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I separate my emails by year. I make a new folder every New Year's Day, and move all the mail for that year into the file. That keep my curent email box relatively easy to manage. Chris On 12/9/2016 11:21 AM, Lynette Cook wrote: > OMG!!! I cringe at the thought of dealing with 36K e-mails! I have > plenty, but not THAT many. It helps that I lost a hard drive a few > years ago. . . a few thousands crashed and burned then. If I learn > anything about moving messages as I attempt to deal with mine, I'll > let you know as well. > > Lynette > > On Dec 9, 2016, at 10:20 AM, Linda Feltner wrote: > >> Indeed..... >> >> I knew I had 36K emails in the Inbox. It didn't give me the count on >> the Sent or Trash. But after the last Disk Utility (which RE-named >> about 30 job folders, and gave them names with about 13 numbers-which >> I restored manually), my Mail wouldn't open at all, it said "Let's >> set up Apple Mail!" (gasp). >> The tech walked me through the import, and it showed it was trying to >> upload over 200K emails. I never knew how many were hiding in Trash >> and Sent. >> Once they all re-loaded (with some weirdness), after 3.5 hours, I >> group-selected email by years, starting with the oldest, and then hit >> Delete. The tech told me how to do that, I didn't read that in the >> knowledgebase (it only discusses how to totally erase the entire >> Trash folder, without selecting specific emails). >> So now I'm down to (only) 20K in the trash, and I do need to review >> last year. It's easy to select by name and get rid of the ads in bulk. >> >> I'm going to TRY to find a way to move emails in bulk to the On My >> Mac feature. If I find a method, I'll sure share it! >> >> Need more chocolate! >> Linda >> ___________________________ >> Linda M. Feltner Artist, LLC >> Guild of Natural Science Illustrators, President >> (520) 803-0538 >> www.lindafeltner.com <http://www.lindafeltner.com/> >> >> >> On Dec 9, 2016, at 11:06 AM, Lynette Cook wrote: >> >>> I too have thousands of e-mails and never knew what to do with them >>> to save them. Yikes! I do empty my trash regularly, but have the >>> messages in assorted in-boxes and "Sent" boxes. So I should be >>> saving them (errrrr. . . moving them) in the "On My Mac" area - one >>> at a time? Sheesh! Time for a drink. >>> >>> Lynette > > ________________________________________________ > > Need to leave or subscribe to the Sciart-L listserv? Follow the > instructions at > http://www.gnsi.org/resources/reviews/gnsi-sciart-l-listserv > -- >^..^< *Chris Gralapp*,MA, CMI, FAMI** Medical/Scientific Illustration eyeart at chrisgralapp.com chrisgralapp.com <http://chrisgralapp.com/> Need to leave or subscribe to the Sciart-L listserv? Follow the instructions at http://www.gnsi.org/resources/reviews/gnsi-sciart-l-listserv