Yes, the all mail folder can be safely hidden. Every email message is given a label. When you change the emails folder, what is actually changed is the label which is assigned to the message.
David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA Email: dchitten...@gmail.com Mobile: +64 21 2288 288 Sent from my iPhone > On 22 Jan 2014, at 7:24, "Christina C." <blindmaclo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I am not having any problems at all with gmail. Despite the suggestion that > you not hide the all mail folder…mine is hidden from apple mail. I have no > idea why, but this has not caused me any problems whatsoever. I also delete > instead of archive any unwanted mail. If it’s an email I want to save I just > move it to a folder/label called “filed” and this seems to work for me if I > don't’ want an email in my inbox but I might want to access it later. > > If only showing 1000 messages fixes your problem than maybe you could use > safari and the gmail website to search for an old email? Or maybe even though > you only show 1000 messages when you do a search it will search all > messages??? I do not know. Maybe someone else here has a suggestion on > accessing old emails. > > A long time ago I wanted to get rid of tons of unwanted emails so I created > folders in apple mail to the on my mac instead of in the gmail portion of the > side bar in apple mail. I don’t know how to explain that one, except to say > that the folders were on my computer’s hard drive instead of syncing with > gmail. then I went to gmails’ website and cleaned everything up except for > the newest incoming messages. Then I went back to apple mail and moved the > emails from my hard drive back to the appropriate folders in my gmail > account. It was a crazy time but that was how I got rid of all the years and > years of unwanted emails but I still was able to keep the ones that I wanted. > It wasn’t a perfect solution but it worked for me. It was a couple of years > ago and I don’t remember all the details. So I don’t remember exactly > everything I did so I hope I am not leading you astray. I am absolutely no > expert of any kind, very very far from it. I just cannot put my finger on why > some are having major problems and some are not. The one thing I know I do > different than a lot of people is that I do not Archive, I delete emails. > > Christina > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
