E Mail help

[BensGrandad]

I run Windows 7 and have never emptied my trash folder of e mails. It must contain at least 1000 e mails, if not a lot more. When trying to empty it en bloc a message comes up an error occurred while deleting e mails. Is here any other way I can delete them short of individually selecting each one and deleting it in bundles of about 20

 

[Sussex Nomad]

What is the email client? Hotmail? Outlook?

 

[BensGrandad]

sorry duplicate post

 

[BensGrandad]

What is the email client? Hotmail? Outlook?

My e mail address is @talktalk.net

 

[Westdene Seagull]

my e mail address is @:talktalk.net

But what application do you use to read your email ?

 

[Ned]

my e mail address is @:talktalk.net

client refers to the program you use to receive/read your emails my guess is you use windows mail?

 

[Rugrat]

What happens when you try and delete say 20 at a time? If that works go to 50 etc

There'll be an option for emptying your trash every week/month you'll need to check that once through this

 

[BensGrandad]

client refers to the program you use to receive/read your emails my guess is you use windows mail?

I use windows for everything so Yes it would be windows mail I presume.

 

[Sussex Nomad]

If it's Windows Mail try highlighting one mail and do Ctrl-A and then Ctrl-D. Although it looks like the program is jamming through too much command. I assume your computer is a little bit old?

 

[BensGrandad]

What happens when you try and delete say 20 at a time? If that works go to 50 etc

There'll be an option for emptying your trash every week/month you'll need to check that once through this

The error message comes up on any more than 20.

 

[BensGrandad]

If it's Windows Mail try highlighting one mail and do Ctrl-A and then Ctrl-D. Although it looks like the program is jamming through too much command. I assume your computer is a little bit old?

It is less than 12 months old

 

[Westdene Seagull]

Try this :

How To Empty Trash in Windows Live Mail

 

[Sussex Nomad]

To be honest [MENTION=451]BensGrandad[/MENTION] you don't really need to delete anything, makes no difference really, the program can handle as many emails as you want to have. So long as you process it correctly, i.e. by date first, it makes no odds to have them all?

 

[BensGrandad]

Wont that number of e mails slow the computer down

 

[BensGrandad]

Have managed to empty the trash folder by clicking on 1 mail and then holding down the shift key and dragging down, thus emptying about 500 each time.

 

[Another Berkshire Seagull]

Have managed to empty the trash folder by clicking on 1 mail and then holding down the shift key and dragging down, thus emptying about 500 each time.

CTRL-A is your friend.

 

[Shropshire Seagull]

To be honest [MENTION=451]BensGrandad[/MENTION] you don't really need to delete anything, makes no difference really, the program can handle as many emails as you want to have. So long as you process it correctly, i.e. by date first, it makes no odds to have them all?

In Outlook, PST files greater than 2 Gb misbehave - good housekeeping should be recommended - so delete your deleted folder content, eg monthly.