I’ve been using Gmail for more than a decade. I literally have thousands upon thousands of emails. Why is there not an easier method of viewing ONLY the archived messages? Clicking on “All Mail” shows everything. How is that helpful in my case? Using the search “has:nouserlabels” provides zero help as How to remove Avast email signature from my email it still shows all emails with the Inbox label set. Again, there’s absolutely no way to find these emails that I accidentally swiped on over the years.
For as much as I love Google and the Android platform, they create some ridiculously stupid “features” that make me want to start considering other platforms (i.e. Apple).
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JOE BIGLERDECEMBER , 2021 AT 9:26 PM
I am running into the same problem. I just got off the Google support chat. The tech did not know the archived emails were in All Mail. He asked me to go to mail.google.com. I clicked his link and it took me there, but closed the chat window. I Google missing archive folder on Android. That is when I found out about them being in All Mail with no way to filter them. Going back to Outlook to see if that works.
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JESUS UFEBRUARY 3, 2022 AT 3:27 AM
in the search field type “in:archive” (without quotes )and you will see only archived emails
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TOMSEPTEMBER 8, 2021 AT :2 PM
I have over 15,000 Gmails in “All Mail”. About 13,000 of these were inadvertently “archived” over many years, when I really intended to “delete” them. (During those years I was totally unaware of the right-and-left swipe settings that apparently default to “archive”.)
So…is it true that there’s NO WAY to select ONLY my archived emails and delete them in bulk? Does Google really expect a user like me to select and delete 13,000 archived Gmails individually?
If so, this is something that Google has got to fix. How do I bring it to their attention?
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MESEPTEMBER 7, 2021 AT 6:31 PM
Gmail sux! Who would find these stupid labels useful? Give me folders. I thought it was deleting like every other program. Now there is absolutely no option for seeing all archived emails and ONLY archived ones. As soon as I forward important messages, I am done with this garbage.
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