I have imported old emails from Outlook backups in my Gmail account and I ended up with 1000+ labels in my system. Is there an easy massive way to remove them and keep only ~10 my usual ones?
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migrated from superuser.com Jan 13 '11 at 14:04
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Not with stock Gmail. There may be a userscript out there to allow you to do that, but I wasn't able to find one with a cursory search. Another option might be to use an IMAP client, such as Thunderbird. Thunderbird maps pretty well its folders to Gmail labels. You might be able to bulk delete within Thunderbird and have the labels magically disappear. I admittedly haven't tried it (don't have T-bird in the office) and you should be careful that it doesn't end up deleting messages too. |
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it is possible to remove or hide labels in gmail by changing the view from HTML view to classic view. Go into settings, scroll down to labels. You can then choose which to remove or hide using check boxes. Nested labels are removed on bulk by selecting the top of the tree. Then revert |
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