Gmail Tips and Tricks – How to view archive emails in Gmail?
Gmail offers a feature called Archive where one can move the unwanted emails and use it for feature. This is a great Gmail feature, instead of deleting a message, you can archive it and the email will move from your Inbox.
The emails moved to Archive are not visible in your Inbox or under any label. Gmail introduced a feature called All Mail, where you can view all the messages from your Inbox and Labels and from Archive.
Gmail counts the storage space used in Archive folder. When you do a search Gmail brings the files in Archive folder then you can decide to move to Inbox or label it.
So when you send an email to Archive, you can create a Label called Archives, this way when you click Archive Label, you can view all the emails in Archive folder.
Updated:
- Go to settings and click labels. you will find option SHOW / HIDE.
- Click ALL MAIL to show.
- Now you can see all the emails.
Note: You cannot create a Label called Archive but create Archives, and assign the label before you Archive.
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The new version does not seem to allow you to view ALL MAILS…
Go to settings and click labels. you will find option SHOW / HIDE.
click ALL MAIL to show.
Now you can see all the emails.
Dave
Can’t create archives filter
lable name is invalid
I use a lot of google apps and have a Droid, but I have to say…Google desperately needs to hire some decent UI designers. Every time I want to do something semi out of the ordinary (like view my Archive) I have to google for the super-secret hidden answer. Maybe it's their way of increasing ad revenue. This is true not just in Gmail, but in the browser, the Android OS, docs, everywhere!
It wouldn't let me use "Archives" either, so I opted for "Archived".
Thanks for the tip.
Like MHC says “Then new version does not allow you to view all mails.
I clicked show for ALL MAIL and I do not see any of my archived emails.
Sorry, got it. I was still on “inbox”. You have to click “All Mail” on the left side after you change the label settings to “show”.
Thanks.
how do you delete the mail in ‘archive’?
the tip worked out very well, thanks, L
Realy help me to view my archived mail items
it works well ,is there any trick which specially for the archive means any foldear?
Ahmad Khalid From Afghanistan kabul,
Thanks,
khalidhakimiar@yahoo.com
Not knowing I needed an addtional application I sent many e-mails to the button Archives. Where are they? Martha
Well written, thanks!
thanks bro
I just put a doc in Archive and can’t retrieve?
How do I do this or is it gone forever, went in All mail, not there, rebooted, not there;
So where did it go?
I do not understand your question because you said, you have put a Doc in Archive.
You can only Archive email or emails with attachment. If it is Google Docs you need to visit Google Docs page and see “All items” there.
Let me know if this helps
I put a really important file in the archive file by accent. I don`t know how to find the archive file and is there any way to delete what has been archived?
I put a really important email in the archived file and i don’t know how to find it. Is there anyway to delete what is in the archived file?
Yes, this posts explains how you can view that.
Enable the Label ALL Mail first, then do a search. or search [ in:all mail ]
You can delete what you want and delete it from trash for permanent deletion
in the search field on the top write this:
“label:all -label:inbox -label:sent -label:spam -label:chats”
This displays all of the messages but excludes messages in your normal inbox, sent, spam and chats… What should be left should be purely your archived messages.
You can also include this “-label:trash” to exclude messages that are in your recycle bin