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- Your Mac's Specs
- Late '09 iMac; Late '11 MBAir, 2017 iMac from ****!
OK, I'll admit it. I am getting old, just like my old iMac.
It's a late 2009 model, nothing fancy, running version 10.11.6 El Capitan. ****, I don't even know if this old Mac can take an OS upgrade, but that's another question for another time.
My email question is this.
I just noticed I have nearly 7500 emails in my inbox. I do have 3 accounts....one me.com that gets maybe 2 emails a month. A gmail account that I NEVER use, ever; and my OS Mail program.
I know if I emptied the inbox, it would give me more memory, would probably run a little faster....but what is the BEST way to delete all these emails? There may be a handful (prolly less than 50) out of the 7500 I'd want to keep.
I am thinking of just organizing them 'alphabetically" and then 'block deleting' dozens to hundreds at a time. But there may be one or two that I need to keep, but they'd be solo or singular emails....not any from AT&T or AmEx or any of the other sites that send me way too much email.
Any ideas or suggestions? I'd love to just be able to Select All, then drag them to a thumb drive IF I ever needed any of them but I don't think that's possible.
One more thing....I do not use 'the cloud'. Nothing of mine goes up there.... it's hackable as anything else out there so I still weekly use Carbon Copy Cloner and to a much lesser extent, Time Machine. I do that on this machine, my 2011 MBA and my newest iMac from **** (that has yet to ever see the internet-it's just for Photoshop and LightRoom, period).
Thanks, everyone!
Cheers!
Pat
It's a late 2009 model, nothing fancy, running version 10.11.6 El Capitan. ****, I don't even know if this old Mac can take an OS upgrade, but that's another question for another time.
My email question is this.
I just noticed I have nearly 7500 emails in my inbox. I do have 3 accounts....one me.com that gets maybe 2 emails a month. A gmail account that I NEVER use, ever; and my OS Mail program.
I know if I emptied the inbox, it would give me more memory, would probably run a little faster....but what is the BEST way to delete all these emails? There may be a handful (prolly less than 50) out of the 7500 I'd want to keep.
I am thinking of just organizing them 'alphabetically" and then 'block deleting' dozens to hundreds at a time. But there may be one or two that I need to keep, but they'd be solo or singular emails....not any from AT&T or AmEx or any of the other sites that send me way too much email.
Any ideas or suggestions? I'd love to just be able to Select All, then drag them to a thumb drive IF I ever needed any of them but I don't think that's possible.
One more thing....I do not use 'the cloud'. Nothing of mine goes up there.... it's hackable as anything else out there so I still weekly use Carbon Copy Cloner and to a much lesser extent, Time Machine. I do that on this machine, my 2011 MBA and my newest iMac from **** (that has yet to ever see the internet-it's just for Photoshop and LightRoom, period).
Thanks, everyone!
Cheers!
Pat