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How to Delete all Emails Before a Certain Date on Outlook ??

Kerry Morris ~ Modified: April 15th, 2016 ~ ~ 1 Minute Reading

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  • April 15, 2016 at 12:08 pm #1920 Score: 0
    Kerry Morris
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    Please help me through this situation.

    I am having more than 10000 Emails in my Outlook which might be the cause to work Outlook slowly and Outlook keeps hanging every time.

    So, I think that if i delete my less important emails by taking its backup at other location in my PC could resolve the problem. Therefore I want to delete my older emails to resolve the hanging issue of Outlook.

    So, Please guys help me to delete my older emails by date wise or by selecting all emails before a particular date.

    If this is not the solution to the Hanging problem of Outlook then please tell me any solution related to this too.

    Thanks in advance!!

    April 18, 2016 at 6:52 am #1936 Score: 0
    Henry Davidson
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    31 pts

    Hi Kerry,
    Thanks for posting in SYSC

    If you want to delete your previous emails then you can go for it but take backup first. To backup emails from outlook you can use its export feature, which will save all emails in PST file.

    After successful backup, proceed for deleting emails.
    Run Outlook and go to the View tab.
    Now click on Reading Pane and click on Off. You can view below image for reference.
    Outlook View Menu
    Make sure that all emails are organized as received according to date.
    Now Select the first mail at a particular date from which all previous mails you want to delete.
    After selecting the first emails for selected date Press Ctrl + Shift + End key to select all previous emails. After selection of all previous emails from selected date, right click of mouse button above selected mails and select Delete to delete all emails.
    If all deleted mails goes to Deleted items folder then you can delete all emails from there by using same procedure.

    I hope your problem will be resolved if you follow above described way. If you again find any hanging issue after deletion of mails then feel free to post about that.

    Regards
    Henry

    April 19, 2016 at 11:02 am #1943 Score: 0
    Lincoln Burrows
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    16 pts

    I am having same problem too. I followed above solution but it didn’t work.

    So, Please tell me any alternate solution to stop hanging the Outlook.

    April 20, 2016 at 5:04 am #1946 Score: 0
    Kerry Morris
    Moderator
    34 pts

    Thanks Henry for your reply.

    I followed your solution and it helped me a lot.

    April 21, 2016 at 7:33 am #1953 Score: 0
    Henry Davidson
    Moderator
    31 pts

    Hi Lincoln,

    You should repair Outlook Data File(.pst) to get rid of hanging problem. There might be a chance of PST file corruption which is leading to hanging issue.
    You should go below link to know about repairing Outlook PST file.
    Repair Outlook Data file (.pst)

    April 22, 2016 at 8:41 am #1958 Score: 0
    Lincoln Burrows
    Moderator
    16 pts

    Thanks Henry for sharing link, it helped me.

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