Emptied Archive = Emptied ALL mail!

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Emptied my Archive (select all + delete)

2 minutes later ALL of my Inbox e-mails, all of my sent emails are GONE, only thing left is trash.

Using gmail.

What happened??

Fred in despair

Posted on Mar 1, 2018 9:43 PM

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Answer 1

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When you archive a message: The message will come back to your inbox when someone replies to it.

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Answer 2

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In Gmails ridiculously non-standard implementation of IMAP, the "archive" is actually the same thing as "all mail".

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Answer 3

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Have you checked the Gmail web site to see if the e-mails are there? They aren't in the Trash?

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Answer 4

Noting in Gmail. Only one month in Trash. Recovered most of what I wanted. Anything older than one month is gone. Will live with it.

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