How to delete all emails older than 2 years?

friderday · 26 Jan 2024, 03:32 PM

Hello, I have a lot of old emails in my Gmail inbox that I don't need anymore. I want to delete all emails that are older than 2 years, but I don't know how to do that. I tried to use the search function, but it only allows me to filter by date range, not by age. Is there a way to delete all emails older than a certain date? If there isn't any possible way, I have to do it one by one and it will take forever to delete over fifty thousand emails

**CyberSmurf** · 26 Jan 2024, 07:15 PM

Do you mean "filter by date range", or sort by date range?

If you can filter by date range then there shouldn't be a problem.
Assuming that you have archived (moved out of your inbox) all messages that you wish to keep.
In webmail use the search ...

Quote:

older_than:2y in:inbox

After clicking the checkbox at the top left a bar will appear.

Quote:

All 50 messages on this page are selected. Select all messages that match this search

Click on "select all messages".

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Alternately you can use a search like ...

Quote:

before:2022/01/01 -in:keep -in:important

Replace "keep" with any label for messages that you don't wish to delete. Remember to include the minus sign ("-") before ïn" for labels that you wish to keep..

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See https://support.google.com/mail/answer/7190?hl=en for "Search operators you can use with Gmail".

**CyberSmurf** · 27 Jan 2024, 12:41 AM

Here's a search that you may wish to run first ...

Quote:

older_than:2y in:inbox has:nouserlabels

TenFour · 27 Jan 2024, 08:28 AM

Using Gmail's webmail I would just select Allmail, then select the box that says Any Time and adjust for a custom range. Once I had selected all the emails older than 2 years I would just select all and delete.

friderday · 27 Jan 2024, 12:01 PM

if I sort it as you guys say and one more button named "Select all conversations that match this search". Finally all the the old spam mails are gone
Thank you so much.

Bamb0 · 28 Jan 2024, 09:45 AM

Welcome to EMD!

You really had 50,000 messages??

Wow..Im glad we helped ya

What did it say for how full your mailbox was?? (I reckon around 20% full (1 has to get really high to max out a gmail account))

friderday · 30 Jan 2024, 11:12 AM

yes, nearly 50,000. Unfortunately, there are a lot of spam mails and I had to unsubscribe all of them

26 Jan 2024, 03:32 PM	#1
friderday = Permanently banned = Join Date: Jan 2024 Posts: 4	How to delete all emails older than 2 years? Hello, I have a lot of old emails in my Gmail inbox that I don't need anymore. I want to delete all emails that are older than 2 years, but I don't know how to do that. I tried to use the search function, but it only allows me to filter by date range, not by age. Is there a way to delete all emails older than a certain date? If there isn't any possible way, I have to do it one by one and it will take forever to delete over fifty thousand emails Last edited by CyberSmurf : 31 Jan 2024 at 06:36 AM. Reason: OP returned and added spam link. Copy post. Remove link in original. Unapprove copy.

27 Jan 2024, 12:01 PM	#5
friderday = Permanently banned = Join Date: Jan 2024 Posts: 4	if I sort it as you guys say and one more button named "Select all conversations that match this search". Finally all the the old spam mails are gone Thank you so much. Last edited by friderday : 27 Jan 2024 at 12:50 PM.

27 Jan 2024, 08:28 AM	#4
TenFour Master of the @ Join Date: Feb 2017 Location: USA Posts: 1,738	Using Gmail's webmail I would just select Allmail, then select the box that says Any Time and adjust for a custom range. Once I had selected all the emails older than 2 years I would just select all and delete.

28 Jan 2024, 09:45 AM	#6
Bamb0 Master of the @ Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: USA Posts: 1,873	Welcome to EMD! You really had 50,000 messages?? Wow..Im glad we helped ya What did it say for how full your mailbox was?? (I reckon around 20% full (1 has to get really high to max out a gmail account))

30 Jan 2024, 11:12 AM	#7
friderday = Permanently banned = Join Date: Jan 2024 Posts: 4	yes, nearly 50,000. Unfortunately, there are a lot of spam mails and I had to unsubscribe all of them