Mail is archived by moving it into the archive folder. Even archived mail remains in the all mail folder. There is actually just one folder. Other folders are labels that are placed on each message.
David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA Email: dchitten...@gmail.com Mobile: +64 21 2288 288 Sent from my iPhone > On 22 Jan 2014, at 7:01, Daniel Hawkins <computersassocia...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I was wondering, how do you Archive mail on a Mac, and how to view Archive > mail? > > Thanks! > Daniel Hawkins > - Posted from my Macbook Pro > > 2012 15in. Macbook Pro > 2.3 Quad-core i7 > 4GB DDR3 > 500GB HDD > > Dual Boot: > Windows 7 Ultimate Edition 64-bit > >> On Jan 21, 2014, at 10:45 AM, Robert C <gone.to.da...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> If you delete mail from All Mail, you will delete everything that is in >> the inbox, deleted, drafts, sent. So if you do not move or archive mail >> outside the gmail account, its gone. >> >> I use message filters (not using Mac Mail yet, still on Windows) but gmail >> is gmail. Before I dump All Mail, I look at the sent folder to see what I >> want to archive. Then I delete mail from All Mail which takes care of the >> other mentioned folders. I do this weekly. >> >> Quote of the nanosecond . . . >> The great majority of us are required to live a life of constant duplicity. >> Your health is bound to be affected if, day after day, you say the opposite >> of what you feel, if you grovel before what you dislike, and rejoice at what >> brings you nothing but misfortune. >> --Boris Pasternak >> Robert & Dreamer Doll ke7nwn >> E-mail- >> gone.to.da...@gmail.com >> >>> On 1/21/2014 7:15 AM, Brian Fischler wrote: >>> Hey Nicholas, >>> >>> Bingo I think you hit the problem right on the head, as I just looked at >>> this all mail folder and there are 96,000 messages in it. What the heck is >>> this folder, as I looked and there are emails I deleted years ago. Is there >>> a way to manage this folder in any settings or get some sighted assistance >>> to purge some mail on the gmail website. Where do I find the activity menu >>> to see what mail is doing? Will explore around for it, but not sure where >>> it is. Thanks, >>>> On Jan 21, 2014, at 1:09 AM, Nicholas Parsons >>>> <mr.nicholas.pars...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi Bryan, >>>> >>>> First thing, about how many messages altogether do you have in gMail? >>>> Meaning in your All Mail folder. If it's in the tens of thousands, or >>>> hundreds of thousands, then I think I know what the problem is. >>>> >>>> Second, is your All Mail folder enabled for IMAP? It should be. >>>> >>>> I by no means an expert on this issue—I don't think anybody is. There >>>> seems to be lots of different issues and neither Apple or much of the tech >>>> community seems to really know or agree on what's going on. But what I >>>> think is happening is that Mavericks Mail has to re-download and >>>> reconfigure every message you have in gMail. Most of us have plenty of >>>> messages, easily in the tens of thousands, and some people even have >>>> hundreds of thousands. So when you launch Mail after recently installing >>>> Mavericks, if you show the activity window with command-option-0, you'll >>>> notice that Mail is busy accessing the gMail server and checking and >>>> downloading all your messages. Even for a reasonably small account this >>>> can take a long time. I left my Mac online with Mail running but nothing >>>> else for a couple of days. This seemed to allow it to get up and running. >>>> So I'd suggest you close every application and stop as many other online >>>> services as you can from operating, then just open Mail and leave >> your Mac online for a good long time. Meaning at least 24 hours. Just leave >> it, and don't do anything else with it, certainly not with Mail. Configure >> your energy preferences so your Mac doesn't go to sleep. Check the Mail >> activity every few hours to check that it's making progress. If it seems to >> have frozen, quit it and re-launch. >>>> >>>> Best of luck, >>>> Nic >>>> >>>>> On 21 Jan 2014, at 12:04 pm, Brian Fischler <blindga...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Hey all, >>>>> >>>>> Would love any advice from those of you not having any problems with >>>>> Gmail and Macmail. After a day and a half of everything working fine, I >>>>> had my busy busy problems again. I called Apple and spoke to their >>>>> VoiceOver people and they kept insisting that my problem wasn’t a gmail >>>>> and mac mail problem. I connected via remote session with Apple, and the >>>>> specialist was claiming my issue was caused by my other mail account from >>>>> go daddy. It took us a good hour to check settings, and mail was >>>>> constantly caught in a busy loop, after that did nothing, I did a system >>>>> repair which Apple felt would fix the mail busy issue. I am not going to >>>>> go in to the bad set of instructions that Apple gave me for a VoiceOVer >>>>> user to do a repair. So the repair finally finishes and as soon as I >>>>> launch mail, busy busy busy. I decided to delete my gmail account from >>>>> mail to see if mail worked with just my go daddy account, and sure enough >>>>> mail worked fine, so bingo it is definitely a gmail problem. What an >> gers me so much is Apple’s claim that the fix they released in December >> fixed the gmail and mac mail issue. The whole reason I held off upgrading to >> Mavericks was because of the gmail issue. Not sure how they can claim the >> issue is fixed when it is obviously gmail causing my problem. >>>>> >>>>> I do have a ton of email in gmail that I keep saved in folders, but this >>>>> was never an issue with gmail and Lion. Does anyone have any suggestions? >>>>> I deleted all my trash in mac mail, and this did nothing either. 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