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Can I select multiple messages for deletion?
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Yes.
Scroll to highlight the first message, and then press the SHIFT key lower left and hold it while scrolling across adjacent messages. Press Delete.
Or scroll to any date separation bar and press Menu > Delete Prior.
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If not, any suggestions on backup apps? I have heard of Txtract to back up SMS and MMS messages, and Titanium Backup to back up everything (SMS, MMS, apps, app data...). Anyone have any experience with those, or other suggestions?
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Cannot select multiple messages in a sequence diagram

In sequence diagrams, deleting multiple messages is tedious because multiple messages cannot be selected by using a selection rectangle.
1) If the rectangle contains a single message, its object is also highlighted. So when multiple messages are selected, the corresponding objects are selected.
2) If the selection rectangle overlaps a single line of the combined fragments box, the entire box is selected.
I could same time if Studio used normal CTRL conventions. In other applications, holding down CTRL has two possible results.
1) If the item to be selected is not highlighted, then that item becomes highlighted and is added to the selection group. Studio does this.
2) If the item to be selected is already highlighted, then that item becomes non-highlighted and is removed from the selection group. Studio does not do this. So I cannot use a selection rectangle, then selectively use CTRL to remove unwanted items from the selection.
Can anyone suggest a way of selecting multiple messages?
As a side issue, does anyone know how to remove individual items from a selection?

TreySpiva wrote:
Have you tried using the Shift key when selecting?It's the same problem. Selecting one or more messages also highlights the sending and receiving objects associated with the messages. Pressing DELETE at this point would also delete the objects.

Dragging to select multiple messages in Mail 6.0 and OS 10.8

With recent software updates, there no longer seems to be a way to select multiple messages other than shift-click. I have always just dragged to select a number at once that I need to delete or move for one reason or another, which is much faster. what happened to the drag to select multiple messages in recent mail and OS 10.8 incarnations
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Unable to select multiple messages in Mail.

Hi,
I can't select multiple messages in Mail app. After selecting few, all of them automatically deselects. This is really annoying. I'm on 6.1.2 iP5, and this is happening from the begining. Never happened before on my iP4. The other problem with mail app is that it keeps opening my "first on the account list" e-mail account, and please don't tell me that this is normal since it never happened before. Sometimes when I try to open a random account I see a black screen
see an image below.
Please help me as this is driving me crazy.

Camelot wrote:
to select all messages in the current mailbox you enter command+A. then use "apply rules" from the Message menu. you can also do it with just a few selected messages. select them, control-click on the selected messages and choose "apply rules".
Interesting interpretation of the OP's request.
I read the request as wanting to take one action that applied to many messages, rather than apply one rule many times.
For example, consider a rule that forwards the message to some other address. Selecting all messages and running the rule will generate multiple new messages - one per selected item.
that was my understanding of what the OP wanted. perhaps I'm wrong. let's wait for the OP to respond and clarify what he/she really wants.
Conversely, and how I interpreted the request, an AppleScript could collate all the selected messages and combine them into one new message - essentially running the 'forward' on many items at once.
I'll be interesting to see the OP's response to see which matches his requirements.
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Attempt to drag a message and Mail instead selects multiple messages

I used to be able to quickly grab a message and drag it to a folder. Now I have to click and hold before the message is grabbed. If I try to do it quickly, Mail instead begins selecting the message I am trying to drag and continues autoscrolling and selecting all the messages below it.
I drag messages to folders far more often than I select multiple messages, so this is not a boost to my productivity. It breaks a pretty basic user interface convention too. I hope this change doesn't make its way into the Finder!
For the record: Overall I am VERY happy with Snow Leopard.

Hi Ernie,
Thanks for the reply. You're right (as was the original "helpful"-marked post) - dragging directly sideways does work to avoid changing the selection. However, I have a full vertical screen of message folders and my messages being dragged are almost always at the bottom (I don't use a preview pane), and I know for sure that I never had to drag sideways before dragging up before Snow Leopard.
The problem is even worse on Apple's 30" monitor, as you might imagine.
I simply need to be able to disable this undesired "multi-select mail items in the list with the mouse" functionality that (to my years of use) was never there in the past. I'm betting there is some preference setting I could put in, if only I knew what it was.
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Shift-scroll not selecting multiple messages

I've got two questions, but I'll post them separately to keep the threads clean...
I just got a Curve 8330 (used to have an 8830 World Edition, with Sprint in case it matters) and I'm loving it so far. But for some reason, I can't click the SHIFT key and scroll to select multiple messages like I could on the other BB. I've tried about every combination I could think of: Left shift, right shift, alt, press and don't hold, press and hold, press both and hold, alt-shift and scroll. Nothing.
Is it a software problem?
Is there some weird "don't allow shift to be used for multiple selection" setting some place.
Oh... and yes, the Shift key works just fine for other uses.
Ideas?

Hi and welcome to the forums,
I have an Verizon 8330. You should be able to use either the right or left keys to press and scroll.
Not to be insulting, but to verify, the keys are located on the bottom row last key on each side of the keyboard.
They have an up arrow in silver along with an aA in each. You should be able to highlight the message to start, press either shift key, and scroll the trackball to the last selected item.
I was just verifying the procedure.
Has this not worked since you got it, or has it just started?
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How do I select multiple messages from one sender in mobile email to delete them all at once?

