On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 9:03 AM, Sam Michel <[email protected]> wrote: ...
> in:inbox label:Finance > > will show me everything tagged Finance in the inbox, however this doesn't > work: > > in:inbox label:Projects-Some-Client > Searching for sub-labels usually works for me. However, here's the problem. Labels are attached to messages, and searches search for messages. But they are displayed in Conversations. A Conversation might *appear* to have more than one Label, or have a Label and be in the Inbox (Inbox is just another Label), but it's possible that there is no one message in that Conversation that has both Labels at the same time! So a search for both Labels could turn up nothing. In your example, perhaps only the first message has the Projects-Some-Client sub-label, and perhaps only the last message in the conversation has the Inbox label, because all the older ones were archived already. I think there is no good way around this, except to make sure you have Filters that attach your user labels to every possible message that needs one, both incoming and outgoing. This has nothing to do with sub-labels. The same thing can happen with top-level labels. Just the same, whenever I want to be certain about the exact incantation for searching for a sub-label, I click on the label itself first, which puts the correct form into the search window near the top of the screen. Then I can copy-and-paste it somewhere else. 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.
