Question by tamarapfoster: I need to know how to salvage contacts and folders in current e-mail account AND delete 108,000 messages quick?
I want to save all of my folders but it seems my only solution to the bulk of e-mails is to open another account ? How to? PLEASE HELP!

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Answer by fewcw
I don’t know what you mean by SALVAGING CONTACTS AND FOLDERS…If you have them they will not be affected by deleting the emails….you might want to submit another question and clarify that…

All At Once????
The only way is if you switched to “All New Mail”.
It has a continuous mail page which allows you to delete en mass. Click on FROM (which checks them all) then click on DELETE…either on your email page or keyboard. You can switch back to Classic mail afterward.

You can switch to ALL NEW MAIL from MAIL CLASSIC by clicking on ALL NEW MAIL at the top of your email page.

Otherwise, with Classic, it’s page by page.
BUT—-you can speed it up by changing the “messages per page” to 200 instead of 25. That makes it 8 times faster, with 200 at a time.

On your email page click on options (top right) then MAIL OPTIONS.. GENERAL will be displayed if you now have the new format.. Now, go down to *Folders/Search Results* and change the number in the box to 200–by clicking on the down arrow to bring up the 200 option to set the number while you scroll to the bottom of the page to click “save”. If you have the new format there is no SAVE to click on…

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