I know how to select all of the new messages and mark as read. Now how would I do that if I wished to delete all from one sender or have the same subject, after I search the sender or subject?

Hey Koyster,
Great question. Utilizing iCloud.com, we may be able to purge these emails in a much faster way:
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Possible to select multiple messages in Mail?

I'm in the process of switching to Mail and am setting up rules. I want to apply a rule to multiple messages at one time, instead of applying the rule to each individual message, one by one. I cannot find a way to Select All or otherwise apply a rule to a bunch of messages (that are already in my InBox) all at once. Can anyone help? Thank you!

Camelot wrote:
to select all messages in the current mailbox you enter command+A. then use "apply rules" from the Message menu. you can also do it with just a few selected messages. select them, control-click on the selected messages and choose "apply rules".
Interesting interpretation of the OP's request.
I read the request as wanting to take one action that applied to many messages, rather than apply one rule many times.
For example, consider a rule that forwards the message to some other address. Selecting all messages and running the rule will generate multiple new messages - one per selected item.
that was my understanding of what the OP wanted. perhaps I'm wrong. let's wait for the OP to respond and clarify what he/she really wants.
Conversely, and how I interpreted the request, an AppleScript could collate all the selected messages and combine them into one new message - essentially running the 'forward' on many items at once.
I'll be interesting to see the OP's response to see which matches his requirements.
Message was edited by: V.K.

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is there any other way for marking multiple messages in Nokia 5230 rather than tapping a message----> tapping option---> then mark/ unmark ----> and finally mark... please help me
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This feature is missing on most Nokia models now a days.. Either you select ONE at a time or ALL at a time.. No option to select a few as you want..
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Selecting multiple messages in Messages app

I need to delete 100 old SMS from Messages application, is there any way to select them all? (Shift + click doesn't work)

Hi,
Clicking the First then holding the shift before clicking the second selects all those in between for me.
They include those Sent as well as those Received.
Is this the exact method you are using ?
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OS 10.2.1.1925 (SR 10.2.1.537) - Delete On Handheld only (fails if selecting multiple messages) (BES activated Devices)

Within the BlackBerry Hub / Display and Actions, the "Delete On" option is only partially working.
For example: If we select 'prompt' as the 'delete on' action the following works:
Highlight a message, delete, and then the prompt appears ' Delete from Hub, or Delete from Hub and server'. We can select 'Delete from Hub' and it leaves a copy of the message on the exchange server and in the users outlook.
If we select 'prompt' as the 'delete on' action the following fails:
Choose 'More', 'select more' and pick one or more messages and delete, it fails to prompt and deletes the messages from the handheld and the server (and of course outlook too).
Is this a known issue? Its hard for users who get hundreds of messages and want to delete them from their blackberry's to clean them up, but want to keep them in outlook.
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Yep, known issue (at least by some of us users) and I am not completely sure if BlackBerry knows.
*edit* oops, I see now you're posting in regard to BES activated devices. It works in the same manner for non-BES devices as well.
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Selecting multiple messages, then deselecting

When I go through my Junk mailbox to see if there's anything I want to read, my practice in Mail has been to highlight all the new messages, then deselect the ones I actually want to see with a command-click. In Leopard Mail, when I do this to a message in the middle of the list, Mail scrolls me to the top of the list so that I must manually scroll down to the beginning to review the rest of the list. Anyone else notice this bug or know how to stop it?
Thanks in advance.

It happens in Address Book, also. It is most likely with the base code they use to make the lists. It doesn't happen in the Finder, though.

Apple Mail: Selecting multiple messages with a common field

Greetings ...
I'm in the midst of moving from Eudora to Apple Mail (I know, I'm old), and I'm looking through all documentation online and here in Apple Support but can't find if there's a way to do this:
In Eudora, I used to be able to Option-click on an email header's "From:" column in a mailbox, and instantly all mail in that mailbox with the matching "From:" header would be grouped together and highlighted.
This enabled me, for instance, to take action (delete, transfer, etc.) on all email from one particular source at one time with a minimum of clicks.
(This worked for any field, btw -- I could group a thread of emails on the same topic together by option-clicking on the Subject: field.)
I've tried every key combination I can think of to elicit the same response from Apple Mail. Am I missing something?
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What happens when you type say the sender, or part of subject line in the search field. This should narrow your view to display only those emails matching the criteria entered in the search.
From: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2500
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Mail displays a list of its search results. Click the All Mailboxes button to display results from all mailboxes, or click Inbox to display results from your Inbox only.
Not exactly the same but perhaps close enough?

Periodically Thunderbird will fail to send a message, place it in the outbox and then start selecting multiple messages whereever I click.

Running on Windows 7 with latest Thunderbird but this has been happening for at least a year on two different Win 7 computers. Tried restarting Thunderbird which wants to force me into safe mode but does not fix it. Only a Windows restart fixes this issue. I have a third Win7 computer on which this has never happened.
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No, It happens once every week or two, just happened today, and I rarely am in Win safe mode. One never knows when it will happen.
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