How do I delete a LARGE text message conversation?

My message app is taking up nearly 6GB, so I exported all of my messages to an excel file and backed it up to my computer. However, now I can't delete the one conversation that is so large. When I swipe to delete it, it keeps my app busy, making it impossible to send/receive texts while it attempts to delete it. Then, when I disable to app and reboot the device, the conversation is restored. I know that it takes the phone time to delete such a large file, so accounting for this, I even swiped to delete it just before I went to bed one night and let it work all night -- the conversation was still restored after I rebooted the phone the next morning. Do I just need to wait even longer? Is there anyway to get into the software and actually delete the file manually rather than having to wait for the phone to effectively delete it?

That doesn't address my problem at all, really. The conversation contains over 80,000 messages and I want to delete all of them to free up the 6GB it's taking up on my phone. It is so large that the phone can't effectively delete it, so I'm trying to figure out another way to delete it other than the ineffective swiping method (and I think it'd take me years to go through and delete 80k messages, 50 messages at a time). Thanks for trying, though.

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