Andy - Zack pointed out that messages moved to Trash don't appear elsewhere in Gmail, and you've reemphasized that fact. I wasn't aware of it, and it's undoubtedly where my misunderstanding and "problem" began.
I do Archive emails, as I wrote in my last note to the group. For the rest, even though I needed to ask the question about disappearing emails,I am a person of average intelligence. Perhaps that didn't some through in my earlier notes. I'm hoping that I was just careless when I checked Trash and didn't find "lost" emails in past weeks, and that a more careful search of Trash will solve any future problems. You're right - I do know about the 6 month limit for Trash. Bill On Sun, Feb 8, 2015 at 8:22 AM, Andy <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Feb 8, 2015 at 8:17 AM, bill hansen <[email protected]> > wrote: > > .. >> . The tip that these Group emails are automatically put in Trash, but >> they are not stored in Sent Mail, Starred, Important, Drafts, etc.... as >> Zack says, that doesn't seem to make sense, >> ... >> > > Anything that is in Trash (or Spam) does not appear in any of your other > Labels, Sent Mail, etc. That is how Gmail works. Yes, they might have > those Labels attached to them, but Gmail excludes them from ordinary > searches. You only see deleted messages when you look in Trash (or when a > search includes in:trash or in:anywhere). > > I "delete" these group messages for the same reason I "delete" most other >> group messages. I get about 70-100 email messages a day (not a lot by the >> standards of many people, but still quite a few). If I left all of them on >> my Gmail Inbox, in a couple of days they'd be buried. >> > > If you don't want them in your Inbox, then take them out of your Inbox: > Archive them! You don't need to delete them. There is no reason to fill > your Inbox with everything you ever want to keep. That is what the Archive > button is for. > > Archive = Keep this message but get it out of the Inbox. > > I routinely Archive every message the moment I read it, unless it needs > further attention. > > I also Archive a lot of messages I haven't yet read, but don't want to > throw out just yet. > > Messages which I want to keep for a very long time, months or longer, I >> Move to Archived Mail, where I file them under one (or more) of several >> subcategories. >> > > Archiving does NOT move a message to some sort of different storage. The > only thing it does, is make it not be in the Inbox anymore. It does not > affect its appearance in All Mail, Sent Mail, Starred, any of your Labels > ... nor your ability to search for it. > > >> I'm positive that I didn't accidentally empty the Trash, as such. All the >> other Trash is there. But now I know that I have to be much more careful >> about checking Trash on the few occasions when I need to go back to a Group >> email I've sent. >> > > You know about the 30-day limit, where deleted messages vaporize. > > I'm not clear how your sent messages were deleted in the first place. > Did you manually delete each one after you sent it? Or do you have a > Filter that somehow recognizes when you've sent a message to a certain > group of people, and auto-deletes it? > > In any event, I would think that any message you have sent, is a good > thing to keep around and never delete. Unless you are filling up your 15GB. > > 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/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 [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/d/optout.
