Hi Andy - Thanks for your thoughts, especially the info that most Gmail users never have the trouble I'm having. I should emphasize again that my Trash doesn't empty, except for that 30+ time period you mention. It's just the occasional email which is part of a thread, or which has been forwarded by me to someone else, which disappears.
I don't often do my email with my phone. I go through the bulk of it ( 10 to 50 emails a day) in the morning, and again in the late afternoon. Only when I'm waiting for a time-specific communication during the day do I use the phone for email (or when dear old Time-Warner/Spectrum drops internet access, which happens about twice a month). You're right, of course, that keeping every email on the desktop would prevent the situation I'm having. I do keep between 15 and 30 of individual emails on the desktop, because I know I'll need them repeatedly over the days or weeks (a particular bread recipe is one example). Many other emails which I know I'll need in the future are Archived in separate folders - Africa/Art/Boats/,Cell Phone/Computer etc. Right now there are 28 if those, some with sub-categories. It looks like I must be doing something odd with those individual emails which disappear. If I ever stumble upon what it is, I'll let the group know. I do recall that others have had this same problem. Bill On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 11:09 PM, Andy <ai.eg...@gmail.com> wrote: > Bill, the vast majority of Gmail users do not have problems with > disappearing emails. > > I have to wonder what is different about your situation, or with your use > of Gmail, that causes them to be emptied from the Trash, apparently without > your knowledge. I'm pretty sure there are no Gmail settings that would > ever cause it to purge (empty) the Trash automatically. > > Do you use a smartphone for access? > > I rarely ever delete messages in Gmail, except for spam, and test messages > to myself. There is no need to. At the moment I have several of those > sitting in Trash, waiting for them to time-out (30+ days). They never (to > my knowledge) mysteriously disappear before the 30 days are up. > > I think the easiest way to prevent messages from disappearing, would be to > not delete them! Then they would never find themselves in the Trash, which > is where the problem seems to be (the fact that they don't remain in the > Trash for 30+ days). There is no Filter that can stop you from deleting > your messages. > > 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 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.
