Have you ever had to delete over 3200 emails?????
By bellaofchaos
@bellaofchaos (11538)
United States
January 26, 2009 8:44am CST
Ok so I have stopped using my aol account for about oh gosh a very long time. And every once in a blue moon I go there and delete my mail. Well it's been quites some time and I have over 3200 emails and they won't let me delete all of them at once since there is to many .. boo hoo... So now I have to suffer through click on each individual box and I have no clue how long that is going to take ... I feel a migraine coming on.. That'll teach me to not check my email for a long time LOL!!!
So has this ever happened to you or have you been on top of your emails no matter how many email accounts you have?
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30 responses
@novataylor (6570)
• United States
27 Jan 09
Um, this is embarassing in a way, Bella, but needless to say, it's been quite a long time since I've been to my first mail account because I just took a look and I've got - now seriously, Bella - 32,504 emails. Yup count them. Thirty two thousand, five hundred and four emails. Gulp! So. Also needless to say, I think I'm going to try my best to do what I've been doing and that's to completely ignore them all and hope they'll go away. Wish me luck?
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@bellaofchaos (11538)
• United States
28 Jan 09
Lots of luck hun.. Your going to have to pm me the email that you use so I know which one to email. LOL!! I would hate to have my emails going to the depths of beyond. LOL!!! Love ya and miss ya. Just start deleting them all hun.
@tammyr (5946)
• Etowah, Tennessee
27 Jan 09
I have 3071 unread e-mails right now! I am bad to just skip over the ones I don't want to read and they really add up!! I always get to the ones from my friends but my yahoo groups usually get skipped over unless I have extra time and here lately I don't have any extra to spare! lol
I don't go days without checking them either or it would REALLY get bad! I check them every day. I went to a friends house for the weekend a month or so and did not check it and I had like 200 new ones to weed through!! I HATE SPAM!!
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@shooie (4984)
• United States
27 Jan 09
Well I guess I won't complain when I finally get around to checking my extra ones. I think the most I have had to go through is like 250. It would be more but I started distcontinuing some and or directing them to spam. Good luck and have fun....lol glad it's you and no me.
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@bellaofchaos (11538)
• United States
27 Jan 09
See that is so many shades of wrong. the least ya can do is delete 100 on your way offline. LOL!!!
@bellaofchaos (11538)
• United States
27 Jan 09
hey your more than welcome to comeover and take care of my emails if you like to clean them out for me. LOL!!!
@34momma (13882)
• United States
28 Jan 09
i don't have an aol account, but i will say i do get some junk mail to my yahoo. not as much as i use too though. i would recommend a gmail account. i get very little junk mail with that account. although i only use it for my website, i still get very little junk mail
@bellaofchaos (11538)
• United States
30 Jan 09
i use to like aol but anymore I can't deal with the way it lets to much spam in.
@bellaofchaos (11538)
• United States
28 Jan 09
Thanks 34Momma .. I actually have a gmail that I abandonned this aol account for LOL!!!
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@anonymili (3138)
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27 Jan 09
Ok you think that's bad? Yesterday I logged into a yahoo account that I rarely use (I have my photo albums associated with it) and I had over 6700 emails in there which horrified me. I had joined some recycling scheme yahoo group for my neighbourhood some months ago and used that email address and completely forgotten about it. There were dozens of emails a day in there for months and months which took me ages to delete (as they were mostly out of date)! I've changed my preferences now so I only get the emails once a day LOL!
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@bellaofchaos (11538)
• United States
27 Jan 09
Yeah I'm going to have to see if I can set the preferences for aol or not 3200 is a ridiculus amount if you ask me. LOL!!
@skinnychick (6905)
• United States
26 Jan 09
Yep and it is the worst to delete them off of AOL- page by page. It can take forever. Good luck with that!
@bellaofchaos (11538)
• United States
26 Jan 09
it's taken me two hours to get to 1441.. LOL I'll be doing it all day today.. Well it's nice to see you agian and I'll talk to you soon hopefully. Take care.
@bellaofchaos (11538)
• United States
26 Jan 09
hey I"m down to 1200 yay me... I can't wait to be done with this.
@skinnychick (6905)
• United States
26 Jan 09
Yikes!! At some point it will let you delete them all. If you just keep emptying your trash. Just keep checking. I don't know how many though. I think I have deleted about 600 at one time on AOL.
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@ronaldinu (12422)
• Malta
31 Jan 09
I had an inactive yahoo account in which I had around 2000 emails but most of them were spam emails which I deleted immediately without bothering to open them and check what they were about.
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@bellaofchaos (11538)
• United States
3 Feb 09
yeah I didn't open these or check these ones out I just knew by the title what was spam and what wasn't.. LOL!!!
@gemini_rose (16264)
•
28 Jan 09
I have let my emails get to ridiculous amounts before now, the last biggie that I remember is when I went on holiday for a week and was posting loads here and had all my notifications turned on for all my friends on my list and I came back to about 1900 discussions and responses, that was a nightmare and I did learn my lesson from it!!
