Gmail and Mac Mail multiple issues, where are ALL the mail folders

I don't have any rules and yup trash gets deleted not archived, I am amazed that email that I send to the trash goes to bin then I deleted it from there and they magically reappear in the inbox or archive folder. I was just getting a couple of shots to show you examples and I figured something out. Often to find the 'piles' of email I wish to delete I use the search function. It appears deleting them when they are search results makes them magically reappear but if I actually go to the archive folder or inbox and scroll to the email from the date etc it stays gone, how weird is that! I have captured a couple of shots to give you an idea of the issue though. The good news is I did manage to delete the ones that advised they were sent in 1921!

Thanks for your help I will move those folders and see what happens. :-)

Hi thanks for reply, great to know it should work, have I listed all the places I will find mail correctly or are there more? Problems with macmail are its constantly ‘moving’ mail which is a known issue for some users and is under action by engineers but I also have emails I cant delete and multiple copies of emails (sometimes 100 ‘Draft’ copies) Which reappear if I delete them. The gmail server and the mac have partially synced so some emails are on server but not all so no way of knowing. It says I have 13k of flagged messages but you go into the flagged folder and there are none. Tried flagging all mail and then removing flags but still ghosts of 13k. Thanks for asking and the reply too :-)

Unfortunately I copied and pasted the two folders I thought contained everything but obviously they didnt as about 100k of email is missing. I will have to go hunting for more folders to have another go. But at least the email still worked so folder copying is probably the answer, just need to find the other folder or folders. Thanks :-)

Its a 70GB file going onto a USB 2 drive so I will update Tomorrow LOL, but its very promising :-)