One of my gmail accounts won't show in my mail app

Sorry, not iOS, the MAC operating system. I am not a techie, just a pretty low level user obviously. I went through the prompts in the “settings” to add a Google account as I did with all my others. The account shows as added in my settings. It’s in the list in the mail settings window. It just doesn’t show in the mail app itself. So it seems to have been added successfully, because when I go to add it, it says that it’s already there (in settings)

jill

They are on my iPhone. But that particular Google account won't show in the side bar of my Mail App on my Mac so I can't see the messages without going into my web browser and opening up Gmail on the web. And the Gmail account is showing in my settings (on my Mac) as having been successfully added. I have tried going through the same steps to "re-add" the account but in settings it tells me that it already exists. But I can't see it's inbox on that sidebar where the inboxes for the other accounts are.

I am looking at all the inboxes, I have two other gmail inboxes. They are showing up fine. So is my iCloud inbox, and so is my yahoo inbox. This one just stubbornly refuses to appear even though the settings shows it in that list. It's perplexing.

Jill

Okay, found something interesting.... I found a folder down in one of my other email accounts (one of the other gmails) labeled by the email address of the new work account (which is a gmail based address). The folder is empty, so nothing is coming through obviously. But why did it somehow become a folder inside one of my other email accounts instead of an actual inbox of it's own? I guess I need to remove it and try again.

Okay, I did that and it appeared once I did it.

I guess "Turn it off and back on again" kind of works (Or just do it over).

I'm sure I was doing something silly.

Jill