I just deleted over 4,000 old emails, 100 to 200 at a time, as I felt I had to quickly review the senders and subjects. This is literally 20 years of emails, so I’m surprised there weren’t more, but earlier today and yesterday, I had reviewed and trashed equally as many junk mails, so perhaps that is whey there weren’t more.
Evidently I did delete some emails as I went along over the years, but feels so good.. Like cleaning out drawers and cupboards, which I have been doing, too. Perhaps now I’ll be able to read new emails easily as in the past few weeks, Hotmail has been showing me who emailed me but wouldn’t show me the actual emails until I hit reply and waited a few (hopefully) minutes. Sometimes they wouldn’t show up at all. Add to this the hundreds of unsolicited and junk mails I get per day, email has come to be a real pain.
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Been there, done that. A few months ago, outlook (hotmail) said beyond a certain # of email stored I couldn’t open new mail received unless I wanted to start paying for an account. It’s a tedious task and I commend you for getting it done.
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Been putting it off for years, obviously. We should celebrate!!!
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:::raising my glass of Magners to you::: Cheers!
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Raising a gin and tonic to you… or will, once my driving is through for the day.
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You’re as bad as I am. With my old yahoo email address I got in 1999 with a long name I only wish I just had an easier short one, but I delete after reading almost always. I have a few folders for info I need to keep
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I love deleting things! 😀
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I try to keep the junk and trash folders cleaned, but my emails are a nightmare! I need to do it again myself!
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Well done!
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Congratulations
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I try to do that every day. All the spammers and scammers change their addresses automatically after each deluge. Does ANYONE actually respond to this stuff?
Gmail, by the way, automatically empties itself at whatever level it’s set at. I think other email systems do the same thing. So that wasn’t ALL of them. Some were probably automatically deleted. Amazing how hard it is to find all of them, isn’t it? They lurk in strange files.
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Nice! I’ve done this before and it’s quite a chore 🙂
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That’s how I feel about deleting old posts on my blog. I’m not sure anyone is enjoying reading the cools ones I’m reposting, but you can’t please ’em all!
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No you shouldn’t delete them why would you?
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It’s liberating to delete them. It’s also been good going through them and finding stuff I want to keep. I write a lot of drivel and I don’t much want the political stuff (except one). I’m also trying to get more memory. I’m not much of a person for keeping things.
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Oh I often must do the same, but if I tell you “this is a keeper” it really is, and goes into a special (JUDY) file, not only online. Because I am so wordy I guess you will have zapped all of mine. That’s OK I can write them again~!
Here is my drivel for today.
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Good job!
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An appropriate occasion to say, “You go, girl!” I love an uncluttered inbox and unsubscribe from just about every organization’s emails.
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If they would send one a week it is one thing, but the political emails have gotten to be ridiculous. Dozens and dozens per day. It would have more effect if they’d all get together and publish one a week. I’d give them money every week, but not every hour of every day!
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