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Gmail Maintenance
Aug. 23rd, 2019 03:37 pmI decided that while I was home without much to do that I would Deal with My Gmail Inbox today. It has always been a sort of special hell trying to get it down from 25,000 unread nonsense emails to something manageable.
Out of desperation after doing about 500 emails fifty at a time, I searched to see if it was possible to do it a better way, and I found a solution, so here's a lifehack from me to you.
On the menu of your inboxes (Inbox, Spam, Starred) go down toward the bottom. You may have to expand the list, but look for an entry that says All Mail. Click it. Then, when you tick the box to "select all" it will make a dialog appear above the emails themselves that will tell you you have selected 50 emails and ask if you want to select ALL marked "All Mail." Do this, mark as read, and KABOOM finished. I actually had to repeat the process a couple of times because it was like it would miss some because I was telling it to do so many at once? But after several passes through, I got it, and I'm so happy.
My "main" gmail address is one I set up in high school at my guidance counselor's suggestion to begin applying for college and scholarship stuff. She told me to get a generic one with my actual name to use for the even if I used the alias ones for fun stuff since that was safer. Over time, it got sort of an overlap with all of buying stuff accounts, all my main accounts, and so on.
Over the past couple of years, I have started using a different variation of my name on an email address for serious stuff and NOTHING ELSE, and I've started using the first email address I made for an RP account for most fandom-specific sign-ups. I moved my AO3 and Dreamwidth account email addresses to the latter, and I think that all in all everyone should be happier now.
Out of desperation after doing about 500 emails fifty at a time, I searched to see if it was possible to do it a better way, and I found a solution, so here's a lifehack from me to you.
On the menu of your inboxes (Inbox, Spam, Starred) go down toward the bottom. You may have to expand the list, but look for an entry that says All Mail. Click it. Then, when you tick the box to "select all" it will make a dialog appear above the emails themselves that will tell you you have selected 50 emails and ask if you want to select ALL marked "All Mail." Do this, mark as read, and KABOOM finished. I actually had to repeat the process a couple of times because it was like it would miss some because I was telling it to do so many at once? But after several passes through, I got it, and I'm so happy.
My "main" gmail address is one I set up in high school at my guidance counselor's suggestion to begin applying for college and scholarship stuff. She told me to get a generic one with my actual name to use for the even if I used the alias ones for fun stuff since that was safer. Over time, it got sort of an overlap with all of buying stuff accounts, all my main accounts, and so on.
Over the past couple of years, I have started using a different variation of my name on an email address for serious stuff and NOTHING ELSE, and I've started using the first email address I made for an RP account for most fandom-specific sign-ups. I moved my AO3 and Dreamwidth account email addresses to the latter, and I think that all in all everyone should be happier now.
