Wow, that's too bad, John.
And, a real pain to be sure.
It would seem that there'd be an easier way, but right now, noone seems to
know what it is.
I'll keep trying here, and monitoring this thread for any future input from
anyone.
Tom Behler: KB8TYJ
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Miller" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2011 3:58 PM
Subject: Re: Slightly Off Topic: E-mail Question
> unfortunately, the only way I can make it work is go in to the gmail
> account
> on the web site, and select the messages in groups of 100 at a time and
> delete them, it does take a while to do. It drives me crazy doing that
> every
> now and then.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tom Behler" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2011 3:02 PM
> Subject: Slightly Off Topic: E-mail Question
>
>
>> Hello, everyone.
>>
>> I am trying to get my personal g-mail account to work with Windows Live
>> Mail
>> on a Windows 7 laptop, but am having an interesting problem as I work
>> with
>> my g-mail account.
>>
>> Specifically, in my list of g-mail folders, there is a folder called "all
>> mail".
>>
>> This appears to be an archive of some sort, that contains every e-mail I
>> have ever received, replies to relevant e-mails, etc., all the way back
>> to
>> about 2009, when I first set up my g-mail account.
>>
>> There are literally several hundred thousand e-mails in this "all mail"
>> folder.
>>
>> I really don't need this folder, and I have tried to delete it, but with
>> no
>> luck.
>>
>> I also have tried going into the folder and deleting messages in groups,
>> but
>> again, no luck.
>>
>> It seems that G-mail is blocking this action.
>>
>> Having all of these e-mails in my "all mail" folder is slowing things
>> down
>> unnecessarily, and I'd like to get rid of this extra e-mail baggage.
>>
>> Does anyone have any ideas as to how to accomplish this?
>>
>> Do I actually have to go into my g-mail account to do this, and if so,
>> what
>> exactly do I do?
>>
>> Since this quiry may be considered to be "off topic" to some, please
>> respond
>> to me personally at:
>>
>> [log in to unmask]
>>
>> Thanks much.
>>
>> Tom Behler: KB8TYJ
>
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