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I was searching around but found no answers about this issue: I have a folder, in my Gmail account, where I automatically (with filters) put mail with attachments and other characteristics... they are basically emails that could be deleted. I periodically delete all emails form such folder.

However, some of them, which have also additional labels, are useful to me and I don't want to delete.

Is there a way of deleting all emails from a folder except the ones which also belong to other folders?

Another way of considering the question: is there a way to delete all messages marked with a certain label only and not with other labels?

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You won't be able to do it with a filter, because those act when the message comes in. However, it's simple to do with a search.

label:first -label:second

That search string will return all conversations with the label first and do not have the label second. The minus sign (- or hyphen, if you prefer) means negation.

More information about search operators is available at Advanced search.

If you want to exclude more labels, simply add them to your search string:

label:first -label:second -label:third
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  • Many thanks, it partially fix the problem but it can work. The more comprehensive solutions would be to find a way to exclude 'all other labels' without having to specify them all. In my case I have many labels and writing -label:second -label:third ...-thirteenth.. would be a bit annoyng Commented Nov 27, 2013 at 10:53
  • Yes, unfortunately that's just how it works right now. Commented Nov 27, 2013 at 16:30

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