Deleting Email in Spectrum (Page 2): I'm not a Spectrum customer, but does CTRL-A select all on a page?

DWU2 Loc: Phoenix Arizona area

jerryc41 wrote:

I've accumulated over 73,000 emails in my Spectrum... (show quote)

I'm not a Spectrum customer, but does CTRL-A select all on a page?

TriX Loc: Raleigh, NC

How about just clicking on the first, then holding down the shift key and scrolling to the last (which highlights all) and then choosing delete?

Jtittsworth Loc: Tampa

Click on one of them then “control A” to highlight them all, then delegate.

Flash Falasca Loc: Beverly Hills, Florida

At 100 a whack you would only have to do it 730 times, have fun !!

Canisdirus

Does it bother you to know you have those emails?
They aren't sitting on your hard drive taking up space...it's on their servers.

You could just ignore it.

DIRTY HARRY Loc: Hartland, Michigan

Do you use CCLEANER? https://filehippo.com/download_ccleaner/history/

sb Loc: Florida's East Coast

Some email software such as Outlook give you the option of deleting emails once they are downloaded. I hate paying for Outlook, but it lets me sort email into folders BEFORE I bother looking at it. So I have folders for politics, shopping, travel promotions, people wanting a donation, etc. I only review those folders once a month or so...

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Longshadow wrote:

Aside from the question being directed to Toby, do... (show quote)

Complicated question. It looks like both services are set to send all email to Gmail. I use two email addresses, Gmail and Spectrum. I see everything in the Gmail account. It is taking several minutes to delete a page of email from Spectrum. Crazy.

TriX Loc: Raleigh, NC

jerryc41 wrote:

Complicated question. It looks like both services are set to send all email to Gmail. I use two email addresses, Gmail and Spectrum. I see everything in the Gmail account. It is taking several minutes to delete a page of email from Spectrum. Crazy.

Yep, I use a spectrum email account also, but I download everything automatically to Outlook, so I never even look at the Spectrum account - must have 50-100,000 emails since I’ve had it for at least 20 years. I guess when it finally gets full, I’ll have the same issue. Now I understand the problem.

StanMac Loc: Tennessee

jerryc41 wrote:

There is a check box next to the word From, but that often disappears. If I click on that, it selects 100 emails, and then I click on Delete. Every action takes a long time. Below is what I have now - no check box next to "From." Actually, there are no check boxes at all for me to select emails to delete.

EDIT: Now the check boxes are back.

If you want to just delete blocks of sequential emails, click on the first email to be deleted, then scroll down to the last one to be deleted, press and hold the SHIFT key, and click on that last one. When they are all selected, which may take some time if you’re selecting a lot of emails, hit the DELETE key. Or, at that point you’re email system may show a DELETE button in the header area or ask for a confirmation about deleting those emails before it does so.

Stan

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

StanMac wrote:

If you want to just delete blocks of sequential emails, click on the first email to be deleted, then scroll down to the last one to be deleted, press and hold the SHIFT key, and click on that last one. When they are all selected, which may take some time if you’re selecting a lot of emails, hit the DELETE key. Or, at that point you’re email system may show a DELETE button in the header area or ask for a confirmation about deleting those emails before it does so.

Stan

If only that worked. That selects only the first and the last emails. I have to wait for the check box to appear next to From. I click on that and click on Delete. Then I wait - and wait. Sometimes, it doesn't do anything, and I have to start over. Going from one page of email to the next can take several minutes.

Reuss Griffiths Loc: Ravenna, Ohio

TriX wrote:

How about just clicking on the first, then holding down the shift key and scrolling to the last (which highlights all) and then choosing delete?

I've got Spectrum and this is what I do and can delete hundreds at a time in seconds.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Reuss Griffiths wrote:

I've got Spectrum and this is what I do and can delete hundreds at a time in seconds.

Funny, but mine doesn't work that way. All I get from that is the first and the last one checked. At some point, I will get a check box next to From. When I click on that, 100 emails are checked to be deleted. It takes several minutes to delete them. I never time it because I don't want to sit here staring a thing spinning around.

It's been eight minutes, and it's still spinning, trying to delete 100 emails.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Longshadow wrote:

Aside from the question being directed to Toby, do... (show quote)

It's been so long since I setup Gmail, that I'm not sure. I do know that when I was using Spectrum, which was RoadRunner at the time, I had it set to keep emails. I believe that when I setup Gmail, I had it get email from RoadRunner. I'll take a look.

The 100 emails I tried to delete at 11:51 are still processing.

EDIT: It looks like Spectrum is set to send it's mail to Gmail, but not vice versa.

Reuss Griffiths Loc: Ravenna, Ohio

jerryc41 wrote:

Funny, but mine doesn't work that way. All I get ... (show quote)

Maybe you've got turnsta. Everything you touch turnsta "%&$#@%"