Bulk Deleting All Messages in a Folder in Microsoft Outlook Web Access

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Multiple delete in Microsoft Outlook Web Access

How do you delete all messages in a folder in Outlook, preferrably through Web Access?

I left my Outlook account unattended for several days (on vacation) and when I got back I found several folders with over 5k emails, mostly error logging or spam. When I try to open the Outlook client, it just locks up, presumably unable to download that many emails. I can view at most 100 emails at a time, but I can't select all emails to delete or permanently delete them immediately, so manually deleting this many emails is going to take a while.

Gmail has a similar feature to select and delete all emails in a folder, and that's free so I figure being a quality non-free product from Microsoft, Outlook should have a similar feature (yes that's sarcasm). I've Googled, but I'm not finding anything. Is this possible?

Answer 1

UPDATE

Just right click on the desired folder and select Empty Folder

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Like dean said, you can hold Ctrl to select single items or even Shift to select multiple items.

I haven't used OWA in a long time but a little trick I used to do in Firefox was to use this javascript bit to select all of the checkboxes

javascript:var f=document.activeElement.childNodes1.contentDocument;var c=f.all['MsgID'];var i;for(i=0;i

type it in the address bar and hit enter, it should select all of the checkboxes.

Answer 2

I know that you can hold Control and select the items and then hit the delete button. You could try that.

Answer 3

While in your inbox, hit Ctrl+A. This will select all messages in your inbox. Do the same in your deleted folder to permanently delete the messages.

Warning! This will delete ALL messages!