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I'm guessing 90%+ of my Gmail inbox could be deleted without me batting an eye, I just can't be bothered because the UX t do so is horrible.

Who on earth thought deleting 50 mails at a time is sufficient in the days of multi-GB inboxes?

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> Who on earth thought deleting 50 mails at a time is sufficient in the days of multi-GB inboxes?

whoever profits on using your data for advertising services like

It's also annoying you cannot delete the attachments whilst keeping the text of the email. It's all or nothing.

You both guys are today's lucky 10000! You can export entire gmail history with takeout and import the history locally to thunderbird. You can even make backup of it. Then delete everything and anything you want from the online gmail. Select 50 items at a time with "Select all" and delete page by page, go guys you can make it!

Good solution. Then, how can I backup the Thunderbird store/DB/whatever so I can access it later?

Backup the thunderbird profile, it's just a directory. Seriously why my parent comment is downvoted FFS?! WTF? You are receiving free advice while others would sell you paid subscription for it.

I'm using Thunderbird for the accounts I care about. I know I could hook into Gmail using IMAP. Just sayin' the Gmail UX for deleting is horrible and Thunderbird existing is no excuse for that.

If you don't care enough about your gmail to bother setting up thunderbird for it, why keeping it at all.

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