How can I delete multiple emails at a time
I sometimes get busy and don't read all of the random emails sent to me. When I get to many, it would be nice to have a way to go through and highlight those that I would like to delete and then hit the delete and all those I selected would be deleted. Now, it appears that I have to delete each one separately which takes more time. Does anyone know how I could accomplish this? Thanks for the help!
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hold the Ctrl key while you click though your list.
Other email clients have the possibility to draw a square and selecting multiple emails then you can delete them, like in File Explorer, why is this not possible in thunderbird? Would be nice as a new feature. Holding CTRL and then clicking up to 200 or 300 is till not great. Thanks!
sphere said
Other email clients have the possibility to draw a square and selecting multiple emails then you can delete them, like in File Explorer, why is this not possible in thunderbird? Would be nice as a new feature. Holding CTRL and then clicking up to 200 or 300 is till not great. Thanks!
Then hold the shift key. The fact other mail products create all sorts of fanciful methods to select something in a list is mostly because the web does that extremely poorly, laptop keyboards are often not adequate and touch screens are really awful for actual computing work.
As you are using a desktop application your operating system has standard shortcuts and standard methods. Using Ctrl and Shift in lists are two of them. The same as Ctrl+A selects everything in a list, F1 opens help (or what passes for it) and Ctrl+P prints.
You would click 200 or 300 boxes if they were there. Besides holding the shift key and clicking, please explain the difference. Oh, and learn the Windows selection methods Matt is referring to.
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Pressing SHIFT partly helps, but selects emails from the one you click to the newest email. Not good enough. What i mean is, using the mouse being able to draw for example a rectangle, and the ones in the rectangle are then selected.
sphere said
Pressing SHIFT partly helps, but selects emails from the one you click to the newest email. Not good enough. What i mean is, using the mouse being able to draw for example a rectangle, and the ones in the rectangle are then selected.
Did you consider clicking to select the first mail you want to select holding shift and clicking the last. I suggest you try it. There will be no drawing rectangles anytime in the near future. Thunderbird 60 is imminent and it will be almost a year before another major release. so asking for change is not going to do anything in the short term.
Hi, sorry no did not think of that. This is good also.
Thanks very much!