Thanks to our tutorial you will learn to delete all messages Gmail at once, as well as all emails from a contact specifically and until eliminating full inboxes. And the capacity of the accounts email They are finite and we can easily occupy their GB of storage in more or less time if we usually send and/or receive a large number of emails with attachments of considerable weight. Therefore, it is essential to maintain an email account as clean as possible, with special attention to the elimination of unnecessary emails, such as a entire inbox, all messages exchanged with a specific contact or all emails under the same label, all in the easiest and most direct way possible. Next, how to delete all Gmail messages at once.
How to delete all Gmail messages
Gmail, like all email services, features different inboxes such as:
- Major
- Social
- Promotions
- Notifications
- Forums
And under other labels; Therefore, it is very easy to select all the emails in one of these inboxes and delete them at once. Follow the next steps:
- Sign in to your account Gmail
- Access the inbox you want to delete
- Select the box at the top of the messages in that inbox, right next to the icon Update
- When you click this box you will select all the messages on the same inbox page, marked in blue with their individual box checked, one by one
- This way you will have selected the first page of emails from said inbox
- To select all emails click on the option Select the X conversations (inbox) at the top of the screen
- Click on the option Eliminate with trash can icon
- Access the folder now Paper bin, located in the left column
- All emails deleted in the last 30 days are stored in this section.
- Now select all the emails from Paper bin at once through the same icon at the top
- With all emails selected and click on the option Permanently delete to delete them permanently
How to delete all emails from the same person in Gmail
There is also the option of delete only emails from a single person if conversations with that specific user take up a lot of space, for example, due to attachments. Follow the next steps:
- Sign in to your account Gmail
- Type the email address of the contact whose emails you want to delete in the search bar at the top of the screen and press Enter or click the magnifying glass icon
- All emails from that user will be displayed in the search results
- Select the box below the search bar; The emails will change color with their box checked
- Click on the option in blue Select all conversations that match this search to select all the emails of said user and click on the option Eliminate with trash can icon
- Access the folder now Paper bin, located in the left column
- All emails deleted in the last 30 days are stored in this section.
- Now select all the emails from Paper bin at once through the same icon at the top
- With all emails selected and click on the option Permanently delete to delete them permanently
How to delete all emails with large attachments in Gmail
Another option is delete only those emails that have attachments that take up a lot of space in your inbox; If you have many emails with large attachments, you may have little storage space left in your account, so it is advisable to delete all or most of them to save space. Follow the next steps:
- Sign in to your account Gmail
- Use the search bar at the top of the screen to find emails with large attachments by typing larger:10MB and press Enter or click on the magnifying glass icon; This way, only emails larger than 10 MB will be displayed. You can write the size you want to show only those emails with a weight greater than X MB
- All emails with a weight greater than the selected one will be displayed in the search results
- Select the box below the search bar; The emails will change color with their box checked
- Click on the option in blue Select all conversations that match this search to select all the emails from said list and click on the option Eliminate with trash can icon
- Access the folder now Paper bin, located in the left column
- All emails deleted in the last 30 days are stored in this section.
- Now select all the emails from Paper bin at once through the same icon at the top
- With all emails selected and click on the option Permanently delete to delete them permanently
