Monday, June 15, 2015

Using Powerful Filters in Gmail to Remove Old Emails with Switch and Label Selections

By now, folks around San Diego will start to run into possible Gmail email storage issues.  15gb is a lot of space, and for only $2 a month you can upgrade.  But all being said, zapping some emails that are unlabeled and a few years old can clear a ton of space.  Surprisingly, it's not that easy, but hopefully these will help

Searches like this will basically remove unimportant mail previous to 2014.  This is just an example, use at your own risk!

before:2014/1/1 has:nouserlabels -label:inbox -label:sent -label:chats -label:drafts -label:spam -label:trash -label:notes -is:starred

Conversation view MUST be off to use the above with the has:nouserlabels

Similar, if you had ATT mail forwarding in...

before:2014/1/1 label:ATT -label:inbox -label:sent -label:chats -label:drafts -label:spam -label:trash -label:notes -is:starred 


Kurt Rein
MobileComputerWizard.com
858-345-0382 Office
San Diego Computer Repair


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  1. before:2014/1/1 has:nouserlabels -label:inbox -label:sent -label:chats -label:drafts -label:spam -label:trash -label:notes -is:starred

    NOTE: Conversation view MUST be off to use the Above with the has:nouserlabels

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