sorry to be a bit late on replying LOL, but i have wonder the same question. After experimenting, this is how you do it. When you bring down the search menu filters. In the "has words" box type in:
label:-Facebook OR label:-notifications OR label:-requests.... etc.... Now once you click on Social Media, all those nested labels will appear on the parent label. let me know if it works if you ever respond back 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. > > -- 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.
