ok On Monday, September 5, 2011 at 5:19:23 PM UTC-5, Stryker wrote: > > Hi folks, I'm having some issues with my labels, I'm not sure if it's me > thinking all screwy or if this is an actual issue, but I hope you folks can > tell me. > > Essentially what I am having issues with is when I add a nested label (or > several) to a parent label, the emails from the nested labels don't show up > when I click on the parent label. Here's a quick example. > > Social Media > -Facebook > -Notifications > -Requests > -Fishville > -Groups > -Care2Action > -Gmail Rocks > -Twitter > -Tweets > -Requests > > Hope that shows up properly on your ends. :/ Anywhoo. it makes sense to me > that when I click on "Social Media", I would see everything nested under it > (ie. All emails from all my Social Media accounts). If I were to click on > "Notifications", I would see all emails under "Requests" and "Fishville". > The same would apply if I were to click on "Facebook", I would expect to > see all the emails I've ever received from Facebook. > > I just deleted all my old labels, which were a mess, and I am starting > from scratch. The way I am setting it up is to make new label/s from my > inbox using the appropriate drop down menus (or if the label already > exists, skip to the next part), and then I check the email I want to put > there, click more, and apply filter. I set up the filter accordingly, > perform a test search, select "Apply Label" and select the relevant nested > label, check the "Include all other conversations shown below" box, and hit > save. <---- Let's say I was organizing my Fishville emails there. > > While this takes care of adding those emails to the appropriate label > without a hitch (clicking on "Fishville" shows all my Fishville emails), > any parent labels or sub-parent labels (ie. "Facebook" and "Notifications") > will show a blank window with the message "There are no conversations > with this label." > > Sorry for the overkill on the explanation, I just wanted to make sure you > folks understood what I was think so you tell me if I'm properly crazy for > expecting Gmail to behave like a standard file explorer or if something > really is wrong. Many thanks for any help you can provide. > >
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