Jonathan,
Yes, I’ve found them in the archives, which I would expect, as gmail works that
way. However the menu and keyboard functions to move from junk to inbox are
just non-functional. I don’t have a non-gmail account to use for a test,
however.
Dave Carlson
Farfar, Oregonian, Engineer, Musician, Woodworker, and Pioneer
On Feb 24, 2026, at 4:44 AM, Jonathan Cohn <[email protected]> wrote:
Are you sure it is not in your archive? It would be interesting to know what
the Gmail web application thinks is the status of the message. If you want to
invest age, try going to https://mail.google.com/ and then searching for the
message. Bring it up and reply with the labels that google has the message
associated with.
Gmail does not internally use a folder like structure, so IMAP which does think
of email as having folders can on occasion act strangely. This is especially
the case if you ever followed instructions to make older Macintosh Mail
software work more saintly with Gmail by modifying IMAP settings for Gmail in
the past. I believe I sent a message to MacVIsionaries about 10 years ago with
an article from Tidbits.com giving ways to make mail work better with Gmail.
All of those issues were corrected directly by Google and Apple in the
following year.
> On Feb 24, 2026, at 12:24 AM, Dave Carlson <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Grad,
>
> I just tried this, and it did not work. The message that was in junk did not
> go back to my inbox. It is gone, gone, gone… Glad I used a message that I
> didn’t care about.
>
> This message was received in my gmail account, if that has any bearing. And I
> was not able to find a way on the Mac to mark it as “not junk” as I had
> suggested earlier. That options is not there. Have no idea where that message
> went. I checked all my trash and junk folders, as well as all my inboxes.
>
> I think this is a bug.
>
>
> Dave Carlson
> Farfar, Oregonian, Engineer, Musician, Woodworker, and Pioneer
>
> On Feb 23, 2026, at 9:09 PM, Bradford Snyder <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Using the command CMD + Shift + J, marks and item as not Spam, and moves it
> to the Inbox.
>
> - Brad -
>
>
>
> On Feb 23, 2026, at 22:56, Dave Carlson <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Another thought on this, as I have also lost a message or two in the past
> when accidentally pressing backspace inside, and deleting it.
>
> Rather than moving it from junk to the inbox, it might be important first to
> mark it as not junk, then move it. It’s possible tha message will not go to
> the inbox if it is still marked as junk.
>
>
> Dave Carlson
> Farfar, Oregonian, Engineer, Musician, Woodworker, and Pioneer
>
> On Feb 23, 2026, at 5:59 PM, mr.robertcole via MacVisionaries
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Would you believe it just happened again?
> A email from one of my lists when to the Junk folder,
> I used the context menu and chose move to inbox. but it never made it there.
> It’s just gone.
> So if it’s something important, try to copy it to your Mac with
> command+Shift+S.
> Save as raw source.
> before moving it back to the inbox.
>
> Rob
>
>
>> On Feb 23, 2026, at 7:49 PM, mr.robertcole via MacVisionaries
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>> I have had the same problem.
>> Sometimes closing the mail app and reopen it can help.
>> And again I have never found the message.
>> It was lost in cyber space!
>>
>> Rob
>>
>>
>>> On Feb 23, 2026, at 3:28 PM, Lorie McCloud <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> sometimes I look through my junk mail and return things to the inbox that
>>> should have gone there. lately after having done this I can’t find them
>>> anywhere. they used to go into whichever inbox they were originally sent to
>>> but lately after clicking on all inboxes there’s a choice of which one to
>>> send them to and ever after doing that I can’t find them. I’m running
>>> Sequoia if that matters. suggestions please.
>>> Lorie
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