Comments on: Gmail Tips and Tricks – How to view archive emails in Gmail?

By: Zukisani Zamela

Zukisani Zamela — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:00:13 +0000

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

By: DSP

DSP — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:50:04 +0000

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

By: Jordan Tootoo

Jordan Tootoo — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:31:19 +0000

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?

By: Jordan Tootoo

Jordan Tootoo — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:30:12 +0000

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 I don`t know how to find the archive file and is there any way to delete what has been archived?

By: David Solomon

David Solomon — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 02:42:21 +0000

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

By: MadMarie

MadMarie — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 00:12:23 +0000

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?

By: gourab

gourab — Fri, 20 May 2011 11:08:25 +0000

thanks bro

By: neosize

neosize — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 03:06:04 +0000

Well written, thanks!

By: Martha

Martha — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 16:22:12 +0000

Not knowing I needed an addtional application I sent many e-mails to the button Archives. Where are they? Martha

By: Ahmad Khalid

Ahmad Khalid — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 11:01:44 +0000

it works well ,is there any trick which specially for the archive means any foldear?
Ahmad Khalid From Afghanistan kabul,

Thanks,
khalidhakimiar@yahoo.com

By: Manas Dash

Manas Dash — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 07:14:06 +0000

Realy help me to view my archived mail items

By: Lenny

Lenny — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 14:15:20 +0000

the tip worked out very well, thanks, L

By: Ros

Ros — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 17:39:14 +0000

how do you delete the mail in ‘archive’?

By: Bob

Bob — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 03:50:19 +0000

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.

By: Bob

Bob — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 03:44:59 +0000

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.

By: WA_side

WA_side — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 10:29:46 +0000

It wouldn't let me use "Archives" either, so I opted for "Archived".

Thanks for the tip.

By: Michael

Michael — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 06:07:07 +0000

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!

By: Fahad

Fahad — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 03:50:49 +0000

Can’t create archives filter
lable name is invalid

By: David Solomon

David Solomon — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:19:44 +0000

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

By: MHC

MHC — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:20:04 +0000

The new version does not seem to allow you to view ALL MAILS…