When cleaning out old emails from the same sender, e.g., accumulated adverts from Best Buy, doing an inbox search often results in more than one page of them.  Clicking the select box at the top checks everything on that page and brings up the 'Select everything' option.  Clicking that brings up "Everything in this view is selected" after which hitting the delete button brings up the title of this query, "You're about to delete all of the messages in this view" along with an 'EMPTY' button.

I just want to make sure I don't accidentally delete something I want to keep, so my question is, does "all of the messages in this view" mean the same thing as "all of the messages in this search", similar to "Everything in this folder is selected" when cleaning out a folder?

I know this sounds like a "Well, duh??" question, but I'd rather be safe than sorry and don't want to hit that 'EMPTY' button until I'm certain that only the items in my search will be deleted.

Thanks for your help,

Mel J.

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