Hi, All I can say is go into the mail app then hit eddit and at the bottom of the screen is a mark all button. An alert will pop up and you have to hit the mark as read button. It won’t fix your storage issue but that’s all I can think of.
My group: marias-chat+subscr...@googlegroups.com > On Oct 27, 2018, at 6:01 PM, Tom Lange <lang...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi all, > Before I pose my question, I’d like to apologize up-front for the off-topic > nature of this question, but frankly I’m not sure where to go with this, so > please bear with me. Please, no flames. > All right then, here goes. I’ve had a Gmail account since 2007 and, like many > people out there, I’m on a number of moderate to high traffic e-mail lists. > There’s not enough time in the day to manage all of it so, as a consequence, > my inbox, along with lots of other folders, has accumulated thousands upon > thousands of unread messages. This is painfully or occasionally laughably > evident every time I see the mail icon on my iPhone’s home screen. It says I > currently have 93,890 unread messages, and I don’t even want to think about > all of the read messages that have accumulated over the past twelve years. > When I log on to the Gmail web page it says that 54% of my allocated storage > has been used. So I need to find a screen reader-friendly way of doing a > slash-and-burn number on my inbox and all other folders/labels. I couldn’t > figure out a way to do this using the native app on my phone or the Inbox app > either, nor could I figure out how to do it at www.gmail.com using Safari or > using JAWS or NVDA on my laptop. I have correspondence from friends and > family that goes back a few years that I want to keep. I figure everything > else prior to, say June of this year can get trashed. So, anybody got any > ideas? Thanks in advance. > Tom > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: > mk...@ucla.edu. Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at > caraqu...@caraquinn.com > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: mk...@ucla.edu. Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.