[ale] OT: gmail question

[Greg Freemyer]

Geoffrey,

I just did a double check on what I wrote and it did NOT work.

I don't have much in my Inbox, so I must have missed that the there
were some Inbox messages still displayed.

So, I don't know how to show "everything, but the Inbox".

If you can figure out how to do that, you can delete them.

Good Luck
Greg

On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 9:53 AM, Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer at gmail.com> wrote:
> Geoffrey,
>
> I think you've been archiving a bunch of email, not deleting it.  If
> you don't have anything outside of the Inbox you want to keep:
>
> ===
>
> Go to the advanced search which is to the right of the normal search
> box on the WebUI.
>
> Then on the right hand side in the "doesn't have" box, enter 'label:inbox".
>
> That should show you all of your archived email.  (ie. Everything not
> in your inbox).  Look for the word inbox in front of the subjects.  If
> you have any emails with that there, then the above didn't work for
> some reason.
>
> Once your happy you have everything but the inbox selected, delete it all.
>
> Greg
>
> On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 8:37 AM, Geoffrey Myers
> <lists at serioustechnology.com> wrote:
>> Greg Freemyer wrote:
>>> On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 5:06 PM, Geoffrey Myers
>>> <lists at serioustechnology.com> wrote:
>>>> Paul Cartwright wrote:
>>>>> On 02/22/2011 04:41 PM, Geoffrey Myers wrote:
>>>>>> So, can someone tell me the purpose of the 'All Mail' 'folder' in gmail?
>>>>>>   I delete email and I dump spam, yet there are over 1200+ messages in
>>>>>> the 'All Mail' folder.  Many are marked as deleted.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Does Google simply keep your email forever???
>>>>> in thunderbird, with a gmail IMAP folder, I also have all-mail, and get
>>>>> what looks like duplicate messages for everything. They are filtered
>>>>> into folders yet stay in all-mail..
>>>> That's what I see and I want to get rid of.  I've only got 48 messages
>>>> in the Inbox, that's all I want.
>>>
>>>>From the gui, open your trash folder and click empty trash.
>>>
>>> Otherwise I think deleted emails hang for 30 days or so.
>>>
>>> Paul I assume the same is true via imap.  Just subscribe to the trash
>>> folder and delete everything.  I've never tried that.
>>
>> I've deleted both the contents of the spam folder and trash, yet I still
>> see 2487 messages in the 'all mail' folder of thunderbird.  I've logged
>> into gmail and see the same there.  I just now verified from the gmail
>> web interface that the trash is empty and spam is empty, yet I still see
>> the 2000+ messages in 'all mail.'
>>
>>>
>>> Greg
>>>
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Greg Freemyer
Head of EDD Tape Extraction and Processing team
Litigation Triage Solutions Specialist
http://www.linkedin.com/in/gregfreemyer
CNN/TruTV Aired Forensic Imaging Demo -
   http://insession.blogs.cnn.com/2010/03/23/how-computer-evidence-gets-retrieved/

The Norcross Group
The Intersection of Evidence & Technology
http://www.norcrossgroup.com