How to remove obsolete gmail addresses?

Si_Clist

As soon as I start typing a "to" address in gmail, a list of suggestions comes up.  Most of these are not what are listed in my "contacts" but seem to be addresses with which i exchanged emails several years ago!  It would be nice if I can somehow delete these obsolete addresses, but I can't see a way of doing so.   Can it be done, and if so, how? 

flaneurs_lobster

Are you using a browser? Might be being stored there. In Chrome it's under Settings, Auto Fill.

Si_Clist

Thanks, but they're not listed as stored addresses under "addresses and more" in Chrome settings.

RumRat

How to delete an Autofill email address in Gmail (thewindowsclub.com)

Si_Clist

Thanks.  At least that's enabled me to stop Google automatically adding further email addresses to my "contacts" list.

However, unless I've missed something in the article to which you kindly linked, there's no mention of how to delete auto-suggestions of addresses which are not in my "contacts" list and it's those that are the PITA.  Some of them must be at least three years old!  I can't even work out where they're stored, never mind how to delete them ...

k_man

Can you click on the auto-suggested email address, and then get an option to delete?

tizerbelle

Si_Clist said:

Thanks.  At least that's enabled me to stop Google automatically adding further email addresses to my "contacts" list.

However, unless I've missed something in the article to which you kindly linked, there's no mention of how to delete auto-suggestions of addresses which are not in my "contacts" list and it's those that are the PITA.  Some of them must be at least three years old!  I can't even work out where they're stored, never mind how to delete them ...

When you say they aren't in your contacts list - do you mean in Google Contacts? Have you accessed google contacts online and looked in the Other Contacts folder - just above the Bin folder?

Si_Clist

tizerbelle said:

... Have you accessed google contacts online and looked in the Other Contacts folder - just above the Bin folder?

Hurrah!!!!!!          

At last!  Thank you so much for that.  There were dozens of them which are now deleted, and I've changed the settings so that it doesn't automatically save new ones, so that's a major vexation gone.

tizerbelle

Si_Clist said:

Hurrah!!!!!!          

At last!  Thank you so much for that.  There were dozens of them which are now deleted, and I've changed the settings so that it doesn't automatically save new ones, so that's a major vexation gone.

 Good to hear that solved it.