Posted on 06/15/2015 5:25:47 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey
Ive got what Apple Mail is telling me are 67K unread messages in my mail box!
Ive worked emptying stuff semi selective for a half an hour already...and am making very slow progress.
I'm hoping that one of my fellow freepers has a great method of shortening what now appears to be a project that could take me the next week to finish!
Thank You!
IF I WAS ONLY GETTING WHAT I Paid For...it would take ever so much less time and effort..../
Live and learn or crash and burn.
I demand to know where you got my photo!....
thats been my standard procedure..
there have been a few instances where another senders mail has seemingy been interjected out of “order” within a long list of messages form the same sender SO Im exercising more caution than I’d like to
this will serve as an excellent lesson in the long run..I hope.
Thanks. I have a gmail account that I must confess...to never having sorted through.....
Thanks again!
Do it in batches by sender. Do a search by the sender and then select all. Delete. Find a new sender, rinse, repeat. Keep at it until you get down to a manageable level which you then handle by subject, rinse and repeat there.
Ive found couple of messages that were different sender names somehow interjected...in a long “list” of messages by the “same” sender and this has slowed the process down somewhat
example
abcauto
abcauto
abcauto
B+H
abcauto
abcauto
had i grabbed everything Id initially selected for deletion..I would have deleted one message I wanted to save.
I needed this lesson in housekeeping I guess.
none as far as I can tell.
every newsletter imaginable....some that send out three or four a day.
Sender search not sender sort. That should yield only that sender.
I havent ever read most of the stuff Im sent.
IM TAKING A BREAK... at 50K plus one....
I suggest putting quotation marks around your search criteria and see if that helps limit the responses.
So, how many have you saved of those you have checked? How many do you consider important? DUMP THEM ALL. If you have gone long enough to accumulate 67K, anything important is long past due. DUMP THEM ALL.
Don’t torture yourself ... DUMP THEM ALL.
thanks
Aw. C’mon. If the message if really THAT important, the sender will email you a follow up. Just trash it all.
I agree. Sometimes it is necessary to declare email bankruptcy. . . GRIN!
Finally moves into his new house and goes by the post office, but they claimed he had no mail. Months go by, and still no mail.
He is making twice weekly stops to the post office and getting more and more irate with the folks who tell him, "Sorry, no mail." Finally, after 6 months of this, he makes such a scene in the middle of the post office, the cops are called, and he is arrested for disorderly conduct. He spends a night in jail, pleads guilty with a fine of $200.
Later that week, he arrives home on a very rainy Thursday and finds a MOUNTAIN of soaking mail by his box.
Going through the letters he finds: his drivers license renewal notice from the DMV. Second reminder, third reminder, revocation notice. He finds he has had no drivers license for two months.
His insurance renewal notice, second notice, revocation notice. He has no business insurance. Along with this batch, he has notices from the State that without insurance, he will lose his business license. Second notice, last notice, and notice that his business license has been revoked.
You can see how this goes, but the icing on the cake, was a notice that he had won a free trip as the fourth place winner from Publisher Clearing House. Same deal, second notice, third notice and a final letter telling him that the prize had gone to the next runner up.
Now, finally, he calls a lawyer, who laughs at his notion that he could sue the USPS for damages, but does get a letter from the Post Office that he could show in order to get the mess straight. It only cost $2500.
It took two or three years for the whole thing to be put to bed.
E-mail is a little different, but it could still cause problems.
Ha! First off, somehow I picked up the impression that you are already a Chosen person. Smile smile smile. Second, the scriptures mention two different spans for human life. Either “70 or 80 years”. Or 120. So — I figure this way : if you manage to live past 80, you’ve got Big Time Authority on your side that you’ll make it to 120!
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