Gmail has a couple settings which are initially set in a confusing way. One of these settings is archive all mail. This is the default setting. It means, whenever an email is deleted, Gmail places the archive label on the message. For some reason, when Apple mail first sees these old messages, it assigns them back to the original inbox folder. I ended up with over 140,000 email messages since 2005.
The solution is: go to www.gmail.com and log-in to your gmail account. Find the preferences or settings page (I do not remember what it is called), and locate the how to handle deleted messages. Change this setting from permanently archive to delete. Another setting found in this area is POP3 or IMAP. These are checkboxes, so Gmail can be set to do both at the same time. I used to do this, but found occasional headaches from it, so changed everything to IMAP. I am currently in the process of deleting all my older messages. I occasionally sort out important messages during the process. I am doing this on my iPhone as the mail interface makes more sense to me. I am down to 44,000 messages at this point. David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA Email: dchitten...@gmail.com Mobile: +64 21 2288 288 Sent from my iPhone > On 22 Jan 2014, at 4:15, Brian Fischler <blindga...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hey Nicholas, > > Bingo I think you hit the problem right on the head, as I just looked at this > all mail folder and there are 96,000 messages in it. What the heck is this > folder, as I looked and there are emails I deleted years ago. Is there a way > to manage this folder in any settings or get some sighted assistance to purge > some mail on the gmail website. Where do I find the activity menu to see what > mail is doing? Will explore around for it, but not sure where it is. Thanks, >> On Jan 21, 2014, at 1:09 AM, Nicholas Parsons >> <mr.nicholas.pars...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hi Bryan, >> >> First thing, about how many messages altogether do you have in gMail? >> Meaning in your All Mail folder. If it's in the tens of thousands, or >> hundreds of thousands, then I think I know what the problem is. >> >> Second, is your All Mail folder enabled for IMAP? It should be. >> >> I by no means an expert on this issue—I don't think anybody is. There seems >> to be lots of different issues and neither Apple or much of the tech >> community seems to really know or agree on what's going on. But what I think >> is happening is that Mavericks Mail has to re-download and reconfigure every >> message you have in gMail. Most of us have plenty of messages, easily in the >> tens of thousands, and some people even have hundreds of thousands. So when >> you launch Mail after recently installing Mavericks, if you show the >> activity window with command-option-0, you'll notice that Mail is busy >> accessing the gMail server and checking and downloading all your messages. >> Even for a reasonably small account this can take a long time. I left my Mac >> online with Mail running but nothing else for a couple of days. This seemed >> to allow it to get up and running. So I'd suggest you close every >> application and stop as many other online services as you can from >> operating, then just open Mail and leave your Mac online for a good long >> time. Meaning at least 24 hours. Just leave it, and don't do anything else >> with it, certainly not with Mail. Configure your energy preferences so your >> Mac doesn't go to sleep. Check the Mail activity every few hours to check >> that it's making progress. If it seems to have frozen, quit it and re-launch. >> >> Best of luck, >> Nic >> >>> On 21 Jan 2014, at 12:04 pm, Brian Fischler <blindga...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Hey all, >>> >>> Would love any advice from those of you not having any problems with Gmail >>> and Macmail. After a day and a half of everything working fine, I had my >>> busy busy problems again. I called Apple and spoke to their VoiceOver >>> people and they kept insisting that my problem wasn’t a gmail and mac mail >>> problem. I connected via remote session with Apple, and the specialist was >>> claiming my issue was caused by my other mail account from go daddy. It >>> took us a good hour to check settings, and mail was constantly caught in a >>> busy loop, after that did nothing, I did a system repair which Apple felt >>> would fix the mail busy issue. I am not going to go in to the bad set of >>> instructions that Apple gave me for a VoiceOVer user to do a repair. So the >>> repair finally finishes and as soon as I launch mail, busy busy busy. I >>> decided to delete my gmail account from mail to see if mail worked with >>> just my go daddy account, and sure enough mail worked fine, so bingo it is >>> definitely a gmail problem. What angers me so much is Apple’s claim that >>> the fix they released in December fixed the gmail and mac mail issue. The >>> whole reason I held off upgrading to Mavericks was because of the gmail >>> issue. Not sure how they can claim the issue is fixed when it is obviously >>> gmail causing my problem. >>> >>> I do have a ton of email in gmail that I keep saved in folders, but this >>> was never an issue with gmail and Lion. Does anyone have any suggestions? I >>> deleted all my trash in mac mail, and this did nothing either. 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