Re: [Gmail-Users] Sent Mail accidentally moved into Inbox

[Sean Murphy]

Try a search "in" the Inbox for emails "From: Me" . Then all you have to do is archive or remove the Inbox label.

On Sun, Jun 2, 2013 at 6:42 PM, Erik Yocum wrote:

I can't find a reference to this in the past posts - please give me a link if it's been covered?

At one point I was looking through the 'All Mail' label to find items I had archived w/o a label.  I moved all items in the All Mail to the Inbox.  Good news, I did find all the mail I wanted.  Bad news, I had items in my Sent showing in Inbox now.  If I delete the item from the Inbox, it deletes it from Sent also.

These are items that had no conversation - only outbound, no replies - for example my asking a friend to call me about something.  Conversation threads work just fine.  Conversation on or off, these 'new' items stay in the Inbox.

I don't do IMAP or POP, I don't have (never had) cc: bcc: turned on.  Mail I send today doesn't do this (I can find items in the Sent, nothing concurrent in the Inbox).  I don't have duplicates of anything else, only what was in the Sent Items, and only from dates prior to my accident.

Any suggestions on how I can clean it up?  I can live with it, it's just irritating to see 'Me' messages when I'm searching in the Inbox.  

Thanks all,

Erik

[Andy]

Try a search "in" the Inbox for emails "From: Me" . Then all you have to do is archive or remove the Inbox label.

Before you do that, you need to take yourself out of Conversation view first.  Otherwise, you will end up moving all the conversations out of the Inbox where others did reply to you, or where you replied to their messages.  Which you say you didn't want to do.

So do this:

-  Go into Settings and temporarily disable Conversation view.

-  Do your search for "From:me" (no space between the ':' and the "me"), and Archive the results.

-  Go back to Settings and re-enable Conversation view.

By the way, doing a search for "From:me" will also find messages from anyone with Apple's "@me.com" domain or anything similar.  I get a lot of those.  To avoid that, use "From:your_a...@gmail.com" (substituting your actual address) instead of "from:me".

Also by the way, there are no "duplicate" copies of messages in Gmail.  A message can appear to be in multiple places, because in reality there is only one copy of the message (which is in All Mail), but it can have labels that make it also show up in your Inbox, in Sent Mail, etc.  Hence, deleting a message from the Inbox ... or from anywhere ... deletes THE message.  There was only one copy of it.

Regards,

Andy