how do i remove archive folder in mail?

I found your post only after I thoroughly cleaned out my inbox. Then deleted all messages in the archive folder and instead of getting rid of them, google moved them all back into my inbox... a complete waste of time. I am going to stop using gmail, gradually switching over to my mac account entirely so that I have control over my mailbox.

HI all,

nothing to do with the way gmail works .. this is the easy fix.

go to settings .. then to mail, contact, calendar.

now select your gmail account, (i have more than one), then again click on "account"

on the bottom, select "advanced"

under discarded messages into, choose "deleted mailbox" instead of "archive mailbox"

done ...

If you are talking about the 'Archive' folder in the Mail.app, there is a way. You can be deleting a mail and whoops! - you archived it [adjacent icons] and the folder has no 'Delete' option. Try this. Shut down Mail. Go to: HD/Users/Home/Library/Mail/V3/821E9F56-FF80-469E-9369-1C53214FFF2B and find the Archive.mbox mailbox. Drag to the Trash, restart Mail and hey presto! - it's gone.

Tried that it didn't work. Did it on all my gmail accounts. Some didn't even show "Archive" The box is still there and still has over 10000 messages, slowing down mail.

I had gotten rid of the archive folder until i upgraded to Sierra. Now it won't go away & mail takes a long time to load, freezes up a lot.

Any other suggestions as how to make this folder disappear?

Highlight the folder. Mailbox>delete mailbox

Barry

It looks to be a folder that is from "Gal Mail." is that a Gmail-based account? Gmail has an "All Mail" folder.

This worked, thank you! (not OP, just set up a new user acct and had same problem) I tried to delete this folder directly once and deleted a lot of messages I wanted to keep. Thank you.

Choices are grayed out - not functional... WHY?

You have to set Auto-expunge to Off in the settings above that.

Eureka!!! Thank you for that!!!

Thanks Barney-15E. That worked like a charm!

This works for me.

I was so frustrated by this Archive folder which always show some unread message inside.

So this solution free me from it.

Thank you so much.