Archiving does not hide messages. It doesn't send them to a separate storage area. ALL it does is remove the Inbox label. It doesn't change anything else, so "archived" messages can appear (right along with non-archived messages) in your "folders" -- er, labels.
You can set up filters to archive new messages while simultaneously giving them labels. You can also arrange to archive only your messages that have labels, by first doing a search for "has:userlabels", then select all, and archive them. Be aware that if you have Conversation view turned on, you can have messages in a conversation that have labels along with messages that have none, so a search does not yield ONLY those messages that exactly match the search criteria, unless you turn conversation view off. I have no idea why you get a message regarding "N message(s) deleted" when you send a message. I think that shouldn't happen. Maybe your Gmail cache got corrupted, so try clearing your browser's cache and cookies. Andy -- 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gmail-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
