Bill, When you hit the delete button, it will delete the whole conversation, not just the message you are looking at. To only delete a single message in a conversation you need to hit the arrow to the right of the Reply button on that message and there is an option to delete this message.
Jeff On Mon, Jul 17, 2017 at 5:25 AM, billhansen <billhansen2...@gmail.com> wrote: > Disappearing emails are a serious problem, and I can't figure out where > they go, or how to retrieve them. I know this has been discussed on the > forum in the past, but I'm still having a lot of trouble with it. This > doesn't seem to occur during the primary email exchange, but when a thread > is created, or when an email has been forwarded, the results seem to > disappear. The first Reply to me will show up - but if I "delete" that > Reply (that is, if I put it in Trash) it's gone, apparently forever. The > resulting emails are nowhere to be found - not in Spam, not in Trash, not > in All Mail. Gmail Searches don't help. At first I thought I could make > some sort of Filter or Rule which would prevent the disappearances, but > either I don't know the magic words to use when creating the Filter (Rule), > or maybe it's impossible. > > Bill Hansen > Ihaca NY USA > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Gmail-Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to gmail-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to gmail-users@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/gmail-users. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Gmail-Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to gmail-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to gmail-users@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/gmail-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
