outlook account settings remove account but retain emails

#Outlook account settings remove account but retain emails how to#
#Outlook account settings remove account but retain emails install#

#Outlook account settings remove account but retain emails install#

If you only have a few emails to process (less than 10), it's not necessary to install the addon AttachmentExtractor Continued. Why copy the emails to a local folder Temp, extract the attachments there, delete the original emails in Gmail, and move the content from Temp back to Gmail? This seems unnecessarily complicated, and we could think 'Let's apply AttachmentExtractor Continued directly to the bigattachments IMAP folder'! Short answer: the latter doesn't work, already tested! This is due to a Thunderbird bug. I you have a solution for this, please drop a comment. You can now do the cleanup: a) Remove this bigattachments label (removing a label doesn't delete its emails), b) Go back to Conversation view on, c) Delete the Thunderbird's Temp local folder, or even remove Thunderbird.įor me AttachmentExtractor Continued worked for normal attachments, but not for 'inline images' (even if I checked Also extract embedded 'inline' images too), maybe this feature is not working yet. It's done! You can check on Gmail web that the bigattachments contain the same emails, but with attachments removed. Drag'n'drop them back to the bigattachments label (IMAP). Select all the emails in the local Temp folder. Wait a few minutes, refresh Gmail web, and enjoy the change from 5 GB of 15 GB used to 1GB used :) This is scary the first time, but it works. Now delete all these emails in the bigattachments label. (Note: if you don't switch to Conversation mode off, you won't be able to see the right count of emails, you would get a count of conversations instead!). Check that the number of emails here is equal to the number of emails you processed in Thunderbird. Now go to Gmail's web ( ), go to Settings, temporarily switch to Conversation mode off, Save settings. Carefully check that the attachments are removed from the emails (you can check the Size column), and that they are saved in the destination path too. Right click, select 'Extract attachments', select a destination path for the attachments.

Now select all the emails in the local Temp folder. Then install the addon AttachmentExtractor Continued (the original addon AttachmentExtract doesn't work on Thunderbird 60 anymore).

This step can take a long time depending on the size of the data to be downloaded. Drag'n'drop to copy all the emails from bigattachments (IMAP, on distant server) to temp (local). Now create a local folder in ThunderBird named temp.Then select all the emails that have a size > 1 MB, and move them (with a drag'n'drop) to the bigattachments folder.

Click on the Size column header to sort all your emails by size. In Thunderbird, go in All mail, right click on the columns, and enable the display of the column Size.Install Thunderbird (tested with Thunderbird Setup 60.5.0.exe) and set up the Gmail account.Also create a Gmail label named bigattachments, and configure it to be visible from IMAP. First enable IMAP in Gmail's Settings.

#Outlook account settings remove account but retain emails how to#

Thus, here is a detailed workflow explaining how to mass remove attachments for, say, all the emails of your Gmail that have a size > 1 MB. As it could be potentially dangerous to open our data to a 3rd party company, I prefer not to use it, for now.Īs mentioned in answer, it is possible to remove attachments in emails (and keep the original text) by enabling IMAP in Gmail + Thunderbird, but the workflow is quite long. our personal data - transit via this 3rd party company's servers or not when using Dittach. The Chrome extension Dittach is said to do this, but it is still unclear for me (I didn't find the answer on their website) if our emails' content and attachments - i.e.