When you do a search that matches them all, do a select all. Then a bar will pop up to ask if you want to select all from all pages... then when you click archive, it applies to all the messages, not just the ones you see on screen at the time.
On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 7:18 PM, Matt Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > I had google alerts emailing me news stories for a long time so that I > have like 20000+ emails from that source in my account. I stopped the > alerts from coming to my main folder but would like to still archive the > existing emails simple and efficiently without doing it like 45 at a time > or whatever I can't seem to get past, Is there a simple method to do this > with gmail? > > Any help appreciated, > Matt > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Gmail-Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gmail-users. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Gmail-Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gmail-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
