I'll try it. I'll get some family members to start a couple of short threads with me, and I'll also Forward a couple of emails to them. I'll be pleasantly surprised if it works. The emails I've mentioned (threads, forwarded emails) are never in All Mail, which is where Archived mail goes.
On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 12:56 PM, Kenneth Ayers <justkenn...@gmail.com> wrote: > Would your issue be resolved if you simply archived emails rather than > deleting them? Your missing emails issue still needs to be understood but I > would suggest archiving them in any case, especially if that solves the > problem > > On Tue, Jul 18, 2017, 8:59 AM billhansen <billhansen2...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Disappearing emails are a serious problem, and I can't figure out where >> they go, or how to retrieve them. I know this has been discussed on the >> forum in the past, but I'm still having a lot of trouble with it. This >> doesn't seem to occur during the primary email exchange, but when a thread >> is created, or when an email has been forwarded, the results seem to >> disappear. The first Reply to me will show up - but if I "delete" that >> Reply (that is, if I put it in Trash) it's gone, apparently forever. The >> resulting emails are nowhere to be found - not in Spam, not in Trash, not >> in All Mail. Gmail Searches don't help. At first I thought I could make >> some sort of Filter or Rule which would prevent the disappearances, but >> either I don't know the magic words to use when creating the Filter (Rule), >> or maybe it's impossible. >> >> Bill Hansen >> Ihaca NY USA >> >> -- >> 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 gmail-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to gmail-users@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at https://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 gmail-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to gmail-users@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://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 gmail-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to gmail-users@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/gmail-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.