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Gmail Tips and Tricks – Delete Gmail Chat History

DSP — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 21:27:05 +0000

Gmail offers a feature where one can chat from Gmail Inbox.

Gmail stores the chat history in a folder inside Gmail. You can disable this feature or if you want to delete the chat history, you can delete it by the following method.

Login to Gmail.
On the left side of the screen you will see the Chat menu below Starred menu. I do not mean the chat window.

Click the Chat button
You will see the list of chat history in this folder and all the chat history is stored in Email format
When you open any conversation, you will see the date, time and the name of the person you chat with
If you want to delete any chat history, choose the message that you want to delete and click more action
Gmail bring bunch of option and choose Delete as seen below

The selected chat history will be deleted
You can also delete the chat history from the message view as described below
On right side of the message you will see Reply and an arrow next to it
Click the arrow to get a drop down menu
Select Delete this message

Selected chat message will be deleted
All the deleted chat history is stored in Trash, so do not forget to delete the messages forever from trash folder

I have applied the theme so the view and color in your Gmail may differ.

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DSP — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:41:50 +0000

Deleting messages in Gmail is very easy.

But when you want to delete 1 message in a conversation, you may end up deleting the whole conversation.

You cannot delete a single message in a conversation from the Inbox view.

You need to open the conversation and select the message that you want to delete and click on right top of the message box where you see a small down arrow.

Gmail will display a list of options and choose �Delete this message�.

Now, only the selected message is deleted and the rest of the conversation is not deleted.

All the deleted messages will be stored in Trash folder, and all the messages in Trash folder will automatically be deleted in 30 days.

If you want to delete the messages from Trash folder, Open the trash folder and select the messages you want to delete and choose delete forever on top.

If you want to delete all the messages in your Trash folder click Empty Trash now, this will delete all the messages in your trash folder.

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DSP — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 14:18:51 +0000

How to �reply to all� �Forward all� �Print all� �Delete Message� in Gmail?

Gmail offers multiple methods for doing the above.

If you want to delete the message in Inbox view, Select the messages in you want to delete and click the button �Delete�

When you select a conversation and Delete the message, all the emails n the conversation will be deleted.

So do not delete the entire message if you want to delete a separate message. The following steps will explain how to delete a single message in a conversation.

Click the message that you want to view and click on the small arrow appearing on the right top corner of the message view next to �Reply�

You will see the below options.

So if you want to reply to all the email addresses in the specific message click �Reply All�

If you want to forward the specific message click �Forward�

If you want to create a filter for the type of message that you are viewing currently, click �Filter messages like this�

If you want to Print only the selected message excluding all the messages in the conversation, click �Print�

If you want to delete only the selected message that you are viewing currently in a conversation, click �Delete this message�

�Report Phishing� rarely used. If you want to complaint any messages as Phishing, you can click �Report phishing�

If you want to see the original message of the conversation, click �Show Original�

If your messages are not in good format or not readable click �Message text Garbled� this will open a new window with the message and display the massage in plain text.

All the above steps are applicable to separate messages, it does not affect the conversation in Gmail.

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