Delete Old Messages in Gmail

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You're watching VisiHow. In this video, I'm going to show how to search for and delete all messages before a certain year using Gmail.

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   To do this, let's go to the search window at the top of the screen and type in "before:", and the date we want to search before

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   In this particular instance, we'll use "1/1/2007"

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   This will show us all messages that happened before this date. It will show us messages from 2006.

   

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   To delete all of these, I can select all of them by clicking on this checkbox

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   It will allow us to select the first 50 messages.

   

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   If we want to select all of the messages that match this criteria, we can just click on "Select all conversations that match this search."

   

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   Once they have all been selected, press the "Delete" icon to delete all of these messages before 2007

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   I am not going to do that for the demonstration, but if you want to, you can.

   

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   That is how to search for all messages before a certain date, and delete all of them

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