Sharepoint 2010 - Deleting Items in the list

Hi,

I have a SharePoint list with around 4000 items. I would like to delete items in this list before Dec 2016. I was wondering if there is an easy way to achieve this.

FYI: I have a workflow associated with this.. If i delete an item, it sends an email to corresponding manager. So manual deletion will flood emails to managers.

Any help in this is greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Microsoft SharePoint

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Walter Curtis

8/22/2022 - Mon

Walter Curtis

3/15/2017

There are a few ways to handle this -

Deactivate the email from the workflow and use that. But do you have to run that on each item separately?

PowerShell could do this for you.

Depends on how much data in the list since Dec 2016 and how complex the list is, but you could save the list as a template, then delete the list thereby delete all of the data, then recreate the list and import the data. If the list is simple, you could save the data you need to save by doing an export to excel.

Hope that helps...

LioElectronic

3/15/2017

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Hi Walter,

I have around 4000 items in the list and around 3000 to be deleted. I have already archived the list by exporting it to excel. Now I would like to delete data older than Jan 2017.
I was wondering if anyone has power shell script to achieve this.
Thanks,

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