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@bellaofchaos (11538)
• United States
29 Jan 09
LOL I bet that was something. Let me guess you wanted to hide under the bed and away from the computer that day. LOL!! I know when I saw 3200 I wanted to cry...
@elitess (5070)
• Ipswich, England
27 Jan 09
Hello Bella. I don't get this kind of problem, as i managed to keep my email address 90% spam free, and since i check it when i get new mail, i make sure to keep it that way. I only have about 2-300 mails in my account and all of them are needed.
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@bellaofchaos (11538)
• United States
27 Jan 09
I'm slowly but surely getting this done here so I'm now at 214 and I'm almost ready to jump up and down LOL!!
@srijshm (1165)
• India
26 Jan 09
The highest i had to do was about 2000 mails. I am a member of few professional forums & recieve many mails from these forums. I recently took a break for newyear & when i checked back my mail after about 4 days i was shocked to see more than 2000 mails in my inbox ( not spam). IT so happened that all the forum members had posted new year wishes .
Before i forget : belated new year wishes to you.
Thank god for the "check all+delete" button 
Thank god for the "check all+delete" button 
@bellaofchaos (11538)
• United States
26 Jan 09
LOL I'm down to 1200 I think so not to much longer in the deleting I hope. LOL!!
@bellaofchaos (11538)
• United States
27 Jan 09
Hi itsmine I have put all of the junk and spam mail Under the title spam and it's supposed to be differed to the spam folder and then deleted after a proper amount of time. Unfortunately it's not going there so I have to reput them in as spam in the meantime I had all that email to go through and delete. I'm done to 622 now. LOL!! I hope to be done by the end of business today. LOL!!
@kimberly99 (54)
• United States
27 Jan 09
Yeah, I've been that too, its like a heart attack, thats why i always chck my emails but i usually move the emails that are not important like marketing i always move them to the Spam and so they won't bother my inbox anymore...
@bellaofchaos (11538)
• United States
27 Jan 09
I have been moving them to spam the thing is that they are able to evade aol spam and jump into my in box like an unrully puppy. LOL!!!
@bellaofchaos (11538)
• United States
27 Jan 09
I just can't compile it in a folder I would then never ever be tempted to go through it and get rid of it. LOL!!!
@bellaofchaos (11538)
• United States
27 Jan 09
nice haven't really played with yahoo mail in a while maybe I'llhave to check it out. LOL!!!
@smartbrain69 (2790)
• Canada
27 Jan 09
Yeah i have deleted more than 3200 emails, as i am subscribed to discussion forum so i get very much emails each day.
@annjilena (5618)
• United States
27 Jan 09
i have had more then that one time mind had got up to 10,000 letters because my internet was cut off.so i had to wait to get internet.and no they will not let you delete all at once and i hate it.
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@bellaofchaos (11538)
• United States
27 Jan 09
I hear ya I hate that they don't let you delete it all at once either. I think that would be so much better if you know what I mean
@sparkofinsanity (20471)
• Regina, Saskatchewan
27 Jan 09
You got me curious, so I checked my trash file and found that in the past month alone I've deleted over 7000 emails and then there are the ones that I've saved to other files, so the number of emails I get in a 30 day period are huge! Didn't realize I was so popular! LOL When I was off line after we moved, I can't even remember how many emails I had to delete. Lately I've tried to clear the emails in my hotmail account too, but they've made all these changes to hotmail lately and now I can't delete anything! So they are really piling up.............
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@bellaofchaos (11538)
• United States
27 Jan 09
I think it's time that you called the geek squad for your email issues with hotmail. I have noticed a change in them but I have been able to delete my emails. LOL!!!
@alankor (478)
• Singapore
27 Jan 09
well what have you been doing with all that 3200 emails coming into your inbox? are they spams or what?you should really check your email every now and then. the most i have in my inbox was around 20+.i always make it a habit to check my email when i am online.
@bellaofchaos (11538)
• United States
27 Jan 09
Here is the thing I started getting spam in this one no matter how many times I added stuff to the spam list and so I went and got a less spammed email. LOL!! so I haven't visited this one in a while. But there is no point in checking it daily since all my important emails go to my other account now. I just thought I check on it and clean it out.
@agrant10 (1476)
• United States
27 Jan 09
3200 emails, Wow and you had to delete them all. I could not image doing all that in one day anyway. You must not have check them in a real long time. By the time you are able to clear them all out. Can you image how many more will accumlate.
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@bellaofchaos (11538)
• United States
27 Jan 09
TRust me that is one thing I don't want to think about LOL!!!
@user_786 (1338)
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27 Jan 09
i never had to delete thousands of email together but regularly 10s of junk emails arrive in the junk of folder that i've to delete manually.
although i have enabled 'block email' options for many email addresses but new pranks, junk keep coming in everyday that needs manual deletion regularly
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@bellaofchaos (11538)
• United States
27 Jan 09
See I have a junk folder that deletes after a certian amount of time and what I'm deleting is what is getting passed my junk mail/ spam folder. grrrrr. I hate spam.
