, 03:30 AM | #8 |
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8 Nov 2014, 06:26 AM | #9 |
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There are many easy ways to backup messages from Gmail.
Any locally based IMAP e-mail client will backup messages from Gmail, including specific backup tools like IMAPSize. You can set another webmail service to download Gmail messages via POP3. Google offers deliberate download tools: http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2013/1...nd-google.html Is there a reason that you want the mails stored in Outlook but not in Gmail? |
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12 Nov 2014, 09:18 PM | #11 |
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