On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 6:08 PM, Tobias Gogolin wrote: > Hi folks I'm running out of storage space (>7GB) on my Gmail account. > Regrettably the tools to manage my account and select all mails before a > certain date for example seem to not exist... > > over the last few day I have downloaded all my 7GB using a program called > "Gmail Backup' > Now I'm going to try to see if I can delete all the >142000 messages at the > same time to get a fresh start. > > If anybody knows some tricks that would be interesting! Did you know that you can purchase more space? https://www.google.com/accounts/PurchaseStorage I would not recommend continually using more storage for the long term though. Do you really need to keep all 7GB? It's a problem finding time to go through and delete all the old unimportant stuff though... John -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist