I want to delete many old e mails in my Mail inbox. How do I delete a group of old e mails without having to delete each individual one?

I want to delete a large number of old emails in my Mac Mail inbox. I have 4425 in inbox and want to delete all but current ones. How do I highlight the mails, as a group, from the oldest to mail to most current that I want to delete?

While we all have MacBooks in this forum not all of us have iPhones. There's a iPhones Support Community where everybody has an iPhones. You should also post this question there to increase your chances of getting an answer
https://discussions.apple.com/community/iphone/using_iphone

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How do i delete or empty all the messages in my junk email at the same time without having to mark each message?

Not certain, but this can fix myriad Mail problems...
Safe Boot from the HD, (holding Shift key down at bootup), it will try to repair your Disk Directory while the spinning radian is happening, so let it go, run Disk Utility in Applications>Utilities, then highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions, then move this folder & file to the Desktop.
Move this Folder to the Desktop...
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Caches/Mail/
Move this file to the Desktop...
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Mail/Envelope Index
Reboot.
If that doesn't do it and you can afford to redo all your Rules, try these & reboot...
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Mail/MessageRules.plist
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Mail/MessageRules.plist.backup
Note, in 10.5 & up /Users/YourUserName/Library/Caches/Mail/ may or may not exist.

I have a few hundred duplicates in my iPhoto library, but the file sizes are different. So one is 1.3mb and one is 567kb. I want to delete the smaller ones, but short of comparing each duplicate, is there a way to do this?

I have a few hundred duplicates in my iPhoto library, but the file sizes are different. So one is 1.3mb and one is 567kb. I want to delete the smaller ones, but short of comparing each duplicate, is there a way to do this? I've been looking at Duplicate Annhilator but I don't think it can do it.
Thanks!

I just ran a test with iPhoto Library Manager, Duplicate Annihilator, iPhoto Duplicate Cleaner, Duplifinder and Photodedupo. I imported a folder of 5 photos into a test library 3 times, allowing iPhoto to import duplicates. I then ran the 5 photos thru resizer to reduce their jpeg compression but all other aspects of the file the same.
None of the duplicate removal apps found set that was reduced in the file resizer. That's probably due to the fact that the file creation date was being used as a criteria and the resized photo would have a different file creation date even though the Image Capture date was the same.
They all found the 3 regular duplicates and some of them would mark two and leave the 3rd unmarked. iPhoto Duplicate Cleaner can sort the found duplicates by file size but if the file was edited to get the reduced file size it might not be found as it would have a different file creation/modification date.
iPhoto Library Manage was able to find all duplicates and mark them as such if the file names were the same the the filename option was selected. Otherwise it also missed the modified, resized version. It allowed one to select the one photo to save before going to work on the library.
So if a photo has been reduced in image quality or pixel size it will not be considered a duplicate.
OT

I have 28,000 unread e-mails on my iPhone 5. How can I delete without having to select each one under edit?

I have 28,000 unread e-mails on my iPhone 5. How can I delete without having to select each one under edit?

Sounds like the email account is a POP account and if so, you have 28K emails that remain at the incoming mail server for the account. If all received email has been downloaded with the email client on your computer used for accessing the account, delete all email that remains at the incoming mail server. You can do this via webmail access for the account using a browser on your computer.
Folllow this by deleting and recreating the account on the iPhone.

How to add gmail account to mail without having to download all old mail

How to add a gmail account to mail without having to download all old mail. As i have thousands of main over the years.

In Mail, select the File -> Preferences menu. Click on Accounts in the toolbar. Select your gmail account on the list on the left and press the Advanced tab. Uncheck the Enable This Account box. That should do it.

Both of my kids have ipod touch 4. On 1 we can edit the camera roll and delete muptiple pics at once. On the other, we can't edit in camera roll and have to delete each picture one at a time? How do we get edit as an option in camera roll?

Both of my kids have ipod touch 4. On 1 we can edit the camera roll and delete muptiple pics at once. On the other, we can't edit in camera roll and have to delete each picture one at a time? How do we get edit as an option in camera roll?

Hi jenny,
Are you certain that they are both running IOS 6.1.3? Go to Settings>General>About, and check the "Version".
Cheers,
GB

Why can't I delete all incoming messages at once without having to select each one first. It can be done while in the "Trash" folder, but not the "IN" folder.

Why can't I delete all incoming messages at once without having to select each one first. It can be done while in the "Trash" folder, but not the "IN" folder.

Well, what I see happing is this: Tapping edit and checking the first message brings up the “Delete” option. Holding it until the red message “Delete Message” appears, then letting go of the red button and tapping the checked button makes the “Delete Message” message go away. The checked message is still checked with an option to delete just that message. Tap the checked message again just cancels the whole process and I’m back to square one.
However, if I check a message that is part of a thread of messages and tap Delete, I have the option of deleting all messages in the thread.
Perhaps the fact that I’m using the 3rd generation of the iPad is the problem, but your suggestion isn’t working.

How can i get notification of new emails in Mail without having the application open?

How can i get notification of new emails in Mail without having the application open?

Leave Mail running, but close its window (click red dot or ⌘W).
Right-click the Mail icon and use "Options" to enable "Open at Login". In the "Login Items" tab of "Users & Groups" system preference, check the "Hide" box next to Mail so it doesn't open a window when starting.

How do I delete large quantities of e-mails without clicking each individual one?

I am away from my desk , sometimes for days at a time. I easily received 50+ e-mails a day, and if I don't have time to just sit and individually go through and delete each one I don't need, it builds up to crazy numbers....I am currently at over 10,000 unread messages. I would like to be able to "select all" then simply click on the e-mails I want to keep...there will be a lot less clicking if I can do that. How might I make this happen? Thank you

I have never used message filters....to be terribly honest, I really didn't know they existed. I have never marked junk. I used to just delete as it came in...but lately I am not at my desk as much as I used to be, and my lack of attention to the list has exploded in this huge number of e-mails...and you are right, I am missing e-mails I should be seeing.
Unfortunately, my job requires that I receive many e-mails from different people that might not be folks I would have in my address book.
So, I am able to "select all" but I would like to then remove from the blanket those e-mails I want to keep. I still can't figure out how to do that.
Your surprise at my lack of e-mail skill is a little embarrassing but also amusing... :-)
Thank you for your reply, though...

I want to delete more than one song at a time from iTunes

I want to delete whole albums from itunes. Is there a way to delete more than one song at a time?

Or Command click on the songs if they are not consecutive on the list.

Trying to delete a lot of E-mails at once without having to tap each one individually

I just got my Playbook 1.
I have about 200 E-mails to delete.
I bring down the Menu on the top of the screen and I tap the "Select" key so the checkmark boxes appear next to each message. I tap the messages so the check mark appears on each one and then I tap the garbage can that appears at the right bottom side of the screen but sometimes it deletes a couple of them and sometimes it does not delete them at all.
I don't lime tike the idea of having to delete messages individually.
Can anyone suggest something or explain me why the "Select" function does not do the job?
Thank you for any help.

Steinmetz was doing all that select stuff anyway and it works OK for the rest of us. If they were not disappearing then I suspect a poor internet connection or poor response from the email server. They really need to sync properly to disappear altogether. Maybe it was some lousy Yahoo IMAP account.
Delete several times a day is the best approach, or if a real big cleanup is needed, delete on a computer then resync to playbook.

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If by "in the cloud" you mean iTunes purchased tracks, deleting them from the device will not impact that. You will be able to redownload them later. To clear all tracks from the Music app: Settings app > General > Usage > Manage Storage [under STORAGE] > Music > All songs [swipe to the left] > Delete

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My itunes library has duplicated "ALL" my files with thier individual iclouds. How do i delete them all sa one group than rather to delete each individual file?

My itunes library has duplicated "ALL" my files with their individual iclouds. How do I delete them all in one single swipe rather than delete each one individually?

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I want to delete many old e mails in my Mail inbox. How do I delete a group of old e mails without having to delete each individual one?

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