Another easy way is to use Edit | Find. Then specify a date range then you
can use CTRL-A or Edit | Select all on the results and then right click on
the selection and copy them to a folder or delete them.

Do a File | Folder | Compact to shrink the file down after doing that.

steve

"PaulT" wrote in message
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We have over 5000 files in our deleted Items folder but would like to
delete around half(keeping the newer messages)... I can only find a way to
delete all at once or do it one by one.. Is there a trick to deleting a
large group without deleting them all?? Thx in advance.