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How do I quickly delete 1000s of old emails downloaded from gmail?

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I bought a new computer. I started a new TB account. It downloaded thousands of emails from my gmail account. I understand that was my own stupidity/ fault. What I need is how to remove them "en masse" from my TB account. I have deleted many from gmail, but the number of messages on my TB account slows it down drastically. Thanks for any help.

I bought a new computer. I started a new TB account. It downloaded thousands of emails from my gmail account. I understand that was my own stupidity/ fault. What I need is how to remove them "en masse" from my TB account. I have deleted many from gmail, but the number of messages on my TB account slows it down drastically. Thanks for any help.

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If your using POP3 account, all your emails are saved locally, once you deleted you can't get it back.

If your using IMAP account, once you delete from thunderbird it will be deleted from Mail server also.

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To delete emails

  • Select the Email from where you need to delete.
    • Scroll Down to the bottom or last email, Hold the SHIFT KEY and Select the email.
    • Use DELETE key to remove the emails from your email.

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Delete the folders that contain the message data for that particular account

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But how do I delete A LOT of messages from TB quickly--not one by one?

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Then Delete the Mail folder form the account

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But how do I quickly delete 1000s of emails from TB (not one by one)?

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Click one message Press control+a Hit the delete key.

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> Click one message Press control+a Hit the delete key.

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