If you have a third party email unitlty (Thunderbird, etc.), most of these have a "trash box". When you delete an email from either the "In Box" or "Sent Box" it goes to the trash box. To complete a deletion, go to the trash box and delete. Items deleted from the trash box are gone. This is a neat feature. For example, if you deleted a message while reading it in the "In Box" and then later wanted to retrieve it. you can. Merely move to the trash box, select the message and "Move" it to another box.

OK you obviously know where the files are on the computer, we'll assume here they are in My Documents/Clippings. This means they are all in a sub folder of My Documents in the folder Clippings. Right click the Start button click Explore in the pop up and a new window appears - Windows Explorer On the left side near the top look for My Documents click the small plus + sign beside it and other folders that are inside that folder now show underneath click the Clippings folder and all the contents now appear on the right side of your screen. To select those to delete one at a time simply right click on any file in the right side and in the pop up click Delete. Confirm and it is gone. To delete more than one at a time hold down the CTRL button on the keyboard then click each item to be deleted so it becomes highlighted. When ready release the CTRL button, right click on any highlighted file and click Delete in the pop up. Confirm. To delete a contiguous batch click the first one to be deleted to highlight it, hold down the Shift key and click the last one to be selected. Now all those in between are highlighted, right click on any one of those and click Delete in the pop up. Confirm. Done, assuming that is what you want.

Thanks very much for the advice. We did notify the friend right away (fortunately, without (forwarding anything), just in case, but in the process of getting the software for my husband, our young friend had taken over his i-Pad--no doubt as a kindness to "the elderly," done all the necessary things for him, and in the process given someone his birth date and email address. He doesn't know if she gave them to the coffee shop so as to use its WiFi, or to the company offering the free software. Knowing that public WiFi can be dangerous, I assume that his email address had been intercepted and used in a phishing attempt or perhaps to install malware. Many years ago, I got the Hiloti virus by clicking on a PDF notice purporting to be from UPS about being unable to deliver a package--just on the day I was expecting one. Wouldn't have clicked on the PDF if it weren't for that. The minute I clicked on the Adobe PDF file that claimed to contain the details of what to do to claim my package, poof, it disappeared and my PC subsequently went haywire. I really learned my lesson, and now we are careful to check with the sender if anything is the least suspicious. I didn't know it could be dangerous for us to forward such an email, but would have phoned the friend in advance to make sure she didn't click on anything. Full scans using both Norton and Trend Micro's House Call failed to detect anything dangerous, so with that and your kind answer, I guess I can sleep tonight! Thank you for the link to the tips, too. I will read and save them.

If they are using the app it's on the right. Mary Open the Facebook app. Tap the three lines towards the right of the top navigation bar. Scroll down and tap Settings & Privacy Tap Settings from the expanded menu. Scroll down and tap Account Ownership and Control.