It definitely makes more sense that this workaround is more of a hack than a designed plan. I can't imagine any engineer making people do all that just to delete a filtered collection of records. That's like index management 101...  Anyway - I'm all set now. Thanks for the help! ... View more

OK - I stumbled through this very long way to do something otherwise simple. We shouldn't need to create a new list specifically for the purpose of deleting the things we put into it so we can then immediately delete the list itself. See how much extra nonsense there is in that?   I do realize I'm frustrated and ESP raging (lol), but do appreciate your help.   So in the future, since I'll be doing this cleaning quite regularly, and CC has no substantive cleaning tools really, what's the best way to export my contacts, clean them, get back a CLEAN list, and then bring them back into CC for comparing and purging those that are not clean?   You don't need to answer, but I do appreciate your help - either way ... View more

I don't really follow that but I'll try to walk through it. I tried removing them from lists but the previous user managing these made like 40 lists and of course I can't remove them from ALL LISTS as I should be able to... Last time I tried deleting from a segment it only offered to delete the segment. ... View more

Then I'll lose the years of engagement records I have with them. This is backwards. I should be able to partition by criteria like date, field value, list, segment, tag, etc. then select all and delete - done. simple. ... View more

Ya I didn't import the ones I want to delete - those are gone from my external list. I reimported the ones I want to KEEP.  Now I just want to delete the rest. Should be simple, but I can find no way.  ... View more

Is there really no way to either make a list, or a segment or use a tag to select all the contacts that match that criteria and mass delete them?  I've been fighting with trying to do this now for like an hour.  It's kind of crazy.   I exported my entire list and ran them through a cleaner service. My list has been inactive for a bit and I don't want to email a bunch of old and now bad addresses. Out of that cleaning service I was provided a new list about 85% of my old list.    I uploaded it again and now tagged the contacts that were updated with a special tag, something like "Cleaned110424". It would seem I should be able to either simply open them using the tag or segment them using the tag and then use that partitioning to DELETE the contacts...    Are all these things really impossible in CC? I've used maybe 4 other of the giant ESP services and I've never been so blocked from simply deleting contacts before, so this is kind of baffling.   Thanks ... View more