On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 6:02 PM, APB <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm trying to figure out how to isolate conversations which have only 1
> message in them.
>
I think there is no automatic way to do THAT. FYI.
All the conversations in question are assigned a label by a filter. (Let's
> call the label "ABC".)
>
> As I read the new conversations, I manually assign an additional label to
> them. (Let's call it "XYZ".)
>
> It seems to me that if I search for "label:ABC -{label:XYZ}", I should see
> only the ABC conversations which do not have the XYZ label, but it's not
> working.
>
> It appears that when a new message arrives in one of the conversations
> I've labeled XYZ, it sort of overrides the XYZ label, so that my search
> does not exclude the conversation.
>
That's because the new message doesn't have the XYZ label yet, so it
matches your search.
This is the way messages and conversations work. Labels are attached to
messages, not to conversations. When you do a search, it searches for
messages that meet your search criteria. If you have conversation view
enabled, it delivers the results to you in conversations. Other messages
that are in the same conversation with ones that match your search, will
"go along for the ride".
You can disable this by turning conversation view OFF. Then you will no
longer see those messages that have the XYZ label already.
But labels are applied to whole conversations, not just individual
> messages, are they not?
>
They are not. They are applied to messages.
When you manually add them, they might attach to every message in the
displayed conversation; but just the same, all labels are attached to
messages.
1. Removing a label is more work than adding one;
>
That's odd that you say that, because I find it's exactly the opposite.
Removing a label is as easy as clicking on the "x" next to the label's
name, at the top of the message.
If you do the drop-down menu method, again it is easier to remove one than
adding one because the label you want to remove is right there at the top
of the list, and you don't need to scroll down to find the new label you
want to add, or type it in manually.
Regards,
Andy
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