Every nightmare I have that doesn't revolve around academic failure or public nudity is about that thing. In fact, once I dreamt that it attacked me while I was late for a test and naked.

Willow ,'The Killer In Me'


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§ ita § - Nov 20, 2007 12:51:46 pm PST #3502 of 25497
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

With contradictory command line switches.

But very flexible!


Sophia Brooks - Nov 20, 2007 1:07:30 pm PST #3503 of 25497
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

I have 10,000 emails in my gmail box. I want to delete everything except a) starred messages, and b) messages from certain people. Is there a way to do that that is less manual that going through each page?


amych - Nov 20, 2007 1:19:59 pm PST #3504 of 25497
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

Sophia, you can search something like:

-is:starred -from:Buffy -from:Xander -from:Willow

You'll still get the search results 20 to a page, which is craptastic, but you should be able to delete everything on those pages without as much close attention.


Sophia Brooks - Nov 20, 2007 1:22:03 pm PST #3505 of 25497
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

Thanks, I didn't know I could use the seach function like that. It is helpful. WHY can't I just delete things!?!?


§ ita § - Nov 20, 2007 1:36:16 pm PST #3506 of 25497
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Okay, that's almost like linux geeks wrote it...


le nubian - Nov 20, 2007 1:59:06 pm PST #3507 of 25497
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

Sophia,

in some ways, I'd advise you to make a category for all that you do not want to delete and then delete everything else.


Sophia Brooks - Nov 21, 2007 3:14:35 am PST #3508 of 25497
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

See, I sort of did that already, but I can't figure out how to delete everything NOT labeled something, only things that ARE labeled.

I have gotten down to about 3000, so not so terrible now!


Jessica - Nov 21, 2007 3:46:59 am PST #3509 of 25497
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Is there a way to copy-paste with an iphone? I'm getting used to the keyboard but I can't figure out how to ok!


DCJensen - Nov 21, 2007 3:49:30 am PST #3510 of 25497
All is well that ends in pizza.

Not yet, Jessica.

Somehow that functionality was not ready, or simply overlooked.

I doubt it will be long before it gets added to an update.


le nubian - Nov 21, 2007 3:58:01 am PST #3511 of 25497
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

Sophia,

-in:inbox is how you identify all messages not in the inbox.

I have a label called z-done. If I want to identify all messages that aren't z-done, I'd type:

-label:z-done