I've had Gmail since it was Invite-Only, and I have yet to pass 50% of its capacity. I don't delete emails - I archive them, and if it turns out later that I need to find them, I can search for them (Google's speciality) or if I suspect ahead if time I might want to get back to that email, I filter it and apply a label that is logical to my mindset. Right now I have over 200 labels displayed on the left margin - more that are hidden because I never use them. I never need to look through them, I simply type"g" "l" and it opens a label search for me.
On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 7:51 AM, bill hansen <billhansen2...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. > -- 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.
