That will get rid of all of them indeed. My reason to suggest to select the
messages was 2-fold ;-)
-it will prevent your scenario
-Outlook doesn't really like to delete 4000 messages at once. Doing it in
smaller increments is much more reliable and often faster as well.
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"Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Only if you highlight them first and not "select all" in the view. Select
> All will delete everything.
>
> --
> Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
>
> Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
> unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
> reading.
>
> After furious head scratching, Roady [MVP] asked:
>
> | Surely it doesn't? You would only delete the 1000 highlighted emails
> | then.
> |
> |
> | "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]"
> | <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> | news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> || That also deletes the read messages. Delete does not respect the
> || view.
> ||
> || --
> || Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
> ||
> || Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
> || unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
> || reading.
> ||
> || After furious head scratching, Roady [MVP] asked:
> ||
> ||| Switch your view to show unread emails only. You should be able to
> ||| delete them with SHIFT+DEL with about 1000 at a time.
> |||
> |||
> ||| "NoMoneyBags" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
> ||| message news:75EC45E7-EF9C-441D-9BAD-(E-Mail Removed)...
> |||| I have over 4000 unread messages. Is there a easy way to delete
> |||| these messages all at once and at the same time save all my read
> |||| messages?
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