Thanks Jeff - but my problem isn't that I want to delete only part of an email, or that I don't understand what "delete" means. My problem is that the email simply disappears. It's not in Trash, All Mail, Spam, Archived Mail, or (of course) not in the InBox.
If I were prescient enough that I knew, every single time, that I'd want to return to an email on a later day, I could Archive each email I receive into a separate folder - but that would obviously entail far too many "folders". And I don't have that much foreknowledge, to recognize each and every email I'd need to look at on a later day. I'd better repeat that this disappearance happens only with emails which are part of a thread, and with emails which have been forwarded. When I "delete" a simple one-transaction email it goes into Trash or Spam, as it should.. Hasn't anybody else had this problem? Bill On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 7:30 PM, Jeff Grossman <j...@stikman.com> wrote: > Bill, > When you hit the delete button, it will delete the whole conversation, not > just the message you are looking at. To only delete a single message in a > conversation you need to hit the arrow to the right of the Reply button on > that message and there is an option to delete this message. > > Jeff > > On Mon, Jul 17, 2017 at 5:25 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.
