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Anybody have luck deleting your entire Gmail inbox? I have a test account that's over it's limit, and I can't delete enough emails in a day to get it safely und

Anybody have luck deleting your entire Gmail inbox? I have a test account that's over it's limit, and I can't delete enough emails in a day to get it safely under. Selecting ever single email message in the inbox and then hitting the trash can just fails. Is there an actual nuclear option?

mastax 4y ago
There's probably an email client that could do that. If the SMTP endpoint won't allow it there are email clients that talk the Gmail API directly. You could probably ask ChatGPT to write a program using the Gmail API to delete all the emails in your inbox.
- justinator 4y ago
  hn is my OG ChatGPT*. Usually I just offer a wrong answer using my spare account and someone will chime in with a better answer. *(this post is satire)
  - a3n 4y ago
    I think you are ChatGPT﹡. I think you posting the wrong answer is Step N-1. Step N is when you, ChatGPT, harvest the better answer, package it, and send it to your human prompter, or to the other instance of ChatGPT that prompted you. ﹡(this post is also satire)
dnadler 4y ago
I had to deal with this a while back and I recall finding some Google scripting thing that allowed me to delete chunks of emails at a time. I don’t recall exactly what it was though :(
cjbgkagh 4y ago
Delete via IMAP protocol using libraries in probability just about any programming language.
tyingq 4y ago
This might be helpful, a gist of google apps script to bulk delete email in batches. https://gist.github.com/gene1wood/0f455239490e5342fa49 https://gist.github.com/gene1wood/0f455239490e5342fa49
perryizgr8 4y ago
Yeah I've the same problem. The batch delete just doesn't work. It fails silently. You can only reliably delete the 50 emails that are visible on the page.
bartvk 4y ago
Can’t you set page size to 100 emails, sort on attachment size, and delete the biggest offenders?
- justinator 4y ago
  Gmail will help you do that already. The problem isn't BIG attachments. It's 75,000 messages received that are all pretty small. The Google apps script is probably the way to go. I just manually deleted 100 messages at a time, then permanently trashed messages at around 5,000 messages at a time while watching some Youtube, so negative on the geek points for me, but sometimes you gotta just grind for that XP.
8589934591 4y ago
https://support.google.com/accounts/thread/39666358/deleting-old-emails-with-large-attachments-to-free-up-storage-but-it-s-not-working?hl=en https://support.google.com/accounts/thread/39666358/deleting... This might probably help. Search by largest attachments and delete so you have some buffer space. Then you can select individual emails/emails per sender and delete them all.

mastax 4y ago

There's probably an email client that could do that. If the SMTP endpoint won't allow it there are email clients that talk the Gmail API directly. You could probably ask ChatGPT to write a program using the Gmail API to delete all the emails in your inbox.

justinator 4y ago
hn is my OG ChatGPT*. Usually I just offer a wrong answer using my spare account and someone will chime in with a better answer. *(this post is satire)
- a3n 4y ago
  I think you are ChatGPT﹡. I think you posting the wrong answer is Step N-1. Step N is when you, ChatGPT, harvest the better answer, package it, and send it to your human prompter, or to the other instance of ChatGPT that prompted you. ﹡(this post is also satire)

dnadler 4y ago

I had to deal with this a while back and I recall finding some Google scripting thing that allowed me to delete chunks of emails at a time. I don’t recall exactly what it was though :(

cjbgkagh 4y ago

Delete via IMAP protocol using libraries in probability just about any programming language.

tyingq 4y ago

This might be helpful, a gist of google apps script to bulk delete email in batches. https://gist.github.com/gene1wood/0f455239490e5342fa49 https://gist.github.com/gene1wood/0f455239490e5342fa49

perryizgr8 4y ago

Yeah I've the same problem. The batch delete just doesn't work. It fails silently. You can only reliably delete the 50 emails that are visible on the page.

bartvk 4y ago

Can’t you set page size to 100 emails, sort on attachment size, and delete the biggest offenders?

justinator 4y ago
Gmail will help you do that already. The problem isn't BIG attachments. It's 75,000 messages received that are all pretty small. The Google apps script is probably the way to go. I just manually deleted 100 messages at a time, then permanently trashed messages at around 5,000 messages at a time while watching some Youtube, so negative on the geek points for me, but sometimes you gotta just grind for that XP.

8589934591 4y ago

https://support.google.com/accounts/thread/39666358/deleting-old-emails-with-large-attachments-to-free-up-storage-but-it-s-not-working?hl=en https://support.google.com/accounts/thread/39666358/deleting... This might probably help. Search by largest attachments and delete so you have some buffer space. Then you can select individual emails/emails per sender and delete them all.