labels and conversations

[ItsMikeE]

I usually use GMail in conversation mode.

Suppose I send an email and label it with PersonalStuff

When a reply comes in I see it with labels Inbox and PersonalStuff

If I remove it from Inbox it displays as in PersonalStuff, but when I switch off Conversation View it turns out that it is not labelled PersonalStuff but is unlabelled.

How do I keep an entire conversation labelled?

And is there a way to organise old emails in this way without going through hundreds of emails one by one?

[Zack (Doc)]

There's the problem I have with conversations and labels (though I love both)... We tend to use conversation view, and it's the default, but labels are applied to individual messages.  So, with the view on, we see the whole thing under the label, but with the view off, the individuals only show where they are labeled.

The only fix I know of, and use, is to unlabel/relabel the conversation when a new message arrives.  It will then put the label on all the individual messages.  You don't have to do this message by message, but the only way I do it is conversation by conversation.

I never turn off conversation view, but I run label specific searches, which is impacted by this quirk as well.

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[ItsMikeE]

I created a new label called MoveTo

Then, in conversation view, for each label in turn I

• selected all conversations (including the option if there were more than 50)
• Moved all conversations to the new MovedTo label
• Moved them back to the original label

A bit time consuming, but nothing compared to moving one at a time

Seems to have worked as far as I can see