On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 7:51 AM, bill hansen <[email protected]> wrote:
Thanks Jeff - but my problem isn't that I want to delete only part of an > email, or that I don't understand what "delete" means. > ... > You can never delete part of an email. That's impossible. What Jeff was referring to, was deleting ONE email, versus deleting an entire conversation of emails. The "delete" button near the top of the screen always deletes the entire conversation, all at once. The entire conversation means that the original message and ALL replies to it, will be deleted. (I'm guessing this is what you meant but you just stated it not the same way.) If I were prescient enough that I knew, every single time, that I'd want to > return to an email on a later day, I could Archive each email I receive > into a separate folder > ... > Or you could just Archive all of them and not worry about "separate folders". You can still locate the message at a later date by searching for it, or by opening All Mail and scanning down the list. And by the way, as long as you have Conversation view enabled (which is the default setting), all messages in the conversation appear grouped together and you can't really send individual messages into different folders. They would appear as if the entire Conversation is in all of those folders. (In reality they might not be; but whenever you open one message, you open the entire Conversation, which could include messages that were not sent to that folder -- er, label.) Andy -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Gmail-Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/gmail-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
