Hi Mark, Remember, iOS is designed primarily to be a touch-screen interface. The way it handles email is different from what you are use to on the Mac.
Your message list shows messages by subject. You can do some basic tweaking in settings, mail contacts and calendar. This tweaking determines how many messages to have in the inbox, should messages be grouped by conversations (messages with the same subject line), what you want your signature to say, archive or delete gmail messages, and so forth. When you double or split tap on a message subject, it will either open the message, or open the messages which have the same subject line. Note: I have an iPhone, not an iPad, so I do not have access to the split screen and containers. When in a message, you can delete, move, or reply to the message. Under reply you will find reply, reply all, forward, and print. When not in a message, if your rotor is set to actions (iOS 6 or later), use a single finger vertical flick to select delete, double tap with one finger, and the message will be deleted. The other choice is default action, which opens the message or conversation. If you wish to go through and select several messages for deletion at one time, double tap on edit. Now, when you double tap a message, it is selected, rather than opened. After selecting all the messages you wish to effect, find and activate the delete button or the move button. There is no select all command except in the trash folder. You move through the list of messages/conversations using the right or left flicks. Three finger vertical swipes move you up or down a page of messages at a time. You can also slide your finger down the vertical list of messages to have VO announce the subjects. I suspect that double tap on a message brings up the text in the right-hand pane. If you have hints turned on, and have preview turned on, VO will speak the first couple lines of the selected message when you touch or swipe to it (iOS 6 or above). As for your old messages in gmail, mail will continue presenting them until you archive/delete them. I have thousands of messages to clear out this way because I used POP and saved all messages on the server. I have now changed gmail's handling behaviour for messages, but need to clean out several years of this previous setting. I now use IMAP rather than POP, and changed the archive all messages on the server to delete messages that are deleted. Once I clear out all those older messages, the behaviour will cease. David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA Email: [email protected] Mobile: +64 21 2288 288 Sent from my iPhone On 19/01/2013, at 8:36, Mark BurningHawk <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, folks: > > Thanks to all who've been very helpful to me so far in learning the Ipad 3. > Today, I charged it via the USB cable to my MBP15, and it came up in Itunes > just as it should. I authorized backup over WIFI now, too, so the hard > connection won't be necessary. > > Now, I understand that the Ipad was backed up to my computer (Though I > cannot find this backup anywhere through Finder). What I wanted to do, > however, though, was sync all my contacts from the MTP 8ONTO* the Ipad, so > that it would know all my mail addresses, etc. I have no evidence this was > done, or that it can be done. > > Also, I'm having a hard time making Mail perform in a way I understand. For > one thing, Gmail insists on showing me messages from June, 2011!, which I can > deal with, but I cannot figure out how to move quickly between messages, > either in list or in body (I'd prefer to navigate by the "regard,ing," > subject line column), and I don't understand how to select all and delete > them from my Inbox when I'm dong. > > Is there a podcast I can inhale on how Mail works in IOS6? > > My last question would be how to get audio books or music from the Macbook > ONTO the Pad, assumedly through Itunes, manually? I have 86GB of music and > only 27GB free on the Ipad. :) > > Thanks, all! > > > • Mark BurningHawk Baxter > • AIM, Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 > • MSN: [email protected] > • My home page: > • http://MarkBurningHawk.net/ > > Mark BurningHawk > Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 > Home page: Http://MarkBurningHawk.net/ > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
