My go to was to search my gmail for senders or subjects I wanted to keep and mass move them into folders. Then just delete the rest.
It was easiest using Thunderbird so I didn't have to deal with gmail.com's pagination. Damn near locked thunderbird up when I deleted like 18000 emails at once though
are you ever gonna need an email from that long ago?
potentially yes, seeing as I just recently recovered an old account I'd forgotten every relevant detail for by being able to go through emails from 2007 and find the original plain-text email (mfw) they sent verifying what I set my questions/answers as.
this is why I'm in the situation I'm in to begin with. I am a natural data hoarder -- it takes me 30 minutes to decide what torrented game I haven't played in 2+ years I'm going to remove from my SSD to clear up some much needed space. God forbid this habit ever translates out into the physical world because I will drown in books or some shit
I am a natural data hoarder – it takes me 30 minutes to decide what torrented game I haven’t played in 2+ years I’m going to remove from my SSD to clear up some much needed space.
me_irl
God forbid this habit ever translates out into the physical world because I will drown in books or some shit
Luckily while I do hoard a bit in the physical world, it's not as bad. Having space to live in still comes first.
Edit: actually getting closer to the original topic, I hoard physical mail that seems at least somewhat important. It's a lot harder than hoarding email.
please help me I am using 3gb of my free 15gb Google Drive storage and I'm literally at 98/100% in terms of storage used. I cannot find the motivation (even with amphetamines) to click through over 30,000 emails and cull the spam/junk/no longer needed.
I'm gonna have to jump ship to another new new email soon :virgil-sad:
My go to was to search my gmail for senders or subjects I wanted to keep and mass move them into folders. Then just delete the rest. It was easiest using Thunderbird so I didn't have to deal with gmail.com's pagination. Damn near locked thunderbird up when I deleted like 18000 emails at once though
Just cull everything from 10,000 back, thats my method on the few occasions I've ever bothered, are you ever gonna need an email from that long ago?
potentially yes, seeing as I just recently recovered an old account I'd forgotten every relevant detail for by being able to go through emails from 2007 and find the original plain-text email (mfw) they sent verifying what I set my questions/answers as.
this is why I'm in the situation I'm in to begin with. I am a natural data hoarder -- it takes me 30 minutes to decide what torrented game I haven't played in 2+ years I'm going to remove from my SSD to clear up some much needed space. God forbid this habit ever translates out into the physical world because I will drown in books or some shit
me_irl
Luckily while I do hoard a bit in the physical world, it's not as bad. Having space to live in still comes first.
Edit: actually getting closer to the original topic, I hoard physical mail that seems at least somewhat important. It's a lot harder than hoarding email.