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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.
Thanks, I didn't know I could use the seach function like that. It is helpful. WHY can't I just delete things!?!?
Okay, that's almost like linux geeks wrote it...
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.
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!
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!
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.
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
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
Hey now, being a Linux geek myself I can tell you that Linux gmail design is unfair. Not only would there be a command line version with 500 options, there would also be a brown GNOME version with two buttons and no features and a blue KDE version with 10,000 configuration options.