Until recently I have been synchronising my 9300 with Outlook and including the last two weeks of emails in that synch. I assumed that I was keeping only the last two weeks worth of emails on the phone but I've discovered that the synch simply adds to what is already there and now I have 1,496 messages that I don't need. Further, I've changed my email method to Gmail and don't want to synch emails with the PC anymore.
I have tried to delete those emails following the instructions, Tools - delete emails locally etc, but nothing happens. It's a pain as my attempts to back up the phone slow to a crawl when it reaches the messages, messages I don't want anyway.
Any advice please anyone, or any other way of doing it? Thanks.
How to delete emails locally?
CTRL-A, CTRL-D will select all, then delete all
Sorry, but it doesn't. If you do that it will then say that they will be deleted the next time you synch and I think if I remember right that they will be deleted from the server as well. I finally managed it by moving all the emails to another folder and then deleting. I don't intend to synch with Outlook again but if I do I will have to make sure that I have archived those emails or I will lose them too. At least this way I got them off my phone.