Hey, Thanks for the offered assistance. I was talking about when Mavericks first came out, but that is not the point. Ok, I tried your instructions and yes I am in the U.S. I went to the google mail page per your link, but cannot for the life of me seem to find a select all button, just a select which from what I can tell only selects one message at a time. I did click on the link for screen reader users, but that does not seem to help at all. I cannot even find a move to trash under links, form controls, or even navigating around the page. Additionally, I deleted several files from my google drive and the mail page still tells me I cannot send or receive mail because my google account is full, and yes I have refreshed the page and even restarted the computer, so that is definitely false as I free’d up over 2 gigs of the 15 gigs. So any more help is greatly appreciated. Not sure how in the world this google mail site is so frustrating. Thanks, > On Aug 30, 2015, at 9:17 PM, M. Taylor <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello Brian, > > First, let me say that the native Apple mail application works just fine with > gMail in both Yosemite and in the soon-to-be-released El Capitan operating > system. > > Second, the reason your gMail account reached its storage limit is because of > the way Google handles message tagging. > > There is a lot of information on the web about how Google handles mail, with > regard to labels but the long and short of it is the following: > > 1. > In order to be considered gMail compatible, a mail client must automatically > move all deleted mail to the Trash folder on the gMail server. That is to > say, the message must be labeled as Trash. Both the latest version of Apple > Mail and MS Outlook 2010 and older do this. > > 2. > If your mail client does not do this, then you, as the user, must move > unwanted messages to the Trash folder, manually from within the Mail client. > For example, when I use Office Outlook 2007, instead of simply pressing the > Delete key on my keyboard, I tap the Applications Key, then select Move To, > then select Trash. This only takes about a second longer than just pressing > the delete key but it must be done if I want gMail to behave as expected. > > Okay, okay, getting down to the answer to your question: > > To reclaim your gMail storage space: > > 1. > Assuming you're in the United States, go to http:// mail.google.com and log > into your gMail account from your preferred web browser. > > 2. > Go to the All Mail Folder. > > 3. > Select all of the messages. > > 4. > Activate the Move To Trash Button. Doing this will "move" all of your > messages to the Trash folder. To be more exact, all of the messages will be > labeled as Trash. > > 5. > Open the Trash folder. > > 6. > Empty the Trash folder by clicking the Empty Trash button. > > Finally, note that unless you change the default gMail settings, all messages > labeled Trash will automatically be deleted after 30 days. > > Good Luck, > > Mark > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Brian Fischler > Sent: Sunday, August 30, 2015 3:01 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Help with Gmail and storage > > Hey all, > > After the debacle that was I believe Mavericks and gmail not playing well > together I moved everything to Apple mail. I was able to set my gmail account > to forward everything to my Apple mail and all has been fine since then until > now. I just found out that my gmail account is now completely full all free > 15 gigs.. So my question to those of you who are still using the gmail > website with VoiceOver is how with this new look gmail which by the way at > first glance is awful with VO how do you first delete what is in your inbox > and then how in the world do you permanently delete old trash mail so it is > not taking up space. This new look gmail keeps wanting to tell me social > stuff and show me things from youtube. Very annoying and not very straight > forward. Thanks, > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" 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/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" 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/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
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